Example sentences of "[vb base] they [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately for Gower 's tour , India quickly returned to calm after Mrs Gandhi 's death and while a nerve-frazzled team lost the Bombay Test they overcome adversity to win the series 2-1 . |
| 2 | They do n't understand about spies and I expect they eat merchants . ’ |
| 3 | I expect they made love with the lights out . |
| 4 | Oxfordshire Health Authority say they regret Keith Atkinson 's disabilities , but they deny any negligence by staff in 1967 . |
| 5 | Many UN members from ‘ Third World ’ nations , now say they saw January 15 as a diplomatic rather than military deadline . |
| 6 | They did , they say they got water hammer we went into the ladies toilets and one door , one cubicle was shut and there was this loud drumming noise and I said to Brenda perhaps it 's an alarm signal perhaps somebody on the other side of that door has been taken ill and has pressed some sort of alarm signal , anyway we went out and they said oh no it 's always making that noise ! |
| 7 | They fall into three groups : ( 1 ) eight working-class women who say initially that they ‘ like ’ or ‘ do n't mind ’ housework , but turn out to be dissatisfied with it ; ( 2 ) two middle-class women who follow the same pattern ; and ( 3 ) two middle-class women who say they dislike housework but are satisfied with it . |
| 8 | While most middle-class women say they dislike housework and most working-class women say they like or do n't mind it , there are some in each class group who deviate from this pattern . |
| 9 | People who say they sell drugs because they do n't have enough money , I think they 're lying . |
| 10 | ‘ There are these witnesses in the Rosy Crown pub say they heard Tim Cheever say he 'd like to clear the Pitts away , and a man who says he heard Flo Coster say , Do it with poison . |
| 11 | Immigration officials say they help channel drug-runners and undocumented workers into remote places , where they are more easily picked up . |
| 12 | Police chiefs say they had evidence of drug dealing on the site , and had met with violence when they approached before . |
| 13 | The police say they had reports of 15 people barracaded inside , and called for backup . |
| 14 | erm , do n't , they just do n't think cos our kids you know they 'll have money erm , say they had money and bought them presents |
| 15 | ‘ That smelled bad even from here , but now you say they had proof it was phoney and did n't tell the Home Sec ? |
| 16 | Most students say they enjoy reading . |
| 17 | People do n't mind being referred if it 's something that is genuinely but say they phone Leeds and Leeds do n't know and Leeds refer them to a number they think it is and then they refer to a third number then somebody gets . |
| 18 | Some say they preferred Tom Jones before his nose job . |
| 19 | But senior officers say they need help from the rural community . |
| 20 | who say they need help . |
| 21 | Watch out for workmen who say they need access to your home to check something or make urgent repairs . |
| 22 | TWO Kurdish refugees will be deported this afternoon to Turkey — where they say they face persecution and torture — unless they win a last-minute reprieve . |
| 23 | Pub landlords say they face bankruptcy because they 're being fined thousands of pounds by their brewery for failing to meet sales targets . |
| 24 | David and wife Carol who run a food and tourism business say they face ruin over the pipeline plans . |
| 25 | Thames Valley police say they visited Lady Blandford 's home in Kiddington today following a call but no-one was there . |
| 26 | Thames Valley police say they visited Lady Blandford 's home in Kiddington today following a call but no-one was there . |
| 27 | But lots of people travel in the snow-washed variety — especially cocky skiers who say they wear denim on the slopes because they never fall over . |
| 28 | ‘ An awful lot of people say they want things done but they are reluctant to stand up and be counted , ’ she said . |
| 29 | After years of striving to produce computer graphics that look like human drawn animations or live photography , the bosses in the film and TV business now say they want computer graphics to look more like graphics . |
| 30 | When I ask the people of the estate what they want from this election some say they want Cheviot to rebuild it and others that it would be better grassed over . |