Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got out a bag containing balloons and presents for Harry 's birthday bash , which will be held without his parents . |
| 2 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 3 | ‘ These little publishers always say that when they bring out a book everyone else rejected as uncommercial . |
| 4 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
| 5 | They wiped out a village . |
| 6 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 7 | They fought over a girl , I understand . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've had enough ! ’ he screamed as they fought over a table . |
| 9 | And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters . |
| 10 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 11 | They make up a group of institutions which has been described as the ‘ third force ’ in higher education , alongside the universities and polytechnics , and are known variously as colleges of higher education , institutes of higher education , colleges of education or just plain colleges . |
| 12 | They make up an order . |
| 13 | They make up an archive of incalculable value . |
| 14 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 15 | They pick up a calculator , and everybody 's got those these days . |
| 16 | Yes , well these , all wasps of course , er tend to er hit the fruit juice at this time of the year , and that fruit juice is very often fermenting , and you get a particularly er waspish reaction , er naturally , when er somebody goes to pick up a fallen apple or windfall pear , and they pick up a handful of wasp , inadvertently , and I think this year , particularly with a shortage of water , more wasps of all species have been driven to attack fruit , er and are feeding on the er fruit juice , much of which is fermenting . |
| 17 | They taped off an area one hundred yards in diameter round the scene of the explosion — it turned out to be overkill . |
| 18 | Over the next few years they built up a 650-acre farm , a sizeable chunk of which was bought with 20,000 of Frances ' inheritance . |
| 19 | They built up a friendship with the Scottish band , This Poison ! / ‘ It was really cold at their house . |
| 20 | But er the government , a long while ago , actually decided they ought to do something about knocking the institutions ' heads together and they drew up a plan called the Council of Engineering Institutes , where the idea was we get a little of coordination across the entire patch . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's a manager , your dad , is n't he ? ’ asked Jamie Shepherd a few minutes later as they bounced round a corner with the old van rattling as if it was going to shake itself to bits at any moment . |
| 22 | If they send out a document that weighs a kilo for tapes and they sent that one , they 're losing twenty |
| 23 | Fróthi ( perhaps fearing for his subjects ' security ) would never let them rest — and so one day they ground out an army to kill Fróthi and take his gold . |
| 24 | There are caves which seem to We went into the caverns and erm saw the petrified caves where they , the water drip on objects and however many years they build up a stone coating . |
| 25 | Albert then in turn discovers Celie 's true self and slowly they build up a trust and confide in each other . |
| 26 | They build up a taxonomy that relies on whether the preferences of the electorate are seen as fixed or varying and whether government capability is seen as strategic or responsive . |
| 27 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 28 | He shrugged , feeding the steering-wheel expertly through his hands as they roared round a corner . |
| 29 | When the island was about a hundred metres over my head , they let down a seat on a chain . |
| 30 | ‘ People from the UK are astounded when they walk down a cookie aisle in the US , as it may be 60 feet long . |