Example sentences of "they [vb base] a [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seem a bit lacking in the speed merchant department . |
| 2 | For example , they describe a child reading the following passage from " Black Beauty " : Then someone ran to our master 's house and came back with a gun ; presently there was a loud bang and a dreadful shriek , and then all was still ; the black horse moved no more . |
| 3 | Their work is discussed with the deputy head ( pupil services ) and they attend a staff meeting at the beginning of each day . |
| 4 | As soon as they sight a predator approaching , they swiftly dart round to the far side of a tree-trunk before performing the rigid ‘ statue ’ response . |
| 5 | They inhabit a world emerging from a period when human beings are said to have lived for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | But this is not sufficient to explain the behaviour of some felines which will run and hide as soon as they hear a man approaching . |
| 7 | They produce a picture showing some of the r and b parameter values ( with a fixed at a = 10 ) for which homoclinic orbits to the origin can be seen . |
| 8 | They produce a book outlining your life . |
| 9 | Instead , they grow a palisade of protective spines as soon as they scent a predator browsing nearby . |
| 10 | In first gear from a standing start , on the level , they ca n't make more than about fifteen miles an hour and they scream a bit doing that . |
| 11 | Pedestrians are being encouraged to slap on a new type of parking ticket if they find a car blocking their way . |
| 12 | They have a company serving in the Tower at the moment . |
| 13 | They have a fly fastening , and two side pockets . |
| 14 | They have a record going well back into the Cambrian , when it might be supposed that the chordates were undergoing a major diversification . |
| 15 | And we 'd like to see the Union fully recognized inside , because , after all , the workers there they need a union representing them in a company like that . |
| 16 | They broadcast a statement reaffirming the army 's support for the process of democratization and denouncing the delays in the electoral process . |
| 17 | Erm nobody 's gon na mug a person if they see us coming , or if they see a bobby coming . |
| 18 | Referees should use common sense on this approach , perhaps shouting ‘ lineout formed ’ if they see a player planning to take a quick throw-in when the forwards have lined up ready for the original lineout . |
| 19 | They see a car coming from the direction they 've been told , and remember , it 's after one in the morning . |