Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 32 | I made my original prediction because I believed that , whatever people said , once they got into a polling booth , lots of them simply would n't vote for Kinnock . |
| 33 | One produced a gun before they got into a yellow Ford Escort and drove off . |
| 34 | They got into a big car and drove away . |
| 35 | But then , by a makeshift badge stall surrounded by litter and empty cider bottles , they got into a group of people before a West African busker . |
| 36 | Somehow they got into a game of Prisoners . |
| 37 | a doctor and they got into a nursery place |
| 38 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 39 | Surely you do n't actually believe all that stuff in the papers about how it was so much better in the old days , but then they got in a bunch of yuppies and ruined it all by going down-market and yoof-crazed , do you ? |
| 40 | And anytime they got in a fix , they called on the children to lift paper masks ( given out free and serving as a programme on the reverse ) to their faces and give a special Care Bear Stare at the stage to overcome Coldheart 's evil intent . |
| 41 | You know , sort her meals out and then come back home that 's why she wants them to move in with her , cos they got like a little self contained flat there |
| 42 | Until they got within a hundred yards , |
| 43 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 44 | Forms of words that suggested , for example , that nature abhorred a vacuum were abhorrent to him , because they amounted to a deification of nature . |
| 45 | The federal Appeals Court in San Francisco had dismissed the case prior to trial on the grounds that even if Malcolm had manufactured the quotes , they remained legitimate because they amounted to a " rational interpretation " of what Masson had said . |
| 46 | They no longer guard harems ; instead , as in the Mahabharata , they dance for a living . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | With other foreigners they account for a quarter of trading . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | As you can see from Table 16.2 , they account for a tiny fraction of total assets . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | At the beginning of his reign in the parliament of 1307 they assented to a fifteenth , but seven more years passed before the clergy again conceded any more : York province offered a small sum to ward off the Scots in 1314 , and Canterbury reluctantly , and upon certain conditions , granted a tenth in January 1315 . |
| 54 | 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 ) . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 57 | ‘ They lived at a place called the Half House . |
| 58 | Where once they lived on a beach now their home is part of a toxic wasteland . |
| 59 | They lived inside a person 's body and wriggled about until their presence drove him to distraction . |
| 60 | After several months ' work , during which time they lived in a caravan parked on the site , the owners , Mr and Mrs Bates were able to move into the future garage area of the building in August 1984 and to continue work on the upper-floor accommodation under the shelter of the reslated roof . |