Example sentences of "they [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And upon the way they round a leper , struggling in a quagmire , who cried out to them with a loud voice to help him for the love of God ; and when Rodrigo heard this , he alighted from his beast and helped him , and placed him upon the beast before him , and carried him with him in this manner to the inn where he took up his lodging that night . |
| 2 | The feminists had marched in thousands when David Laing MP , in his maiden speech , urged married women to give up their jobs because ‘ there is so much to do at home ’ ; they sabotaged a cricket pitch ( cricket being ‘ male idleness elevated into a religion ’ ) etching into the grass with acid their crudest symbol : a round-cornered diamond to represent a vulva , with a large clitoris and no opening . |
| 3 | They inserted a truncheon into his anus . |
| 4 | The weavers valued them more highly , however , and responded with a fourteen-week strike during which they inserted a notice in the Ipswich Journal . |
| 5 | They lacked a dimension , |
| 6 | Are many of our women politicians the little girls who refused to recognise the unwelcome fact that they lacked a penis and , defiantly rebellious , exaggerated their masculinity … ? |
| 7 | Great passing ; good running , but they lacked a knockout punch . |
| 8 | If they fear a fall in prices , selling a future or acquiring a put option are alternatives to selling the underlying securities . |
| 9 | They fear a backlash from the war . |
| 10 | They fear that responsibilities and attitudes once a prominent part of a teacher 's life may no longer be regarded as essential ; they fear an erosion of the teacher 's role and status , and see changes as signalling moves to squeeze him out of concerns that were and are rightly his . |
| 11 | They fear an end to the open outcry system and a lack of arbitrage opportunities on the new system . |
| 12 | Rank had funded his forays into production on the back of profits accruing from the exhibition of US pictures but , instead of standing firm with the American companies when they announced a boycott of British screens , he decided to boost his own company 's production . |
| 13 | Early in 1991 , they announced an extension to their popular Graphical User Interface , Windows 3 which has itself sold nearly 2.5 million copies since it was launched in May 1990 . |
| 14 | And they revealed a taxi driver may hold vital evidence about events that night . |
| 15 | They owned a circus tent with its own seating and turned their hands to most of the acts , but have not been able to pay debts estimated at £60,000 or more . |
| 16 | The Tallentires were staunch Chapel folk even though they owned a pub . |
| 17 | They owned a freehold tenement that stood close to the north door of the church and another small tenement in Houlston township , which they normally let to tenants . |
| 18 | Yeah , it was erm you did n't have to go that far out but they ha they owned a bit of land and stuff |
| 19 | They were rather better off than most , I think , and they owned an inn called New Spittal , between Bowes and Brough , over to the west . |
| 20 | They also like things which are quite so if the activity involving chairing a meeting , doing a role play , doing a presentation although they may be nervous they actually enjoy that , they find they gain a lot from that and they also like activities where to an extent there 's a freedom from constraints , policy structures , they do n't like to feel bound because if you think about it a lot of are actually exploring deep end situations trying new things out , they do n't like to feel that constrained . |
| 21 | As they came round a bend they met a lorry overtaking a tractor . |
| 22 | And as they met a passion exploded between them ; a hunger that terrified Folly with its intensity . |
| 23 | Half way along they met a woman . |
| 24 | But when convoys of vehicles arrived at the sites to start their planned test drilling in August 1986 they met a blockade of people sitting in the road . |
| 25 | En route they met a number of people they knew , hearing their stories and telling their own . |
| 26 | Proposals , submitted through the Co-ordinator , would have to be assessed by the Group to ensure that they met a number of criteria . |
| 27 | When coalition ministers began to bring forward legislation in 1919 they met a hail of criticism , from Liberals hostile to decontrol and Unionists lukewarm on social reconstruction . |
| 28 | With the catapults they use to keep birds from the crops , they launch a couple of parting stones far over my head . |
| 29 | Many of the UK 's rarest birds of prey are under continuing threat of persecution , claim the RSPB as they launch a campaign to raise £400,000 to help eradicate the problem . |
| 30 | they expected , they expected a lot of er applications . |