Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 2 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 3 | They lay for a little , amicably holding hands . |
| 4 | They no longer guard harems ; instead , as in the Mahabharata , they dance for a living . |
| 5 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 6 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 7 | The three major schemes — the Library of Congress Classification Scheme , the Universal Decimal Classification Scheme and the Dewey Decimal Classification Scheme — are treated in most detail , since they account for a good proportion of classification practice . |
| 8 | As you can see from Table 16.2 , they account for a tiny fraction of total assets . |
| 9 | International referee Derek Bevan , who handled the World Cup final , agreed with Kirkpatrick , citing another area where law changes have had negative consequences : ‘ When the ball is fielded following a high kick from the attacking side the chasing forwards can close in and circle the catcher provided that they remain at a distance of 10 metres . |
| 10 | I agree with my hon. Friend that in the past the weakness when farmers have got together has been the quality of marketing and management that they bring to a project . |
| 11 | For example , some bonds might not pay coupons at all ( such bonds are called zero-coupon bonds , and they sell at a deep discount to their par values since all the reward from holding the bond comes in the form of capital gain rather than income ) ; some bonds make coupon payments that change over time , e.g. because they are linked to current market interest rates ( variable rate bonds or floating rate notes ) or to an index such as the retail price index ( index-linked bonds ) ; and some bonds make coupon payments only if the income generated by the firm that issued the bonds is sufficient , ( such bonds are known as income bonds ; unlike other bond-holders , an income bond-holder can not put the firm into liquidation if a coupon payment is not paid ) . |
| 12 | EVERY retailer , big or small , selling electrical and gas appliances , will be obliged to ‘ energy label ’ the items they sell under a European Commission proposal . |
| 13 | They hide behind a wall of friendly but hard line management . |
| 14 | The highest court in Britain is the House of Lords , but when they sit as a court the Lords consist only of a panel of members who have long judicial experience and who have been appointed as Law Lords . |
| 15 | These two items appear simply to be ghoulish trophies , since they sit on a table with other specimens of internal organs . |
| 16 | When you 're doing a melody like Rubina or Always With Me , Always With You they sit at a nice register , but the chorus , second verse of Cryin ’ is right up there , War is up there , Friends is up there . |
| 17 | If all the frogs pursue this policy , they sit in a tight clump . |
| 18 | Other birds of prey may also arouse strong responses if they sit in a conspicuous position during the daylight hours . |
| 19 | Thirty yards back along the street they sit in a murky Cavalier . |
| 20 | Anyway , so erm he said , but you know he was saying to them that er , it 's not just at the bottom end , he said , in our village in Wales we 've got the Sun have now positioned two reporters who have lived in the village the these the they sit in a car outside his house day and night |
| 21 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
| 22 | In general terms , developmentalists take the view that it should be possible to examine the ways in which infants and young children interact with the physical world and with other people and to determine how they change as a result . |
| 23 | They centre on a request for details of ‘ a private side-letter ’ alongside the final funding agreement from Lord Young , the then Trade and Industry Secretary , to British Aerospace . |
| 24 | The approach that involved marking individual plants or seedlings in the field , tracing the fate of individual leaves as they are pulled down earthworm burrows , the behaviour of tendrils as they touch a support , the fate of insects as they land on a Drosera leaf , or recording the number of seeds at the bottom of an earthworm burrow , represented a reductionist level of concentrated observation that contrasted with the geographical view of vegetation with which Warming and others set the early direction of plant ecology . |
| 25 | They land in a field among crop circles ( they bought crop circle footage off National Geographic , and when they watched it the only car you could see in it was — synchronicity ! — a red station wagon … ) and then pick up a hitch-hiking alien . |
| 26 | In a way , black sportsmen in Britain are responding to what they perceive as a challenge . |
| 27 | SENIOR figures in the Presbyterian Church are expressing concern at what they perceive as a ‘ media bias ’ against them when covering matters of public interest . |
| 28 | The snag is it means you ca n't rent a car : they insist on a credit card for that nowadays so you 're going to see America by bus . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Now , despite inflation and the many extra duties they have entrusted us with , they insist on a budget of £20.2m . |
| 30 | They insist in a new and serious appraisal of such ideas as radical liberalism/radical democracy , the community in the nation-state , the changing role of civil society ; in short , the form of the political self . |