Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer . |
| 2 | Miss Sherwin said : ‘ In the front bedroom they found a quantity of uniforms , two empty gun cases and a bag full of ammunition . |
| 3 | In the one-way mirror treatment , when males were unaware they were being watched , they were more aggressive towards infants than in the clear screen treatment and as a result they received a drubbing from the female . |
| 4 | As a result they produced a document called an " Initial Feasibility Study " . |
| 5 | As a result they offer a lifetime guarantee on their income bond which fixes the return at the level on the day you buy . |
| 6 | As a result they talk a lot of bullshit about how this is their generation 's answer to LSD ( It 's our final frontier ’ ) and also call up the memories of past sins and traumas — playground racism , the suicide of a Viet vet father , some modish videotape voyeurism , bullying and murder even — which then return to haunt them in the real world . |
| 7 | In the locked glove compartment they found a £3,137.33 Access bill . |
| 8 | Veal they have a steak in the future udderwise ? |
| 9 | On their heads they wore a steel bonnet , either a ‘ salade ’ like a rimless upturned bowl , a peaked version known as a burgonet , or a morion with curved brim and raised centrepiece like a cockscomb . |
| 10 | Maybe after a few thousand years of marmot for breakfast , dinner and tea they fancied a change . |
| 11 | ‘ In areas of the US such as Arizona they spend a lot of money making sure the product is moved off the shelf within three to five days or brought back . ’ |
| 12 | After a short search they found a half brick made of concrete and went over to the water through . |
| 13 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 14 | The disciplines a Designer works by demand some very special qualities — in effect they demand a specialist in many wide-ranging fields , coupled with virtual Sherlock Holmes powers of observation . |
| 15 | On saturday they lost a game they had to win , the score at Kingsholm was Gloucester nine , London Irish ten |
| 16 | Next Saturday they have a home game with Everton , who are also struggling to score , and receive West Ham , a fixture Mr Howe describes as ‘ interesting ’ . |
| 17 | On the basis of these data they proposed a rank structure for these lessons as follows : |
| 18 | The challenges facing schools are considered in detail throughout this book but in essence they require a management response . |
| 19 | John was so sure of an encore that he rehearsed the girls in a burlesque version of a quartet from the Gaiety Theatre in London , and in a later scene they performed a coconut dance — a long-established feature of theatre and street dance of the time . |
| 20 | Florence and Rome are stunning to visit at any time of the year — but in the winter they have a charm of their own . |
| 21 | In the mid-1950s they had a sum of £600,000 outstanding on their sales ledger which was far in excess of any other asset . |
| 22 | How will the public be able to gain access to the information that by law they have a right to see ? |
| 23 | However the crash crew person asked the instructor to accompany her in the fire vehicle , and on arrival at the vehicle they asked a bystander to raise the alarm . |
| 24 | No wonder they like a dram at every house . ’ |
| 25 | As the corporals head for lunch they pass a recruit from the TA platoon shepherding her visitors toward the museum , Where she is convinced that she has found a photograph of her mother , Who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 . |
| 26 | In return for their hard work they get a chance to fulfil a lifetime ambition . |
| 27 | They stopped it see , so I did n't gain anything out of it , me mates at work they made a collection for me in their way . |
| 28 | After calling for a return to work they organised a series of campaigns , about censorship , the campaign for the eight hour working day . |
| 29 | At an upstairs window they present a life size dummy head : firm jaw , aquiline nose , shining complexion . |
| 30 | Now you say well why do a U-turn I see no reason why because they done a few U-turns on the child benefit they done a U-turn , they picked it up and then blocked it . |