Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 2 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 3 | They no longer guard harems ; instead , as in the Mahabharata , they dance for a living . |
| 4 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 5 | International referee Derek Bevan , who handled the World Cup final , agreed with Kirkpatrick , citing another area where law changes have had negative consequences : ‘ When the ball is fielded following a high kick from the attacking side the chasing forwards can close in and circle the catcher provided that they remain at a distance of 10 metres . |
| 6 | I agree with my hon. Friend that in the past the weakness when farmers have got together has been the quality of marketing and management that they bring to a project . |
| 7 | They hide behind a wall of friendly but hard line management . |
| 8 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 9 | These two items appear simply to be ghoulish trophies , since they sit on a table with other specimens of internal organs . |
| 10 | Anyway , so erm he said , but you know he was saying to them that er , it 's not just at the bottom end , he said , in our village in Wales we 've got the Sun have now positioned two reporters who have lived in the village the these the they sit in a car outside his house day and night |
| 11 | In general terms , developmentalists take the view that it should be possible to examine the ways in which infants and young children interact with the physical world and with other people and to determine how they change as a result . |
| 12 | They centre on a request for details of ‘ a private side-letter ’ alongside the final funding agreement from Lord Young , the then Trade and Industry Secretary , to British Aerospace . |
| 13 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |
| 14 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 15 | In a way , black sportsmen in Britain are responding to what they perceive as a challenge . |
| 16 | The snag is it means you ca n't rent a car : they insist on a credit card for that nowadays so you 're going to see America by bus . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Now , despite inflation and the many extra duties they have entrusted us with , they insist on a budget of £20.2m . |
| 18 | The social worker helps clients become aware of information processing biases that can distort the sense they make of a situation . |
| 19 | When disturbed , they make for a crevice or hole where they can jam themselves in so tight with their powerful claws that it is almost impossible to dislodge them . |
| 20 | They are very happy places and they make for a lot of happiness with parents too I think . |
| 21 | Club promotion reflects the importance of dance clubs and the contribution they make towards a record 's popularity . |
| 22 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 23 | Although they suffer from a shortage of personnel themselves it is the young churches who are now providing the Church with missionaries . |
| 24 | According to functionalism , it is useful to categorize environmental stimuli on the basis of what they mean to a subject rather than on the basis of their gross physical characteristics . |
| 25 | They are used to working long hard hours and often in their new independent state — with great delight — employ men for menial tasks only , or for other services , as they hint with a smile . |
| 26 | It is disappointing that South Saxon charters for these years are frequently of doubtful authenticity , if not entirely spurious , but they hint at a sequence of events similar to those in Kent . |
| 27 | They grow by a series of moults but never pass through a pupal stage or undergo transformation . |
| 28 | They also do n't like wind rock so in a , an exposed position young plants do really need more staking than you 'd probably give a bush because they tend to rot off at the roots if they grow around a lot . |
| 29 | They fit in a baby AT form factor and incorporate ISA expansion slots . |
| 30 | She stoops to pick up the leaves , then drops them as ( by a cut ) they transform into a knife . |