Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 2 | They fear for their own livelihoods if it is closed . |
| 3 | They fear in their hearts there will be no survivors . |
| 4 | The agreement , the first of its kind between a company and an indigenous group , aims to ensure that the Kayapo benefit from any commercial development of other materials which they harvest on their lands . |
| 5 | A central problem in teacher education has been how to get student teachers to apply in the classroom the insights they gain in their education courses , so that their teaching becomes intelligently skillful . |
| 6 | Perhaps the most difficult skill for amateur performers to acquire , though , is the art of speaking to microphone at a constant voice level : most tend to start off strongly as they launch into their speeches , but gradually tail off as they reach the end . |
| 7 | They account for our general sense of the appropriacy and inappropriacy of language as reflected in impromptu observations about style , varying from Queen Victoria 's remark on Mr Gladstone that " he speaks to Me as if I were a public meeting " , to more everyday comments like " No one would ever speak like that " , and to attributions like colloquial , journalistic , biblical , childlike , pedantic . |
| 8 | Whether they remain in their own homes , move to a new one nearer relatives or close friends , move in with sons or daughters , or into sheltered or residential accommodation — all need to be considered . |
| 9 | Again discontinuity of experience marks the lives of these children , despite the fact that they remain in their own homes all along . |
| 10 | Certainly , there is substantial observable and anecdotal evidence that , in the cases of many of our leading frontpersons , qualities other than modesty and friendliness rank highest among the energies they bring to their profession . |
| 11 | So often they bring to their training elements drawn from their own experience of school . |
| 12 | If our work with pupils is based on valuing what they bring to their lessons , and using this as a basis for development , then the element of chance can be minimised . |
| 13 | When they are questioned on the attitudes , motivations and beliefs they bring to their tasks , strongly held schemas will often become obvious quite quickly to the trained observer who knows what he ( or she ) is looking for . |
| 14 | Multicultural mathematics should start from the children in our classes and the rich variety of cultures that they bring to our school with them . |
| 15 | In Yorkshire when man goes into a decline during his wife 's pregnancy they giggle behind their hands and say he is " carrying " the baby , I never laugh at these remarks because I am convinced I " carried " my son . |
| 16 | They concentrate on their inner reserves . |
| 17 | Unless it 's a special offer , companies are n't obliged to stick to the prices they display in their ads . |
| 18 | Unless it 's a special offer , companies are n't obliged to stick to the prices they display in their ads . |
| 19 | They introduce into our austerities their Italianate blandishments . |
| 20 | No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it . |
| 21 | Well I would , I should go up there and have a word with Carole and Brian cos they sit on their own all christmas virtually ! |
| 22 | I also make the rule that , before a person has had a turn , they sit with their legs crossed and afterwards place them out in front . |
| 23 | They sit in their cells , brooding over Jesus , do n't they ? |
| 24 | Young babies can sometimes look so uncomfortable when their heads loll and wobble about as they sit in their car seat or carrier . |
| 25 | It is by no means clear how farmers would react to any system which threatened to control their freedom to do as they please with their own land . |
| 26 | If the process of nursing is seen as a problem-solving activity in which the nurse acts on her own initiative generating her own solutions , rather than one in which she repeats ready-made solutions ; and if the reasoning of the cognition theorists is accepted as valid ; then the teaching of nursing should be organised in such a way that the student not only acquires the necessary knowledge and skills , but does so in such a way that they develop in her flexible cognitive structures . |
| 27 | But fish never stop growing from the day they hatch to their death , even if the growth rate slows dramatically once they attain sexual maturity . |
| 28 | The fact that the goods are of defective quality is usually irrelevant in deciding whether they correspond with their description . |
| 29 | On the one hand we have the beguiling image of independent DNA replicators , skipping like chamois , free and untrammelled down the generations , temporarily brought together in throwaway survival machines , immortal coils shuffling off an endless succession of mortal ones as they forge towards their separate eternities . |
| 30 | The idea is to throw an opponent so that they land on their back , fairly hard . |