Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer .
2 After we 'd done five songs they turned the disco on dead loud . ’
3 On the far side they followed the river about a mile downstream until they reached the same narrow point where the temporary bridge is constructed every year .
4 The celebratory boom of cannon echoing from another part of the citadel marked the end of the ceremony and the emperor descended slowly from his throne to shake hands in European fashion with the Resident Superior , and side by side they led the way into an antechamber .
5 And from somewhere on the other side they heard the sound they all dreaded : HAR-ROOMF !
6 As a first experiment they improved the lighting for the test group and were pleased to find that productivity improved , but puzzled to find that productivity also improved in the control group .
7 After checking this balancing they increased the current further to three times the starting value , and discovered an excess heat output of ten per cent over and above what they could account for going in .
8 As control methods they have the advantage of low capital outlay , although there is the ongoing need to purchase the masking and counteracting agent , as and when necessary , and case of application , being particularly valuable where other methods can not be applied .
9 On Tuesday they spent the day together , and he proposed .
10 When Diana gave the false name to secretaries in phone calls to the London offices of Wright , Son and Pepper they had no idea it was the princess on the other end of the line .
11 Miss Sherwin said : ‘ In the front bedroom they found a quantity of uniforms , two empty gun cases and a bag full of ammunition .
12 They told Mr Adams they welcomed the statement that Sinn Fein was committed to work towards ‘ bringing the conflict to an end ’ and that he was ‘ prepared to take political risk ’ .
13 At first Peter 's parents thought he was still suffering from a recent bout of whooping cough , but when he started a second bottle of C-vit they noticed the drink had fermented , turning some of the juice into alcohol .
14 Throughout Rough 's grey day at Ayr they chanted an age old football insult to the tune of My Darling Clementine — ‘ Where 's the mince-beef , where 's the mince-beef Alan Rough ?
15 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 .
16 The goldsmiths noticed that a large proportion of the gold was not withdrawn from the vaults and as a result they seized the opportunity of making profits by granting loans through the issue of ‘ receipts ’ in excess of actual gold deposits .
17 As a result they produced a document called an " Initial Feasibility Study " .
18 As a result they offer a lifetime guarantee on their income bond which fixes the return at the level on the day you buy .
19 And as a result they have the self-confidence which comes from knowing that if you have made it once , you can make it again .
20 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 .
21 Today and in the future they regard the borders of all states in Europe as inviolable as they stand on the day of the signing of this treaty .
22 The Canto as a whole , whatever its incidental obscurities , is plainly concerned with the phenomenon of ‘ the living dead ’ , focussed in part , as Ronald Bush has invaluably pointed out , on the old men , Clemenceau , Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson , legislating at Versailles for a future they had no part in .
23 They show very clearly that the Government are ensuring that , while we may reduce the personnel numbers in our armed forces , we are increasing the relative proportion of funds spent on their equipment to ensure that in the future they have the equipment that they need to perform the tasks that we set them .
24 Once a young person has achieved Compact goals they have an entitlement to a worthwhile Compact job which they can " cash in " when they are ready .
25 Roger , 36 , and a Tory supporter , estimated that after those years of slog and sweat they had debts of £20,000 they had no hope of paying .
26 When the police stopped the car they found the seals in the bag .
27 In the locked glove compartment they found a £3,137.33 Access bill .
28 Veal they have a steak in the future udderwise ?
29 He saw the pond they called the lake and the grey bulk of the Mithraeum on the farther shore .
30 And really he 's got to , I mean , you know , alright with work wise I mean he 's got to take even if , I mean the kids these days , I mean , even at Neil 's age , I mean you know , I 've come the conclusion now these kids they think the world owes them something !
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