Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Opposite ) Venomous snakes do not bite their victims — they stab them with open mouths , injecting their venom through hollow teeth in the upper jaw . |
| 2 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 3 | Ronni cast him a glance , as they seated themselves at opposite sides of the table . |
| 4 | I hope they bring lots of nice samples . |
| 5 | They sell everything from expired penicillin injections , pirated cassettes and old clothes to skin lightening creams — ‘ As Used by Top American Society ’ . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | Since the works ( de Kooning apart ) were abstract they lent themselves to diverse interpretations . |
| 8 | Guess what , they made one for Super Nintendo . |
| 9 | they sold it and somebody bought and er they made it into private er |
| 10 | Would the evening 's audience lob the balls back , or would they treat them as collectable souvenirs ? |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Fluoride helps to toughen the protective enamel on children 's teeth , but wo n't prevent decay if they eat lots of sugary snacks . |
| 13 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 14 | They make them in bloody big batches now |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | They attach themselves to executable files and are able to load themselves every time the infected file is loaded . |
| 17 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 18 | People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | On the other hand , they supply us with essential fatty acids , often known as vitamin F , which are the starting materials for prostaglandin synthesis . |
| 22 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 23 | They found plenty of common Church interests and then friendship ; they had conversations , which Ramsey enjoyed enormously , about matters political as well as religious ; Ramsey went over to Garrowby several times for meals or to stay the night and celebrate the sacrament in the morning ; and he conducted Halifax 's funeral at Kirby Underdale in 1959 . |
| 24 | When broadcasters were promoted they found themselves in administrative posts : talented people were rewarded with jobs which meant that they broadcast no longer . |
| 25 | By the late 1880s , however , they found themselves in open conflict with the women 's trade union movement on this point . |
| 26 | 4 One problem with many passages in Eliot 's plays is that they send us to similar but stronger passages in the poetry . |
| 27 | Then they tried it with various kinds of depression , even psychoses . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They committed themselves to simple pro-rata savings rather than a re-ordering of priorities , reflecting the changing demand for the education and social services . |
| 30 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |