Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I count them put them into little money bags . |
| 2 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 3 | I hope they bring lots of nice samples . |
| 4 | They sell everything from expired penicillin injections , pirated cassettes and old clothes to skin lightening creams — ‘ As Used by Top American Society ’ . |
| 5 | and the Warner Brothers Bugs Bunny and the popcorn , you go and get your popcorn dish out of thing , show Alex how much popcorn we bought , I mean you go up there and it 's not like it used to be years ago a little bale of popcorn they sell them in huge great big cartons up there |
| 6 | starting with the right material , the A&R staff try to encourage artists to write commercially and they introduce them to good studios , engineers , producers and other musicians . ’ |
| 7 | Fluoride helps to toughen the protective enamel on children 's teeth , but wo n't prevent decay if they eat lots of sugary snacks . |
| 8 | They make them in bloody big batches now |
| 9 | When , however , they borrow them from other disciplines , they must expect either that the chronological fit is bad ( if they insist on matching the style ) or that the stylistic fit is bad ( if they match the chronology ) . |
| 10 | They attach themselves to executable files and are able to load themselves every time the infected file is loaded . |
| 11 | People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times . |
| 12 | The client takes out a second application , and they want it on minimum premiums , they actually get it for eighty per cent of the current value of the minimum premium . |
| 13 | The job description for the post has come — not for me , not enough experience and they want someone with multi-site retail experience as well as PR experience , ie someone from PR in banking , insurance or building society . |
| 14 | On the other hand , they supply us with essential fatty acids , often known as vitamin F , which are the starting materials for prostaglandin synthesis . |
| 15 | 4 One problem with many passages in Eliot 's plays is that they send us to similar but stronger passages in the poetry . |
| 16 | We think it against nature if someone so lacks prudence that they involve themselves in great foreseen evil for the sake of satisfying some fairly trifling present impulse . |
| 17 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |
| 18 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 19 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 20 | I have to track them down cos they put them in obscure places sometimes , but there are conference notice boards . |
| 21 | ‘ They put us under tremendous pressure . |
| 22 | They 've been doing that for a they take it from and they put it in cheap cheap labour . |
| 23 | Er , the recommendation to those committees was that they should treat the paper as a basis for consultation , it was on that basis that they approved it , it was my impression that they support it in general terms . |
| 24 | The process may sound wasteful , but they conduct it with great economy . |
| 25 | In general , there is evidence that children who have developed a sensitivity to cow 's milk may become sensitive to soya proteins as well , if they consume them in large quantities . |
| 26 | They view it through other men 's eyes . |
| 27 | It turns out they read it in sensational newspapers at the supermarket checkout counter . ’ |
| 28 | That 's not because people had bigger families , it 's because they pack them with young , poor parents , ghettos for women and children . |
| 29 | ‘ Type L ’ isoleucine in the living organism and ‘ type D ’ isoleucine in the dead organism have almost the same chemical characters , but when they are hit by light they deflect it in different ways . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's what they teach you in military service , is it ? ’ remarked his father , from one end of the table . |