Example sentences of "[vb base] they [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rough guesses suggest they number round 300,000 and all predictions are that their numbers will increase . |
| 2 | They 're told that the amount of medicine they take us under their control and I usually suggest they experiment after two or three days with either increasing the amount of the dose e.g. two squirts instead of one or taking the remedy twice a day . |
| 3 | Once hatched , they begin to feed on zooplankton and as they grow they prey on larger species and they are even cannibalistic . |
| 4 | As they grow they merge into one another . |
| 5 | Most Chief Education Officers say they come across fewer than one case a year , thus supporting the official line that it ‘ hardly ever happens ’ . |
| 6 | They say they come across thousands of examples of potentially lethal appliances . |
| 7 | Reports of sea serpents say they look like smooth snakes , but they are many times larger than the biggest snakes on earth : the longest seem to be about 200 metres . |
| 8 | ‘ And they say they care about those below ’ , said the commentary , as the monkey urinated against a wall . |
| 9 | People were comparing their 1992–93 charge with just the ‘ water services ’ charge they paid in 1991–92 which was not comparing like with like , he said . |
| 10 | I not too bothered that Scum Could get to the league cup final and FA cup final ( as long as they lose ) , I hope they do with several replays along the way . |
| 11 | All the major firms in the industry are members of the SWA , who consider they account for some 98% of the industry 's employment . |
| 12 | As Lane points out for the Soviet Union : ‘ However much control they have over Soviet production enterprises , managers and administrators can neither dispose of their assets for their private good , nor can their children have any exclusive rights to nationalised property ’ ( Lane 1982 , p. 135 ) . |
| 13 | Wrong ‘ I know they go to great lengths to avoid paying up , but I did n't realise it had got this bad . ’ |
| 14 | You know they sleep with both eyes open and a rifle under the pillow-not to mention the fact that it 's still lambing season and most of them will be up all night ! |
| 15 | Given it up and he said oh well got no kids you know they live in this house , got no kids . |
| 16 | In Australia , you know they grow into great big huge trees in Australia , Mrs told me . |
| 17 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 18 | The drawing suggests a physical barrier to communication so that as the two parties approach they slide past each other . |
| 19 | Any existing members who believe they qualify for this new rating category from the 1st May next should contact the Autocover staff at Frank Glennon Limited who will arrange for their premiums to be adjusted from their next renewal date . |
| 20 | And that 's something that christians believe they have over all other faiths , that the only way to God is through Jesus Christ . |
| 21 | What rights , duties and debts do the various individuals within the family feel they have towards each other ? |
| 22 | two minutes slow , I mean they go by that . |
| 23 | I mean they get into these jobs and really they 've no background of understanding of the exact |
| 24 | The rebels claim they strayed into Kurdish territory without permission . |
| 25 | Be on your guard if your receive unsolicited visits from alarm company representatives who claim they work in close co-operation with the police . |
| 26 | And they go they go like that . |
| 27 | Give you headlines and then they start and they go they expand on each headline , do n't they ? |
| 28 | Well they I think they came by Red Star . |
| 29 | They 're gon na gain from that or they 're gon na be seeing that they think they gain from that and all you 've got ta get over to the members we 're gon na be a cohesive force and that we 're going , we are going to fight some day together for them . |
| 30 | Absolutely and this is why I think they get round this , they 've solved this problem by saying okay folks , we will adopt a purely erm classificator or in other words fictitious , rigged system of kinship and we wo n't call there and that 's what they do . |