Example sentences of "they [vb base] [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 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 3 | I hope they bring lots of nice samples . |
| 4 | You get all the little erm they bring you around all yo , the little chutneys and things . |
| 5 | They sell everything from expired penicillin injections , pirated cassettes and old clothes to skin lightening creams — ‘ As Used by Top American Society ’ . |
| 6 | But , I mean , they sell them round at Dash Hill for erm , they sell them for two hundred and fifty do n't , the shops |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | reckon they sell them like that ? |
| 9 | Yeah , they buy gas at eighteen P and they sell it for forty three P . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Fluoride helps to toughen the protective enamel on children 's teeth , but wo n't prevent decay if they eat lots of sugary snacks . |
| 12 | They make them in bloody big batches now |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | They attach themselves to executable files and are able to load themselves every time the infected file is loaded . |
| 15 | People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times . |
| 16 | And it depends on what they want if they want it to three decimal places with this |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On the other hand , they supply us with essential fatty acids , often known as vitamin F , which are the starting materials for prostaglandin synthesis . |
| 20 | 4 One problem with many passages in Eliot 's plays is that they send us to similar but stronger passages in the poetry . |
| 21 | ‘ When you meet them they kiss you on both cheeks . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If you 've got tetanus , to stop you breaking your back with these muscle contractions , so that they can nurse you adequately , they inject you with this stuff and you are paralysed until the tetanus has been fought off . |
| 24 | They say something like this : ‘ Here you are , a cultured person , you know and understand the meaning of this ancient monument . |
| 25 | During the course of er this meeting you will hear from the Chairman and the Honorary Treasurer and we may well cover an enormous amount of the grounds that is relevant to you as commodores , members and officers of the Association and it might be worth , I am going to avoid what he 's trying to avoid most of that area because I believe they cover it in greater detail and give you more of an opportunity to find out precisely what 's been going on . |
| 26 | Those of geometer moths are coloured and patterned to look like twigs and when they hold themselves with one end in the air at exactly the same angle to a stem as other twigs springing from it , they are virtually impossible to detect . |
| 27 | They put something like 30,000 Chinese refugees back over the border each year and it was a custom of international law that such immigrants are received back , she said . |
| 28 | They took me along and they put me into this dormitory . |
| 29 | Well , I 'd had so much time on the sick , they put me on half pay . |
| 30 | Oh well they treated me alright afterwards because Mr er said , well you see they put me on big presses during the last war and er I 've always loved machinery , always loved machinery and then the foreman said er before the foreman came to him Mr said er , you 've got to learn to set your own tools , he said , I ca n't keep coming out of the tool room and er to change your tools , so of course erm I began setting my own tools , but when I got them in they would come around and check because otherwise hundreds of pounds have gone , could have gone if I had n't just got the top to go in right in the base you know , and er they were great big presses very big . |