Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay gasping for breath behind some wooden benches . |
| 2 | At a larger distance , none the less , a pattern of partial unity of purpose grows faintly visible , and the old romancers and young realists of post-war Britain by now look one in what they denied and defied , even if they remain opposed in style and in the positives of dogmatic faith . |
| 3 | Like a city buried by a volcano , they remain frozen in time , untouched by the change , decay and renewal which constantly alter the structures of our conscious mental life . |
| 4 | Prior to AD 625 the coins are found mainly in Kent and the upper Thames valley ; afterwards they are found spread over a wider area as far afield as Ireland , Scotland , Derbyshire and Yorkshire , although they remain concentrated in south-east England . |
| 5 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 6 | In order to help us I think in our discussions , it seems to me that , I think we ought to write formally to the County Council and to the District Council actually asking them for more details of their consideration for what they intend to do about parishes . |
| 7 | I think in order to support our our response to the Royal Commission , which is imminent , the County Council and the District Council must now have had firm ideas on what they intend to do with parishes . |
| 8 | The report might contain some nasty shocks , so the formula to be used by both sides is to agree to disclose reports upon which they intend to rely at trial . |
| 9 | Ministers will clash over how far they intend to pay for capital spending projects by freezing the pay of public sector workers like teachers , nurses and doctors , or limiting rises to two per cent . |
| 10 | Mechanistic systems are unsuitable in conditions of change because they tend to deal with change by cumbersome methods . |
| 11 | However , in practice often the micros are not to be found near the chalkface : rather they tend to live on trolleys and inhabit locked cupboards in primary schools , and cluster in specialist departments at secondary and FE levels . |
| 12 | They tend to dress for comfort and convenience rather than to impress . |
| 13 | These stations are run by boards appointed by the state governments so that they tend to act as mouthpieces of the respective state governments . |
| 14 | Once firms seek out new , more efficient premises , they tend to move to locations where production is more efficient and potential expansion easier . |
| 15 | The non-dipole terms give a site dependence to the VGP paths ; they tend to move from east to west if the site is northeast or southwest of the point 0°N ; 90°E and from west to east if the site is northwest or southeast of it . |
| 16 | * Except for the top quality , Italian-produced no-cook pasta , such products should be avoided as they tend to taste of cardboard and have a similar texture . |
| 17 | Is the Minister aware that in my constituency people refer to buses these days , following deregulation , as bananas because they tend to arrive in bunches ? |
| 18 | This paper only gives erm an , what is called an integrated pollution inspectorate , now unfortunately with those sort of central inspectorates is that after the public 's attention has drifted on , they tend to be erm , they tend to dwindle in numbers , as we 've seen with the present pollution inspectorate . |
| 19 | Floating voters tend to say things like ‘ Of course , being in carpets , what I 'm really looking for from the parties is a firm pledge on European weaving quotas , ’ and they tend to sound like Hurd and look like Gummer . |
| 20 | First , when we examine a very wide range of psychotic traits in normal people , using questionnaires that contain different kinds of item , we find that they tend to group into clusters closely corresponding to the different ways in which clinical psychosis manifests itself : in emotion , in perception and thinking , and in socially deviant behaviour . |
| 21 | They tend to concentrate on policies that would help women follow the same age-related career path as men . |
| 22 | They tend to concentrate on manufacturers ' most popular brands |
| 23 | This accounts for the fact that on cloudy nights , when there are no stars to be seen , they tend to wander off course and may even get completely lost . |
| 24 | Well they tend to come in batches do n't they ? |
| 25 | When people think of archaeology , they tend to think of excavations , particularly those in distant lands such as Egypt and Greece . |
| 26 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 27 | They tend to congregate in groups , and burrow tunnels in the mud from which they hang out , slowly oscillating in the water , quickly disappearing into their burrows if disturbed . |
| 28 | I do n't think the public know that the every call they make comes to headquarters |
| 29 | THE FIRST thing you notice about The Wishplants is how they make performing on stage look so good and so damn easy . |
| 30 | According to this , the meaning of words and statements lies in the psychological states ( including long standing dispositions ) which they combine to produce in hearers and to be caused by in speakers . |