Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them appear in this book , but all of them were immeasurably helpful in developing my thoughts . |
| 2 | Then they launch into this routine . |
| 3 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 4 | The documents obtained in this way were stored in an archive in Salamanca ( where they remain to this day ) and , after the end of the war , were constantly referred to by the military courts trying suspected Republicans . |
| 5 | They remain like this motionless with the woman stemming any premature ejaculatory urges by squeeze control , if the need arises . |
| 6 | In the wild this may allow them to escape as the predator may lose interest in them , but in the laboratory the length of time they remain in this state before righting themselves is a good measure of their fear level . |
| 7 | In the main , staff have to complete a qualifying period of service ( often two or three years ) before they qualify for this . |
| 8 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 9 | Any existing members who believe they qualify for this new rating category from the 1st May next should contact the Autocover staff at Frank Glennon Limited who will arrange for their premiums to be adjusted from their next renewal date . |
| 10 | Many of the topics they raise during this election campaign do not interest us at all . |
| 11 | Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year . |
| 12 | They compensate for this by gaining water from their food both through the workings of their powerful kidneys , which extract much of the water from the urine , and by the condensation of water during breathing . |
| 13 | But , they 're going to be made on , in fact , it 's going to be pushed rather heavily they change to this new system , and they 're going to have to meet some of the costs of development of the new system . |
| 14 | While second homes consist merely of properties no longer wanted as first homes they cause relatively few problems ; but when they grow beyond this , political , social , economic and environmental problems arise . |
| 15 | Well they , they grow from this er green to white to red and then finally black , do n't like black berries Stefan so that would be a no no as far as I was concerned in my garden . |
| 16 | The meanings and purposes they attach to this behaviour are largely inconsequential . |
| 17 | When I ask the people of the estate what they want from this election some say they want Cheviot to rebuild it and others that it would be better grassed over . |
| 18 | Both Susan and Father Martin have said that although they disagree on this issue , they can do so in love . |
| 19 | But ask them why they interact in this way and they will eventually pass you on to a scientist who ( no matter how many equations they might try to confuse you with ) in the end can only say ‘ Well , that 's the way things are ’ . |
| 20 | Where such activities are undertaken in-house , they appear in this report in Scotch Whisky industry direct employment figures . |
| 21 | Martin Sinnatt , Club Secretary of the Kennel Club , explained that they object to this on the grounds of potential cruelty — not because indelibly marking a dog would hurt , but because they fear unscrupulous owners would try to remove the mark before dumping an unwanted pet . |
| 22 | The good standing of the exams , and thus — in the long run — of the profession itself , depends heavily on individuals ' willingness to put something back into the qualification from which they have benefited , and on the support that they receive in this endeavour from their employing organisations . |
| 23 | It is to the shame of this Tory government that er er our senior citizens have to struggle to feed and clothe themselves and to try to keep warm , and as inadequate pensions that they receive from this government if you compare the way in the other European countries what they get and what the British government gives to our old age pensioners , our senior citizens they 're more they 're worse off than actually second class citizens . |
| 24 | At the simplest level , these may include the need for food and security ; but they range beyond this to the need felt by self-actualisation man to realise his own full potential . |
| 25 | Whether in practice they act in this way has not been established convincingly . |
| 26 | The it comes straight from the coa from the er mines and it 's it 's sent through chutes on these merry-go-round railways that go slow and they stop over this and then it 's all pulverized with heavy steel balls into powder and coal and into the furnaces it 's just blown in . |
| 27 | Some cat owners notice that their cats become wool-suckers at a certain age and they worry about this apparently abnormal behaviour . |
| 28 | I wonder briefly why they speak in this telegram way when they have something important to say . |
| 29 | I think we 're auditioning for summat when they listen to this . |
| 30 | The debates will turn out to be less clear and clean than they seem in this outline . |