Example sentences of "they [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do they plant clover with the grass ? |
| 2 | They emptied boxful after boxful on the counter , in front of the small boy — lions , bears , devils , witches ( pale green with hair made from real straw ) . |
| 3 | But what the Romans really needed from the Greeks was the description and interpretation of a foreign land as a whole ; they lacked orientation in ethnography . |
| 4 | One said that a lot of people did n't understand what Making Belfast Work was all about because they lacked information on it . |
| 5 | They lacked confidence in their own values . |
| 6 | Middlesbrough people fear crime generally more than other boroughs , but they fear burglary in particular . |
| 7 | They harvest currency by toiling silently before flickering screens , pressing keys like rosaries , or pushing papers ritually around office desks . |
| 8 | They lay side by side like effigies , both staring at the sky . |
| 9 | Exhausted they lay side by side watching the flames dance on the ceiling . |
| 10 | Now , re-aroused , he curled his body to hers and slid into her lazily , as they lay side by side . |
| 11 | They lay side by side , doing their relaxation exercises — deep breathing and total muscular relaxation from the feet up . |
| 12 | Their bodies were covered in a mist of moisture as they lay side by side . |
| 13 | The military skills and superior armaments of the two knights allow them to fight off their attackers and they gain admittance to the castle . |
| 14 | A number of courses give students an opportunity to go on a short relevant placement in an organization outside the University , where they gain experience of the world of work and in applying the skills they have learnt . |
| 15 | Their aim is to explore and describe the internal social systems that govern behaviour in these communities , and of course they gain access to these systems through studying overt behaviour in the communities . |
| 16 | The sufferers may not be able to see themselves but they can see each other and , by identifying features of themselves in the others , they gain insight into themselves and into their own disease . |
| 17 | As they gain confidence in the therapist opportunities will arise again for these issues to be discussed . |
| 18 | ‘ Once they gain confidence in communicating they go on to other courses . ’ |
| 19 | Now they expected information from him . |
| 20 | In return they got help with civilian nuclear power . |
| 21 | All about running for trains they could n't catch or being sat on by scaly monsters , and they got hold of books that told you that it meant Sex . |
| 22 | The crew were all clinging on to the side of the trawler and the last men off , Billy and John took 'em They got hold of them by one leg and they pulled them off . |
| 23 | ‘ They got hold of a cache of arms and other kit . |
| 24 | No it 's not it 's qu it 's quite disgraceful and nobody would approve of that and the co th th th th the Army if they got hold of anybody on that basis , they would court martial them immediately and they 'd be very severely dealt with . |
| 25 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 26 | They got hold of me and pushed me to the ground then they took the money in my pockets . |
| 27 | And imm and immediately they got hold of it they 've whopped the prices up too . |
| 28 | Most either thought it did n't matter as long as they got relief for their tension and frustration and saw it as a way of keeping the peace , but some were trying through women 's groups or assertion therapy to express themselves more honestly . |
| 29 | They got a bi they got tinsel around the aerial |
| 30 | and they got chaff from the farms you see , they were sent down before the fishing and they filled that and they lay on that . |