Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb base] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 2 | The significant event is the landing of Goodbody 's patrol behind enemy lines in North Africa , where they set up an ‘ advanced-area cricket pitch ’ , for the purpose of ‘ morale ’ and to impress a visiting military VIP as ‘ a small patch of sanity ’ . |
| 3 | The children , their father Jim and other members of the first UK medical expedition to Everest , were on Aonach Mor , near Fort William , yesterday where they set up an imitation base camp for the benefit of the press and potential sponsors . |
| 4 | This method brings library users into the actual building , where they carry out a series of practical tasks concerned with location of materials , photocopying , use of catalogues , borrowing routines and so on . |
| 5 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 6 | There were so many journalists covering the Orkney story that they set up a pool system and took it in turns to go in . |
| 7 | It was not until 1988 that they set out a detailed strategy for carrying out a series of experiments to confirm their preliminary observations that nuclear fusion may be possible at room temperature inside metals . |
| 8 | The second , and by no means less important , purpose , is that they open up a transmission channel for information from the recipient . |
| 9 | Some use such a sophisticated system that they build up a detailed picture of their surroundings , effectively " seeing " with sound instead of light . |
| 10 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 11 | They pop up and over it , and when they land on the other side and they slow down a bit . |
| 12 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 13 | " Free ale all round tonight lads ! " he told them , and they put up a cheer of delight . |
| 14 | On my third shelf , I had put all my puppets and they put on a small puppet show for me . |
| 15 | They discovered it had been hired by a Swiss honeymoon couple and they put out an alert for them . |
| 16 | And they always have a holiday abroad and they go out a lot , good social life . |
| 17 | The male fertilises them and they roll down a moist groove and into the brood sac . |
| 18 | They start off on a barrow in a market and they build up an enormous industry . |
| 19 | If they draw out an enemy charge they 've probably served their purpose . |
| 20 | If they hand in an idea , by mail or in the suggestion box , they do so anonymously and the idea is a joke or an impertinence . |
| 21 | Roy Keane , Niall Quinn , Ray Houghton , Steve Staunton and Kevin Moran will all incur a one-match ban if they pick up a second yellow card tomorrow . |
| 22 | Machines that are considered ‘ out of the way ’ in a corner of the room will be relatively more unsociable if they block off a doorway or interrupt television viewing . |
| 23 | What you gon na d right if they bring out a twelve hundred plus , so what . |
| 24 | If you know certain children are going to have difficulty in separating from parents , then it helps if they bring along a favourite toy . |
| 25 | If they send out a document that weighs a kilo for tapes and they sent that one , they 're losing twenty |
| 26 | In an ideal situation , flat and house sharers will have a less-anxious living space if they work out a few basic rules beforehand , which they all agree to comply with later . |
| 27 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 28 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 29 | Such questions seem both searching and naive , searching because they open up a Pandora 's box of issues about the nature and structure of knowledge , naive because they are not usually asked , and doubtless can not be answered , in quite such a simple way . |
| 30 | There are now so many bikes in the city centre there 's a bike-park next-door to the library where cyclists can have their bikes repaired while they take out a book or go shopping . |