Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any chance one or other of them has had an attack of conscience and decided to pay it back ? ’ |
| 2 | An overlay of interactive colouring them followed to bring an element of form , though intentionally avoiding too detailed a degree of modelling . |
| 3 | More selective compounds did emerge , and some of them continue to play an important role . |
| 4 | In 1934 the British members of the NATPS took another step along this road when , after talking with officials of America 's National Association of Creditmen , they planned to form an ‘ Institute of Creditmen ’ , a body of individuals , which came into being in April 1939 based in London but with local societies all over Britain . |
| 5 | They agreed to develop an economic integration plan proposed by five Central American presidents in the Antigua Declaration of June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 6 | Not only are British managers outstandingly good at adapting to foreign countries , but they tend to leave an equally indelible imprint when they have gone . |
| 7 | Moreover they tend to serve an audience of converts , who already have some basic understanding and who are sufficiently interested to want to know more . |
| 8 | They tend to receive an unsatisfactory education , harbour poor employment prospects and have few ways of creating a positive self-concept . |
| 9 | And in the first day of life they tend to sleep an awful lot , right , so newborns tend to be sleepy and inactive and the things that , that wake babies up and warm them are feeding , crying , limb movement . |
| 10 | Secondly , on the issue of the precedents for making a defendant prove his defence in the way in which the Bill requires , I argue that every year — certainly since I have been in the House — we have created numerous new offences which have defences attached to them , usually for those who can show that they acted reasonably or that they used due diligence to ensure that they avoided committing an offence . |
| 11 | On April 13 the main religious parties rejected the proposed Islamic Law bills , saying that they sought to perpetuate an interest-based economy . |
| 12 | The radicalism of the young people in his office consists in this : that they want to create an ideal world flowing with milk and honey , where man is brother to man , and lives in harmony with nature ; where ice is warm to the touch , and no ocean is too wide for a child to wade across , bucket and spade in hand . |
| 13 | They want to see an end to the image of trade unions as Labour 's paymaster and , by implication , policy-maker . |
| 14 | Is it because they want to see an England team that attacks like the Brazilians and absorbs pressure like the Germans ? |
| 15 | ‘ They want to do an operation , pet , ’ Gloria explained at visiting time . |
| 16 | and er , in a , and then Top Gear they want to do an interview with him for er , erm racing for the disabled . |
| 17 | They want to have an audience but I do n't think they are worried about an ever-increasing one , ’ he says . |
| 18 | They want to have an interesting or exciting time , a time that would not be boring , where they could create some action … |
| 19 | The headteacher say , ‘ Evidence showed that our community did value the work we do , that they want to know more about what we can offer and that they want to play an active part in their children 's pre-school experience . |
| 20 | Some firms are actually enjoying the recession ; 397 of the 1,410 companies recently surveyed by the Nihon Keizai newspaper said they expect to show an increase in pre-tax profits at the end of the financial year . |
| 21 | Directors said they expect to pay an interim and a final in the current year . |
| 22 | The significance of the oxygen isotope data reported by Woodhead and colleagues is that they appear to require an upper crustal or sedimentary component in the lavas of the Pitcairn seamounts . |
| 23 | The strategy they used involved an ingenious mixture of design and chance . |
| 24 | They tried to force an amendment , to extend the Sunday closing time from two to three p.m . |
| 25 | When they tried to make an arrest , the police were subject to vicious abuse and assault . |
| 26 | The declining fortunes of both racing and bookmaking came into direct collision when they tried to determine an appropriate levy for the next fiscal year . |
| 27 | The towns they visited exuded an atmosphere of sinister disquiet ; very different was the Dominican monastery they discovered at Corbara . |
| 28 | Punishment affords them little pleasure and they seek to maintain an untarnished image of uncompromised benevolence . |
| 29 | Her mouth was a red gash in her powdered face and when in Act Two she told her husband that the degenerate Martin had never loved her , never ever , even though they 'd conducted an affair , real tears trickled from her tragic eyes . |
| 30 | Once again they 'd reached an impasse , but in truth it really did n't matter . |