Example sentences of "they [vb base] they [prep] a " in BNC.
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1 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
2 | Our high-rise flats were based on Scandinavian flats , but they build them to a much higher standard . |
3 | They put them into a box with one of Bobbie 's prettiest handkerchiefs . |
4 | In days when guests used to go out on the hill with gillies if they were fishing a large loch , and caught undersized trout , they did n't put these small fish back ; instead , they put them in a bucket , taken along for the purpose , and carefully carried the little fish to an adjacent lochan . |
5 | as most Easter eggs go to kids , they put them in a breakable cup , while they do n't put them in a plastic one or a melamine one |
6 | They drop them from a light plane into snowdrifts . ’ |
7 | In this same hospital , when relatives come to the mortuary to visit the dead member of their family , they view them through a sheet of glass . |
8 | Instead they park them in a special nursery area , packed tightly together so that the loss of heat from their bare bodies is minimised . |
9 | Likewise with friends they 've probably got fewer friends but the friends they have got are very close friends and they know them on a much deeper level . |
10 | So how on earth they keep them to a schedule I do not know but I do n't want to know now . |
11 | They criticize them as a blueprint for turning Britain into Europe 's toxic dump . |
12 | it is education is n't it , they arrange them in a class |
13 | you know they take them for a little visit so they get used to the school before they go , which is a good idea , I mean we were just thrown in |
14 | They have them on a lot now . |
15 | They see them as a modulation of other cognitive patterns , and as a realm parallel to the realm of gender relations , and determined by it in a fairly direct way . |
16 | They beat them in a war and took the land . |