Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They gain many things , from qualifications to self-awareness and confidence . |
| 32 | They gain wide experience of different types of hardware and many varied programming languages . |
| 33 | School leavers , or inexperienced people joining the industry often get jobs in riding schools or competition yards where they gain practical experience . |
| 34 | ‘ They gain more experience by tackling the job themselves . ’ |
| 35 | They gain more fulfilment from the jobs and in the end , backed by a high level of innovation , they produce a better product . |
| 36 | Alternatively , the prices could be adjusted somehow so that they met total costs . |
| 37 | They met Prime Minister Metaxas in Greece , Kemal Ataturk in Turkey , and King Boris in Bulgaria . |
| 38 | In two days of talks in Belgrade on May 30-31 , during which they met federal leaders and all the presidents of the republics , Jacques Delors , President of the EC Commission , and Jacques Santer , the Luxembourg Prime Minister and current chair of the EC Council of Ministers , had confirmed that the EC was ready to help a democratized and reformed Yugoslavia , with unchanged internal and external borders . |
| 39 | The 1967 Abortion Act made it possible for women to get abortions if they were in the early stages of pregnancy and could persuade two doctors that they met certain criteria . |
| 40 | You see , I was with her when they met one day in the rose-garden and I watched their faces as they talked together . ’ |
| 41 | cars be permitted to make the lengthy journey out to Finchley and back down the other road to Cricklewood and Willesden , where they met other L.C.C . |
| 42 | Last year they met Civil Service in the preliminaries and the year before it was Muckross . |
| 43 | They met 45 times over two years and prepared reports which were circulated to the other members of the International Commission and to the editors of the more important chemistry journals . |
| 44 | The Pims dashed around all parts of the aquarium having brief but energetic skirmishes when they met each other , but no actual physical damage was suffered from the skirmishes . |
| 45 | But if they met each other , Lewis … ? |
| 46 | The Secretary of State threatened the recalcitrant authorities that unless they met specific targets he would use his power under the Act to appoint an agent to take over the sale of a council 's houses . |
| 47 | They met 11 years ago and married six months after Jim Henson 's death . |
| 48 | They met four years ago in the London run of the musical Godspell . |
| 49 | The officially published diaries of Ceauşescu 's engagements reveal that Yasser Arafat was his most frequent guest : on average they met six times a year and saw each other for the last time only a month before the revolution . |
| 50 | For the uninitiated , they met 18 months ago , enjoying a common outlook on music and deciding to take it from there . |
| 51 | The new version of the directive , which had received the assent of the European Parliament ( EP ) on Nov. 22 , and which was due to come into force in January 1993 , allowed providers of financial services the right , in principle , to trade anywhere in the EC provided that they met minimum standards ( the so-called " single passport " concept ) . |
| 52 | When they met this month , Mr Kohl made it clear that he wanted an agreement on EMU that does not oblige Britain to accept a single currency before it is ready to do so . |
| 53 | They met several times more up to 1985 , but seem to have remained in touch until the last few months of Ceauşescu 's rule . |
| 54 | Although they met several times a day and were on good terms , the chief superintendent always felt uncomfortable in the commander 's presence : he was an earnest , church-going man who never laughed , never drank , never swore and rarely showed emotion . |
| 55 | They met some girlfriends of Jessica 's , and ended up having cakes and coffee and a laugh . |
| 56 | By 0900hrs the Japanese were back to raid other specified targets , this time they met some opposition in the air , several American fighters were now airborne but the pilots had no combat experience so the Japanese had the advantage . |
| 57 | They met some time in ‘ thirty-eight , I gather . |
| 58 | The four categories of need chosen by the Authority varied considerably in the extent to which they met these conditions , at both LEA and school level . |
| 59 | Ronnie Cairns , a fluent Japanese speaker who acted as interpreter , said : ‘ They met these boys in Botanic Gardens and were chatted up . |
| 60 | They met seven North West MPs to ask for backing for a bid to get a change in legislation to allow workers to stay in the UKAEA pension scheme after the site 's commercial uranium enrichment business is transferred to Urenco in September . |