Example sentences of "they [vb base] they [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 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | reckon they sell them like that ? |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | They make them in bloody big batches now |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | People always will want horses but they want them in different forms at different times . |
| 10 | The pubs had begun hiring marquees to contain their overflow and they put them to good use by putting on entertainment — a disco , a barn dance or jazz music — on the Friday and Saturday evenings . |
| 11 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 12 | They catch them and pickle them or pin them on cards ; they put them in various sorts of cages and study their responses to different environments and different stimuli … |
| 13 | I have to track them down cos they put them in obscure places sometimes , but there are conference notice boards . |
| 14 | In general , there is evidence that children who have developed a sensitivity to cow 's milk may become sensitive to soya proteins as well , if they consume them in large quantities . |
| 15 | Well they wear them with these leggings do n't they ? |
| 16 | That 's not because people had bigger families , it 's because they pack them with young , poor parents , ghettos for women and children . |
| 17 | And they get them on one machine ? |
| 18 | Not necessarily , since both teachers and researchers will ultimately use readability formulae for just so long as they find them of some value . |
| 19 | But the speakers that you are observing ‘ know ’ how to use the resources of variation available to them , and they use them for many purposes , including the marking of varying social roles and functions . |
| 20 | Now they use them for arable cash crops and special market garden crops . |
| 21 | were , was n't those gloves , they , it , it was their thermolactal that they , they sell always cos they do them in black and grey |
| 22 | They leave them on all night , even when the shop 's shut . |
| 23 | They leave them in these lay-bys while they have a little kip or a cup of tea . |
| 24 | If soft enough to show footprints and vehicle tracks , they retain them for many years . |
| 25 | together with a representative of British Rail , and he was saying that , I , forget how many car transporters they 've got that erm , they built , bought specially to go on British Rail , he said , but they said he just had to give them up for many reasons and one of them was the problems that they have with new cars when they take them on British Rail and the brake dust from the trains apparently causes immediate rust . |
| 26 | Unless they 're being , unless they transmit them from one satellite to another . |
| 27 | They invest them in various ways and at the end of the day you can use that erm policy to actually top up your pension or provide for increased family benefits and because it 's a the administration costs er costs are sort of less than than you get with erm you know sort of taking out a policy with an individual company , on a one off basis . |