Example sentences of "they [verb] an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they disappeared he turned his attention to a couple of girls who were laughing and giggling as they flung an orange frisbee at each other . |
| 2 | There they met an equal number of members of the congregation , people like themselves , who would be invited to share their experiences . |
| 3 | Unless , of course , they met an incoming messenger on their way . |
| 4 | They got an extra lot of teasing countryside management in conservation and this is why the countryside 's three most active guardians , the association , the and the Council 's protection of rural England are all strongly against breaking up of the forestry commission and selling off this land . |
| 5 | Forest think they got an offside decision out of that but the whistle had er gone before that . |
| 6 | And they got an old curtain at the back door and then that 's all you sort of go through across the corner of the kitchen and he was making a bouquet of flowers and er he was setting them all out like and then when he bought it into me it was all set out in a big thing of cellophane and it 'd got two gold strips like |
| 7 | So , governmental reasoning runs , because they lack an economic interest in saving energy , such occupants can not be trusted to conserve it . |
| 8 | One of the most frequent criticisms of the Cadbury committee 's draft recommendations is that they lack an adequate enforcement mechanism . |
| 9 | For they remain an integral part of that greatest of all our struggles — the advancement of human freedom in its Hegelian sense of " knowledge of necessity " . |
| 10 | Suppression is a way of hiding your true feelings so that they remain an internal experience but do n't manifest themselves in your behaviour . |
| 11 | Party members and activists play an important role in British politics and yet compared with voters they remain an understudied group . |
| 12 | They want a haven for a few days to talk to some neutral listener while they conquer an impending sense of ‘ going round the bend ’ . |
| 13 | It is interesting that they became an integral part of the SAS , wore British uniform and insignia , yet tended to remain a separate squadron — mainly because of the language problem . |
| 14 | Yet they became an instant success , and their following visits established them as among the very top Festival favourites of the 1980s . |
| 15 | They became an essential part of the practices of the Israelite tribes who penetrated to the northern parts of Canaan and integrated with local people . |
| 16 | To start with these outings on the ‘ sun-deck ’ were a welcome change , but they became an increasing strain as we really had nothing to say to the guards . |
| 17 | Their discipline markedly improved during 1944 and they became an efficient fighting force which , from the autumn of 1944 , scored some successes against Bulgarian and Soviet troops . |
| 18 | They became an overnight sensation but were arrested for performing illegally in 1984 , and Zhanna spent time in jail and in exile . |
| 19 | Marked by anti-Semitic slogans , they became an anti-government rally , provoking the Moscow City government on June 16 into warning that the demonstration was illegal . |
| 20 | Rose tried to throw her off and for a moment they became an indistinguishable tangle of clawing arms and jerking feet . |
| 21 | Nor could they make an effective search in the mist and the dark , even if they wanted to . |
| 22 | As a volunteer washer-up remarked ‘ if they can get to the Moon , why ca n't they make an etch-proof glass ? ’ |
| 23 | As had always previously happened , they made an oral agreement followed by the seller giving to the buyers a ‘ sold note ’ which had on the back an exclusion clause . |
| 24 | Well they made an awful lot of new roads since you see . |
| 25 | Neither of them was competent to do that type of business and they made an expensive mistake . |
| 26 | She was consoled , too , to have them in her house where they made an uncommon amount of noise and were certainly not easy guests but their beaming countenances and determination to look on the bright side of everything lightened the atmosphere immensely . |
| 27 | They made an official complaint about the way Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Eynon and his team investigated the case . |
| 28 | The judge found they made an illicit profit of 48.4 million francs ( £6.2 million ) . |
| 29 | The third K2 semi had Harbold/Newton of the USA 4th 50m from the line but they made an excellent recovery to pass Angyal/Petrovics ( Hungary ) and the Olssons of Sweden for 2nd place , 0.03 secs separating the three boats . |
| 30 | In the ‘ free chase ’ of Knaresborough , which had been assigned to Queen Isabella for life , they made an unauthorized perambulation and acted upon it by felling trees , planting hedges , and hunting the deer without warrant . |