Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morality and religion open the door to oppression but in focusing so sharply on the woman 's role they make her the central symbol of the culture . |
| 2 | And they told me about Azul , in Jersey , and before that I think it was before that they showed me the forensic photographs of all of them : Bissett skewered on the railings , grotesque and spread and limp ; the blood-smeared vibrator used on the retired judge , Jamieson ; the drained shapeless white body of Persimmon , tied to his grid above a pool of blood , then nothing when there should have been something ; then what was left of Sir Rufus Carter , blackened bones , distorted and bent , the black skull 's jaw hinged down in a blind scream but the flesh all gone very much a dental-records job and it was all black , the nails , the wood and the bones too but it 's their mouths their jaws I remember , their silent screams , hanging slack or jammed open and it gets worse because they show me the fucking video they show me the video they think I made or that I think they think I made but I did n't ; they make me watch it and it 's horrific ; there 's a man and he 's dressed in black or dark blue and he has a gorilla mask on and he keeps sucking on this little bottle he 's carrying which must be helium because it gives him that baby voice disguising his own voice and he has this fat little guy strapped to a chrome seat , his mouth taped , one arm tied down onto the arm of the chair , shirt rolled up and the little guy 's shrieking as hard as he can but it sounds quiet because the noise is having to come down his nose while the man in the gorilla mask looks from the camera to the guy in the seat and holds up this huge fucking syringe like something from a nightmare from an old movie from a horror film and I can feel my heart beating wildly because that 's what this is . |
| 3 | But do n't call the law unless they give me the black spot , or if you see the seaman with one leg — he 's worse than any of them . ’ |
| 4 | Frequently they give her the exact day they decided life was not worth living , and sometimes even the time of day the decision was made . |
| 5 | They give you the immediate impression of being a band here to stay : one that 'll potentially outlast changes in the musical landscape , without turning into listed institutions like Simple Minds . |
| 6 | It is a long way from the post-punk Big Black noise of old that first did the rounds of Ireland , which they confirm themselves the following day when , nursing Alps-sized hangovers , the threesome spill out stories of their past as we head through New York to the photo-shoot in the Bronx . |
| 7 | ‘ The MCC made a profit of £568,000 last year , it had administrative expenses of £2.2 million which included Pounds 47,000 spent on ‘ hospitality ’ — now they begrudge us the paltry sum of Pounds 17,000 for a worthy cause for the good of cricket . |
| 8 | They know what the other thing is . |
| 9 | She spurred close to Lord Wyatt and spoke in a voice full of soft malice : ‘ They know what the bloody hell it is ! |
| 10 | Well for my own part I think that one can educate students as far as possible in terms of what appropriate behaviour is , and I think that you can police students with disciplinary measures when it 's absolutely clear that when they know what the inappropriate behaviour is they nevertheless make a choice that they 're going to move beyond those boundaries of appropriateness . |
| 11 | They set themselves the difficult task of disentangling this cosmic dust from the earthly sort . |
| 12 | They decide what the annual interest on these will be , typically 6–7% in a large union . |
| 13 | three questions later they ask them the very question they just answered |
| 14 | No , but I mean they do it the easy way the |
| 15 | But they do it the other way as well . |
| 16 | They call her the Regal Lily . |
| 17 | They call her The Green Goddess , and Queen of the Greens ; they like to photograph her in supermarkets against the Ecover , looking wholesome and fresh , youthful but still somehow serious . |
| 18 | yeah , I mean in Ireland they , fair enough , they call it the unionist party |
| 19 | They call it the Little Vestry . ’ |