Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 2 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 3 | When , however , they borrow them from other disciplines , they must expect either that the chronological fit is bad ( if they insist on matching the style ) or that the stylistic fit is bad ( if they match the chronology ) . |
| 4 | People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times . |
| 5 | The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium . |
| 6 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 7 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 8 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 9 | I have to track them down cos they put them in obscure places sometimes , but there are conference notice boards . |
| 10 | ‘ They put us under tremendous pressure . |
| 11 | Er , the recommendation to those committees was that they should treat the paper as a basis for consultation , it was on that basis that they approved it , it was my impression that they support it in general terms . |
| 12 | The process may sound wasteful , but they conduct it with great economy . |
| 13 | In general , there is evidence that children who have developed a sensitivity to cow 's milk may become sensitive to soya proteins as well , if they consume them in large quantities . |
| 14 | They view it through other men 's eyes . |
| 15 | It turns out they read it in sensational newspapers at the supermarket checkout counter . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Type L ’ isoleucine in the living organism and ‘ type D ’ isoleucine in the dead organism have almost the same chemical characters , but when they are hit by light they deflect it in different ways . |
| 17 | ‘ That 's what they teach you in military service , is it ? ’ remarked his father , from one end of the table . |
| 18 | They wake you at three-hourly intervals all night long . |
| 19 | They pass it to other managers or other parts of the organization who may have a suitable vacancy for you . |
| 20 | Providing they entertain us with stupendous performances , who cares if sponsors want to make them millionaires . |
| 21 | Now they use them for arable cash crops and special market garden crops . |
| 22 | They use it for official purposes and are likely to continue to do so for some considerable while . |
| 23 | Cereal farmers are using less nitrogen fertiliser and have changed the way that they apply it in direct response to concern over nitrogen pollution , according to a report form the Home Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 24 | At least they do it with considerable wit . |
| 25 | ‘ And they reccommend me to other people . |
| 26 | One might not expect sawing a Renault 5 in half to constitute part of an electronics research project , but that 's what they call it at sub-basement level , below the Strand . |
| 27 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 28 | That is natural : they identify it with lousy government . |
| 29 | A Negro dies of heart failure , they blame it on racial segregation . |
| 30 | For some philosophers of religion , it is this attitude towards morality , inbuilt as they see it into human beings , that makes theism necessary . |