Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably in all innocence they began to use the word Baal to describe the Lord God . |
| 2 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 3 | Down the Boarman they 've had a three , three offers of Hamper Agency for next year . |
| 4 | It was a tough job for the judges , but after tasting thousands of cups of tea they 've announced a winner . |
| 5 | Not your fault they had to hire a bloody crane ! |
| 6 | and er , in a , and then Top Gear they want to do an interview with him for er , erm racing for the disabled . |
| 7 | She crunched through toast and marmalade while Rory had a shower , then said they had to hurry down to breakfast , she 'd need the bulk to make sure a hangover did not develop from the great variety of booze they 'd sunk the night before . |
| 8 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 9 | Startled by the systematic destruction of the force they had helped the Iraqis to build , the military critics have since grown bolder . |
| 10 | But in their clumsy efforts to break the steering lock they had broken the steering itself . |
| 11 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 12 | Through the worst of the winter they have had no proper play area ; the old school building is deteriorating at a rapid rate and they have also had to find room to store the furniture for the new school which has already been delivered . |
| 13 | In other cases where British judges have been unable to reconcile Community and national law they have thrown the burden of responsibility back upon the government and suggested that the applicants sue the government for breach of a Community obligation under Case C-6190 and C-9190 Francovich and Bonifaci v Italy [ 1992 ] IRLR 84 . |
| 14 | Under his influence they have enjoyed an unprecedented era of glory winning 25 cups in seven years , including five successive Wembley victories and a hat-trick of Cup and League doubles |
| 15 | Like all Trolls they will eat anything and through force of circumstance they tend to eat a lot of rocks . |
| 16 | No wonder they had let the army take over this area ; it was worth nothing for farming . |
| 17 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 18 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 19 | The Chinese lunch they 'd had the secretary phone out for lay on the coffee table like a child 's experiments with putty and paint and designer ooze . |
| 20 | By the time England won another Test they had played a further thirty , plus two that were rain-restricted and one washed out altogether . |
| 21 | Since nineteen eighty two when they took away the related earnings from the unemployment benefit they have introduced a further nine retrograde steps to the plight of the unemployed and now the proposals as has already been pointed out they now have a look , because there 's a fifty billion pound shortfall at how they can best tackle the sick and make them pay , as well as people who are struggling to keep a roof over their head . |
| 22 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 23 | Under the 1944 Education Act they have had a duty to provide this for numerous categories of children : the blind , partially sighted , deaf , partially hearing , physically handicapped , delicate , maladjusted , epileptic , educationally subnormal , children with speech defects , and the autistic . |
| 24 | From the 1968 Health Services and Public Health Act they have had the powers to promote the welfare of old people . |
| 25 | But one night — sleeping out — may just help some homeless people get the help they need to find a home of their own . |
| 26 | Yes , yes , now that group have come into me and two weeks after they 've worn the hairpiece they 've got a job after two and half years of not finding work , so what do you say to that ? |
| 27 | With great regret they decided to abandon the project in view of the ever-increasing cost . |
| 28 | All around her men 's eyes are avidly forsaking their embarrassed girlfriends for the fantasy they have paid the go-go dancer to concoct of herself ; the room contains a crowd of men united in desire and fear of possession of women who are separated from each other by bars . |
| 29 | But without that heater they 've got no hot water , no nothing ! |
| 30 | By contraction they tend to compress the segment and are therefore important in respiratory movements . |