Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If people want to go swimming in early evening or early morning we would advise them to go to a swimming pool , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 2 | Teesside Crown Court was told Ninham had offered to give the boys money for fireworks and encouraged them to go for a walk with him and his dog . |
| 3 | And they 'll actually sit down and work that out for people and encourage them to go for a job and give them all the forms they need to claim Family Credit or whatever . |
| 4 | The US Congress at the end of March 1988 allocated humanitarian aid to the contras which enabled them to continue as a force , but Nicaragua from May 1988 unilaterally extended the Sapoá ceasefire on a monthly basis throughout 1988 and for most of 1989 [ see pp. 36421-22 ; 36681 ; see also below ] . |
| 5 | The glass before them became like a mirror for the briefest time but it was a distorting , ghost-train mirror , more shadow than substance-with his mind adding hallucinatory details to the little that he could see . |
| 6 | Most of them arose as a result of an all-Russian phenomenon in 1922 — the lack of co-ordination and exchange of information between the centre and the localities , together with nonchalant neglect of provincial problems so long as they did not affect central political issues . |
| 7 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
| 8 | They invited them to sit at a table and were joined by an unusually tall , thin man who was extraordinarily blonde for his age which was thirty to thirtyfive . |
| 9 | I thought I 'd write to a few comedians to see if I could get them to sit for a portrait , to get a few shots together for my portfolio , and then , suddenly , this snowball seemed to start rolling … |
| 10 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 11 | Cut a slice off the bottom of each pear to enable them to sit in a dish without falling over , and place in an ovenproof dish well spaced out . |
| 12 | Earlier in the day , the police task force moved on bands of New Age travellers , trying to stop them gathering for a festival this weekend . |
| 13 | By this time , however , the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ had produced and tested an atomic bomb , and the new President Truman agreed House the fearful weapon against the Japanese in the hope that it would cause them to agree to a ceasefire . |
| 14 | She had them hidden in a box , in the store room . |
| 15 | The most interesting show out of London is Miro : Sculpture , which has opened at the Southampton City Art Gallery ; 37 bronzes are on show , each one of them made by a Catalan , anarchist , sex-mad Santa Claus |
| 16 | Instead , it plonks them down on the gravel path and lets them knock about a bit . |
| 17 | With someone who 's not I 'd try and get them to wait for a couple of days and then if they would n't I 'd go through the and get them it today . |
| 18 | As soon as the song finished she grabbed her cousin and the two of them sank into a heap on the floor , hiding their faces and giggling . |
| 19 | Mr Justice Drake instructed them to try for a majority 10-2 . |
| 20 | Two of , two of them departed for a period of six months . |
| 21 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 22 | J. F. Campbell tells of sticks with sharpened ends which had been burnt and hardened in a fire and said he had seen one of them found in a moss , and writes " They used to throw them from them , and could aim exceedingly with them , and they could drive through a man . |
| 23 | On reaching the lockers he found the area around them occupied by a crowd of students , their rucksacks and kitbags strewn across the unswept floor . |
| 24 | Wickham revived the Black Friar meeting , suggesting Maureen knew what Barron wanted to talk to her father about and asking why it had been important to them to meet in a pub instead of one of the two Fleet Street offices at their disposal . |
| 25 | The college says the exercise will build up the young people 's confidence and help them to work as a team . |
| 26 | ‘ He brings considerable outside experience and proven ability in defining practical business strategies and putting them to work in a market environment , ’ Mr Hugh Smith said . |
| 27 | He 's already had two anyway through recognising people that have been through his hands in the cell block , an following 'em and finding them climbing through a window . |
| 28 | I no longer vociferously challenge those who insult ; instead , I may casually invite them to come for a coffee and see/meet some students . |
| 29 | Heat the frankfurters by leaving them to stand in a pan of water that has just boiled for about 5 minutes . |
| 30 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |