Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As personal traits and gifts , as the fruits of experience or as the outcome of maturity they remain essentially a private matter , not amenable to management training but open to approaches which might be based on good practice in counselling or on well-handled programmes about the development of interpersonal skills . |
| 2 | Remember the communiqué they put out a couple of days ago ? |
| 3 | Getting to the Health Centre was a tedious business involving a bus and a clanking ride for a few stops on the underground and Erika was glad to find her way to it , jammed among the usual blocks of flats , although at that time of night they had rather a festive air with every window lighted . |
| 4 | David Penney the scorer and after what happened against Portsmouth last week they realised even a 3-goal lead is n't safe these days . |
| 5 | Friday nights are hot at Apples and Snakes — every week they bring on a new lineup of outstanding poets and performers . |
| 6 | Rhodes ( 1981 , p. 17 ) observes that ‘ although central government has an impressive list of controls at its disposal they constitute only a potential for control ’ . |
| 7 | As they left the store they picked up a copy of Allied 's 1991/1992 brochure and found the carpet was normally priced at £9.99 . |
| 8 | They can go upstairs to the first floor , almost directly above this passage ; in this case they walk up a gentle incline and arrive at the west door leading from location 54 . |
| 9 | Dams will not be built , and roads will not be laid in case they wipe out a rare plant species that could yield a new organic hair conditioner for Westerners to enjoy . |
| 10 | Dub says : ‘ On the field they worked out a series of calls and signals for the defenders , but Jan still struggles to make conversation . |
| 11 | In summer they set up a video camera on Berry Head near Torquay to show close-up views of cliff-dwelling birds . |
| 12 | That way they raised rather a lot of money . |
| 13 | Along the way they picked up a Swedish girl , Eva Vincett , who had married an Englishman , so then there were three ! |
| 14 | Does he realise that the islanders have run the ferry for many years and that until this year they received not a penny of subsidy , unlike the Scottish ferries ? |
| 15 | Work on the house still continues , and each year they take on a new project . |
| 16 | But in the second order system they take on a different set of structural features . |
| 17 | Though she was huddled in the corner as far from him as she could get , the car was n't very big , and every time they went round a corner his thigh and shoulder pressed against hers . |
| 18 | Fernando had beaten her every time they played so a practice session on her own might be a good idea . |
| 19 | they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past . |
| 20 | But at lambing time they take on a total change of character and they can sometimes become very aggressive . |
| 21 | All the way out to Keller 's house they kept up a ceaseless flow of questions about the Channings and the bruises on my head . |
| 22 | When they reached their van they drove off a short distance in case I was observing them . |
| 23 | However , unemployment in agriculture consistently runs above the national average and while certain specialist workers may be in short supply they form only a small part of the labour force . |
| 24 | ‘ The meals are very different from what you would get at home , but once they are brought to the boil they give off a most delicious smell . ’ |