Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Difficult for bread-and-butter manufacturers , never mind the makers of cars so far off the scale ( up to £80,000 for the 600SEL Merc and twice that for the Bentley ) that by any rational thinking they belong to a different era altogether — one without recession , a war just over and all the current uncertainties . |
| 2 | To Joseph 's startled ears they sounded like a simultaneous volley of a thousand rifle shots . |
| 3 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 4 | And , although they were all enjoyable excursions , to Shiona they felt like a dose of purgatory . |
| 5 | Stick foods are currently very popular — with a lot of air in the mix they float like a Li-Lo . |
| 6 | Such changing adviser practices seem to have had an impact upon arts advisers which can still be observed in the tension they feel between a commitment to the professional development of the general class teacher and the supervision of centralized performance activities ( Tweddell , 1988 ) . |
| 7 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 8 | On Friday they met in a mosque with the men from Zliten , demanded 6000 dinars ( £11,800 at the then official exchange rate , £6500 at the going rate in the free market ) , and received assurances of payment . |
| 9 | He became enormously interested in these papers and the effect they had at a time when many people thought Britain was on the brink of popular revolution . |
| 10 | Towards nightfall they came upon a pair of small caves , which Miss Fergusson compared to the pressing of God 's thumb into the mountainside . |
| 11 | In the third term they embark on a general survey of the History of Medicine and Science which allows them to put other subjects which the study into their historical context . |
| 12 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 13 | In winter they act as a safety valve when the two straight bordering rivers , dug in the seventeenth century by a Dutchman , Cornelius Vermuyden , become swollen with rain and overflow . |
| 14 | It explains why judges must conceive the body of law they administer as a whole rather than as a set of discrete decisions that they are free to make or amend one by one , with nothing but a strategic interest in the rest . |
| 15 | The so-called ‘ fourth generation ’ were caught in the middle and it is no wonder they suffered from a ‘ clash in values ’ described in a number of articles discussing youth ‘ problems ’ . |
| 16 | You have that choice , that chance to do that for my patients and I tell you , to be with you , to be part of you , I 'm as a , I learn for you , I think of you , and I can just tell you , I wish you all the best , but I wo n't forget your responsibility to help the medical profession to make , with the work they do for a better tomorrow possible , due to your work , your hard attempts to give that financial ability through the best insurance policies on the market today . |
| 17 | They fetched a lightly padded patchwork quilt from the Centaur Room , a pink candlewick from the Room Without a Name , two of white cotton from the Room of Astonishment and a counterpane of heavy yellow satin they found in a cupboard in the Pincushion Room . |
| 18 | Less than twenty miles out of Aberdeen they ran into a blizzard . |
| 19 | Queensland 's short , mild winter was slipping easily into a vibrant spring , and tropical plants and shrubs were beginning to fill the gardens they passed with a colourful bounty of flowers . |
| 20 | Punters pay for the numbers of crosses they mark on a picture of a football match . |
| 21 | And they presented him with video equipment they bought for a children 's charity . |
| 22 | Allen asked , and as though to point his question they came to a place where another track came in from the right . |
| 23 | And by William Lovett , remember : one of that articulate elite which attended the debates at the Rotunda ; one who , knowing full well how partial , minimal and divisive the Whigs ' proposals were , was compelled by the polarisation of opinion they induced to a course of action contributing much to the great flood of support for them ; one who was a founder of the Chartist Movement formed in the wake of the Reform Act . |
| 24 | Laura was admitted to Birmingham Children 's Hospital for specialist treatment where Mrs Allen maintained a 24-hour vigil during the 12 weeks they waited for a liver to become available . |
| 25 | At one point they came across a patch that was filled with every different kind of mushroom that they knew — white ones that grew like jagged clumps of coral , thick orange ones that oozed blue liquid when their stalks were broken , delicate saucer-shaped ones called ba uka , meaning bowl . |
| 26 | Gatfield is still surprised by the record-buying public 's assumption that the first record they purchase by a new act must be that artist 's first release . |
| 27 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 28 | THERE can be few musicals that so vividly evoke the era they portray as A Slice of Saturday Night , a 60s skit on teenage passions set in Eric ‘ Rubberlegs ’ De Vene 's Club A Go-Go . |
| 29 | Individuals will also vary in the importance they attach to a particular time-cue . |
| 30 | It is notable that the US Congress has recently granted President Bush fast-track authority to negotiate both the Uruguay Round and the North American Free Trade Area , showing the importance they attach to a favourable outcome in both . |