Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv prt] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SCOTLAND set out to salvage their under-21 season when they round off a disappointing campaign against the Welsh at Myreside , Edinburgh , today ( 3pm ) . |
| 2 | Friday nights are hot at Apples and Snakes — every week they bring on a new lineup of outstanding poets and performers . |
| 3 | They bring in a similar amount of cash as small , or public , lotteries . |
| 4 | Next year I hope they bring in a seeding system as many of the top winning dogs clashed very early on . |
| 5 | when you get tho when you get the half the er when you get sort of well like the scooterist dos and th the DJs bring it up , I mean they bring in a hard core |
| 6 | If you know certain children are going to have difficulty in separating from parents , then it helps if they bring along a favourite toy . |
| 7 | What you gon na d right if they bring out a twelve hundred plus , so what . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They drag out a strange kind of illusory real , and really illusory existence … |
| 10 | They make up a wide pair , with beautiful contrasting colours ; Lambda is white and Mu very red , with an M-type spectrum . |
| 11 | They make up a physically-associated system , but the real separation between them is over 300000 million kilometres . |
| 12 | With the wringer and mop they make up a mopping system . |
| 13 | In certain areas of higher education — physics and engineering , for example — they make up a tiny proportion of students . |
| 14 | Social class differences are equally stark : in spite of the fact that manual workers are the majority of the working population , they make up a small proportion of those covered by retirement pensions . |
| 15 | Today they make up a sad string of tarnished beads , from Bombay , Calcutta and Rangoon to Saigon ( now Ho Chi Minh City ) , Hanoi and Canton . |
| 16 | Roy Keane , Niall Quinn , Ray Houghton , Steve Staunton and Kevin Moran will all incur a one-match ban if they pick up a second yellow card tomorrow . |
| 17 | Some use such a sophisticated system that they build up a detailed picture of their surroundings , effectively " seeing " with sound instead of light . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On my third shelf , I had put all my puppets and they put on a small puppet show for me . |
| 20 | And there 's no telling quite what they will do … some nights they put on a full stage show , other times there may be a game or a sing song to join in with … but whatever the day , whatever the time there 's one thing you wo n't be at Tropicana , and that 's bored ! |
| 21 | ‘ I bet they put up a bloody good fight , ’ he said . |
| 22 | And then they put up a big tent in the Beside the school where you went out for your supper er it was that . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Bosnian Serbs under Karadzic are against the plan drawn up by mediators Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen because it demands they give up a third of the territory they control and proposes dividing Bosnia into ten ethnic cantons . |
| 25 | They set up a wholly-owned subsidiary called Information Products , which is now in discussion with an outside venture capital company which will take a major shareholding . |
| 26 | They set up a traditional Scout camp , to give the children a break from the harsh conditions of their day to day existence . |
| 27 | They set up a new organisation called the Sub-Tenants ' Committee , which would campaign ‘ not on political but on humanitarian grounds ’ . |
| 28 | In December they set up a new one to consider moving the capital . |
| 29 | However , some management education is provided in technical colleges which are not associated with RMCs and , somewhat concerned lest their work and status be eclipsed by nearby RMCs , they set up a separate pressure group in the form of the United Kingdom Standing Conference of Management Heads ( UKSC ) . |
| 30 | There they set up a rear headquarters and resupply dump . |