Example sentences of "[vb base] [subord] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 2 | I think they 've built They 've opened London offices , many of them , if those offices grow so they acquire the sort of breadth and depth of experience in the relevant areas that the big firms have got and at the moment er they may not have , then of course they 'll be more and more competitive . |
| 3 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 4 | The greatly affluent in sumptuous equipage , as they pass the cheerful dwelling of the careless rustic … involuntarily sigh as they behold the modest care-excluding mansion of the lowly contented ; and often from the belief that solid comfort can be found only in retirement , forsake their noisy abodes , to unload their oppressing inquietudes in the tranquil retreat of the rural shelter . |
| 5 | Wait till they play the Italians or the Spaniards , they will die . |
| 6 | Would have they put when they put the boiler in cos the boiler w we 've had in three years . |
| 7 | Everything , the railings you know , when they put when they painted the railings , the burned the old paint off , the new paint on . |
| 8 | Everything , the railings you know , when they put when they painted the railings , the burned the old paint off , the new paint on . |
| 9 | The house was full of moths because they had left the doors and windows open after they put the lights on . |
| 10 | I have noticed that even people who claim that everything is predestined and that we can do nothing to change it look before they cross the road . |
| 11 | Fans weep as they see the torment on the faces of their countrymen . |
| 12 | Look when they kicked the ball at , they could quite as easily kicked it at tree . |
| 13 | Erm , they 've demolished all the north side , you know what used to be the dynamics and that 's all gone , it 's gon na become , you know , it 's not very , that 's becoming a , well , in the process of becoming a business park , but I mean , mean well , I mean , it , it , it 's all executive erm , and you know business stuff and on the surface , you know , we 're still reasonably busy with , with that sort of thing , but erm , no that , they have , the only one four six we see now is just on the company shuttle just you know until they complete the close down of the factory , they shuttle them up to Woodford , er , er , and back every day . |
| 14 | At one time , two-pipe house drainage systems were designed to keep waste water and soil water completely separate until they entered the underground drains and to prevent ‘ drain air ’ entering the house : in Victorian times this was thought to be responsible for all manner of ills . |
| 15 | In this treatment a variety of techniques is used to elicit the language learners already know before they reach the " View , Listen and Compare " stage . |
| 16 | So as the roof was all secure before they blasted the centre out . |
| 17 | ‘ How can people just talk because they like the sound of their own voices and never think of the people around them ? ’ |
| 18 | have the language helper say any two words from the original lists , and decide whether they have the same sound in them or not |
| 19 | And these people decide whether they want the place , and the ideal place for them . |
| 20 | hide I suppose when they see the |
| 21 | Tony Benn to Jimmy Young when asked about Neil Kinnock 's Radio 2 debut I 'M asked how I feel when they get the questions wrong and lose everything , and I say I try not to laugh . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm asked how I feel when they get the questions wrong and lose everything and I say I try not to laugh . ’ |
| 23 | I ask if they think the black girl will come out soon . |
| 24 | Professionals often intervene before they understand the problem in full and so fail . |
| 25 | I wonder if they charge the same prices for their take away as for sitting at the table . |
| 26 | I never sold a garment or got an order from this source , I wonder if they saw the light of day . |
| 27 | Some policy-makers also wonder if they did the right thing in opting for ‘ managed competition ’ . |
| 28 | If any wonder whether they made the right decision to come home and marry a British man , Dolly Howard who danced round the world had the wittiest appreciation of the difference between the continental men and the boys back home : |
| 29 | Little did those two cricketers — the veteran Bill Lister and his friend John Beanlands — think when they instituted the tradesmen 's match that it would have assumed such proportions as it had . |
| 30 | ‘ Pigs can fly already , or so the druggies think when they see the police helicopters . ’ |