Example sentences of "they [vb base] with [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He watched them go with quiet satisfaction .
2 They puke with great accuracy and surprising range .
3 People who become ‘ mentally ill ’ develop psychological problems which affect their emotional moods and behaviour , and the way they communicate with other people .
4 Silver fish sighted , they brake ; down they flash with closed wings .
5 the position of the development of the productive forces is closely related to that of reproduction : the growth of the forces of production corresponds with expanded reproduction , when static they correspond with simple reproduction and their decline is expressed in the fact that an ever diminishing share of the periodically consumed products is replaced .
6 The position of the development of the productive forces is closely related to that of reproduction : the growth of the productive forces corresponds with expanded reproduction , when static they correspond with simple reproduction and their decline is expressed in the fact that an ever-diminishing share of periodically consumed products is replaced .
7 Stalling , orange feet spread , they land with gentle thuds beside their holes .
8 The possible words in the input are given semantic scores based on how well they combine with possible neighbouring words in the input .
9 The ionizing radiations to which people are subject are of varying types and , although they interact with living matter in a similar way , different types of radiation differ in their effectiveness in damaging a biological system .
10 It seems obvious that they are relevant but how precisely they interact with present behaviour is unclear .
11 Within this there are three particular concerns : the practical reasoning employed by ordinary policemen and women to help them accomplish routine duties ; how they interact with various sections of the public , from ethnic minorities to road users ; and how they perceive various aspects of police work , including the area within which they function and its people , what comprises ‘ real ’ police work , and what constitutes ‘ good ’ or competent practice .
12 What Brussels should do is to provide direct support for research students and equipment in the less advantaged areas provided they interact with major European collaborators .
13 These indices are usually validated against utilisation rates ( see above ) or by how well they correlate with various measures of morbidity available routinely .
14 However , active sleep is confined to periods when they sleep with closed eyes .
15 Denied political and civil space in most Arab society by undemocratic regimes of various kinds , many people make of such an image a confused by powerful instrument of criticism of their own rulers , never mind the powers which they associate with colonial history and contemporary world dominance .
16 Ask anyone familiar with the City what they associate with corporate finance and like as not you will be told ‘ red braces , long lunches , big mouths , broad concepts ’ .
17 In the nymph of the dragonfly Anax imperator the giant fibres run the length of the cord ( Fielden , 1960 ) ; they synapse with efferent fibres in the segmental nerves of the thoracic and abdominal ganglia and a rapid evasion response can be elicited by stimulating the afferent nerves from the paraprocts .
18 Lenders ' information needs are concerned with the ability of the government to meet its contractual obligations , as well as information that enables them to compare the return they receive with alternative investments .
19 ‘ The first time people see it they react with goggle-eyed wonder .
20 But it has taken many years for such discoveries to be accepted and acted upon , especially when they conflict with public convenience and related commercial interests , as the sad story of tobacco promotion and consumption shows .
21 They eat plants and animals which they kill with poisoned arrows .
22 They relax with sexy manga or violent computer games .
23 When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge .
24 They speak with other tongues , which is embarrassing and distasteful to many non-members of the Pentecostal scene .
25 They begin with simple movement exercises such as standing with the hands on the hips and very slowly rotating the head from right to left , then reversing the procedure .
26 Then there is the merchant class — discreet and acting behind political figures whom they control with large inducements and dealing in the import of foreign luxuries , and the export of rice , both legally and illegally .
27 He likes the days when nothing seems to happen , and rain runs down the windows , and through somebody else 's windows on the other side of the airwell you can see girls with piles of lacquered hair laughing and making sudden small self-conscious movements , as they flirt with young men in Italian-cut suits , silent behind the layers of glass .
28 Despite the problems they illustrate , they emerge with new feelings of community respect and call the film , South Valley Pride .
29 They emerge with large silicaplast containers , all exactly alike .
30 Again , they operate with similar typifications of who constitute the troublesome clients , based partly on experience but also heavily influenced by stereotypes of the educationally subnormal , one-parent families , families in whom historically crime runs , and so on .
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