Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They stab each other with their banderillas . ’ |
| 2 | where 'd you want this , the post ? , that the , before they stab each other with it oh that sounds like he 's in the cooker is he |
| 3 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 4 | Yeah , I know we went in there last week , cos they had these cards , they got those things with six bugs on them , they 're really ugly looking things , Aaron wanted them , he has n't half been playing some tricks on Gary take them down in front of Gary and that Gary 's aagh |
| 5 | Proposals such as these aroused considerable debate in the 1930s ( particularly on the question of whether , for every job vacated by an older worker , a new one would be created for a younger person ) , but they made little headway with the National Government . |
| 6 | It is not even clear whether they travelled in a Japanese or a Chinese ship : but either way they made secret contacts with Thakin friends who agreed to accompany them back to Japan . |
| 7 | They made three mistakes with these cattle — they let them in , they failed to test them , and they encouraged farmers like myself to buy the cattle , and all these moves were errors . |
| 8 | Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . |
| 9 | Even though most of the working-class women had low skill , repetitive jobs , they picked out certain qualities of these jobs as satisfying by comparison with housework , and they shared this tendency with the middle-class women . |
| 10 | In two respects — the nature of their self-concepts and their social networks — their position was quite highly domestic and kin-oriented , but they shared these characteristics with other women in the sample . |
| 11 | Most commonly they requested more help with social security benefits . |
| 12 | In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night . |
| 13 | The solution has been the opening of three Protocols for ratification by the nuclear States , whereby they make certain commitments with respect to the zone . |
| 14 | Modern breeds of these homing pigeons return so reliably and are so tame and amenable that they make excellent subjects with which to investigate the homing ability . |
| 15 | Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew said the RUC still had his full support and he believed they pursued all killers with equal determination . |
| 16 | They maintained close contact with the League of Nations High Commissioner and with the Polish Commissioner General . |
| 17 | In 1991 the children were removed and placed elsewhere , where they maintained regular contact with their mother . |
| 18 | Most of them were now entitled to a ground job — ‘ flying a desk ’ — but they regarded this prospect with horror . |
| 19 | They charged some people with the murder a year later . |
| 20 | I just spent a week in Iraq and they used one photo with no other stories playing . |
| 21 | They sleep 2–4 people with 2 sofa beds in the lounge . |
| 22 | For example , they associate liberal democracy with the core countries , arguing that such a system is only sustainable over substantial periods in countries which are exploiting the entire world-system , and can ‘ buy-off ’ popular demands from their own residents because of the wealth that is being appropriated from other countries . |
| 23 | In 1844 one auxiliary corps of artillery still stood guard on the city walls at night , and they disturbed many people with their noisy alerts . |
| 24 | They say promised consultation with the college 's governing body before a final decisionis made has n't happened . |
| 25 | Overall , they show that treatment with subcutaneous heparin in addition to aspirin and thrombolysis has no significant effect on mortality but does result in an excess of major bleeding necessitating transfusions , as well as cerebral haemorrhage . |
| 26 | They did n't win in 1970 , but they put that right with a vengeance in 1971 . |
| 27 | In particular they identified two mesotrons with nearly identical masses but different properties : the slightly heavier one they named ‘ pion ’ and the lighter one ‘ muon ’ . |
| 28 | sort of track are contacting the people who done a very good job on the on the public footpath erm and that was actually going through our land , and they done some steps with erm you know erm wooden erm supports in them , er maybe in in conjunction with , was it ? |
| 29 | The point is that they examine such areas with very different specifications in mind to , say , the sociologist , the historian or the political scientist . |
| 30 | In a really good metaphor , according to Winisatt ( 1958 : 149 ) , ‘ two clearly and substantially named objects … are brought into such a context that they face each other with fullest relevance and illumination … ’ . |