Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And again coming forward in numbers and they look at on the edge of the area and he is duly fouled by and it 's a free kick in a dangerous position . |
| 2 | Karen Mayo-Chandler 's allegations made lascivious reading : ‘ When girls are asked what they look for in a man , they always talk about sensitive things , like intellect , kindness and a sense of humour . |
| 3 | You know when you put those boots on and the string rather because they they are what they they look like with the they 're called boots . |
| 4 | Braden-Harder and Zadrozny [ 1989 ] have identified what they refer to as a ’ wish-list ’ for MRD organisation ; in terms of enhancements to existing information and additional information : |
| 5 | In the first place it is associated , as I have noted , with a general movement towards greater equality , and is contested by those social theorists of the New Right ( King , 1987 ) who , in recent years , have criticized what they refer to as a ‘ dependency culture ’ , and have urged instead the creation or restoration of an ‘ enterprise culture ’ of a more individualistic kind , in which the role of the state and other public authorities in providing welfare services would be radically diminished . |
| 6 | But there are what they refer to as the ‘ problem families ’ . |
| 7 | They believe that there is an ‘ intermediate strata ’ sandwiched between what they refer to as the working and service classes . |
| 8 | I 'm sure Father Chris would be pleased to hear that and would be very flattered to hear that as well but erm he 's erm I 'm sure he does try to live by those rules because er obviously that 's one of the bases of his life but erm I was thinking more in terms of somebody who stood up for themse stood up for what they believe in in a situation where it was difficult . |
| 9 | And a fifth of businesses with turnover of up to £1m said they had no firm of lawyers with whom they deal with on a regular basis at all . |
| 10 | To the extent that language learners , by definition , are deficient in competence they can not authenticate the language they deal with in the manner of the native speaker . |
| 11 | There they stay for about a fortnight until they have completed their first moult and can fend for themselves . |
| 12 | As so often , it is the monstrous ones that stick in the mind : two gross , splayed pairs of legs about to join the rest of the body they belong to in the maw of two amiable-looking man-eaters ( reminiscent of Oloron ) ; two horribly bent captives , their feet tied by a cord and their heads looking as if they are propped upright on sticks — strange motifs , yet motifs all the same , because they are not unique to Lescar . |
| 13 | Well you want to nip over there and see what they come on on the roll . |
| 14 | Or at tea , when they come in in the morning or when they go home in the evening . |
| 15 | they come from over the sh , the shop way a lot of them |
| 16 | ‘ Well , we know that they come from behind the Iron Curtain and that there are vast stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the Eastern Bloc . |
| 17 | And they come from behind the screen ! |
| 18 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 19 | Feminist methods frequently situate themselves socially and historically in ways which distinguish the concept of the subject they work with from the one which underpins qualitative psychological methods , and which give these methods a different significance . |
| 20 | There will be a small minority for whom achieving level 1 alone will present longer-term goals , which they work towards through a series of preliminary programmes . |