Example sentences of "they [verb] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | German software products company SAP AG , Walldorf , and Microsoft Corp have scheduled a press conference in Munich today , at which they are expected to announce ‘ something beyond ’ the agreement to put SAP 's R/2 and R/3 suites up under Windows NT , which they announced this week . |
2 | ‘ They owned this kind of enclave on the coast just outside Ajaccio — like a kind of tourist village — that 's where they kept the women , really , while they were away on business . |
3 | But however enthusiastically they cultivated this aura , Australians were bound to feel themselves second-class citizens . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | They review this possibility annually and he explained that when they have identified children who will go back they let them go into mainstream school for at first a morning and then one day a week . |
6 | Here are just a few examples of the rave reviews they got this year : |
7 | well she got what she wanted then , whatever it is anyway , she 's keeping him virtually and they got this flat , whatever they 've got , and erm |
8 | And they had a system where erm they got this information and they It was that they I think there there was something about the time element , it had to happen at a certain time |
9 | But I always remember they got this snap of whisky , the men got a nip of whisky and the women got a glass of wine when they come in . |
10 | I du n no what it is but they 're about that long and about that round and then they got this trigger like you similar what you do on the Vax hold the trigger . |
11 | They had lived with her for three months before they got this place , and it had been three months too long as far as he was concerned . |
12 | ‘ They got this skull and put candles inside it . ’ |
13 | Roses and orchids are too obviously beautiful , and so they lack this remnant of grace : maybe , if there is any harmony left for us to discover , maybe we shall as soon apprehend it in dog shit or an old man 's spittle , sizzling on the grate . |
14 | Well I get involved in it in so many different ways erm this is a difficult one , but one of the things that happens is that a number of teachers , both from the area and elsewhere , erm do advanced courses at the university and as part of these courses we have a unit on evaluation , and for this they will choose some area of their school work which they and their colleagues — and I emphasise that this is something they do have to involve their colleagues back at school in very much — erm feel it would be useful to look at and then they try and discuss with their colleagues what aspects of it are important and significant and what ought to be seen , and they bring this discussion back and we all discuss together there 'll be different teachers working on different problems the different ways in which they could approach this problem and how they might most usefully be able to do it and at the end of the exercise they will have found out quite a lot about this particular area of teaching and very often we find that the people they 've consulted have themselves got quite interested in it and begun to realize that it 's not being done in a way that 's there to threaten them , they 're not sending a report to the headmaster or the Chief Education Officer or anything like that — it 's for the benefit of the people doing the work themselves . |
15 | The West Indian families have different values — they still put a lot of faith in education , but it 's the way they bring this home to the kids that causes the problems . |
16 | And then sh like , you know how sometimes in the , an old dance routine they put a coat on the woman and everything , she 's dancing and they bring this coat towards her and she goes like that and it 's a straight jacket . |
17 | Were they given this breathing space it would give them a chance to be less edgy about Olwyn . |
18 | Why should they make this journey of three and a half thousand miles , just to lay their eggs and by doing so commit their young to make a similar journey in reverse to find their feeding grounds ? |
19 | Why do they make this distinction ? |
20 | I do n't know , they did n't ask to see me before they made this decision . |
21 | And she said about the she said about this er when they made this malt . |
22 | Comments such as ‘ a history of childhood abuse is both hip and horrible , the rock'n'roll statement with knobs on ’ do not encourage other men to discuss the issue , nor do they treat this subject with the seriousness it deserves . |
23 | So even if ministerial loyalties make it hard to admit it , he probably shares the apprehension which haunts many others as they contemplate this Bill : that though , at the end of the day , quantity will increase , quality will diminish ; or to put it in a form of words which trips easily off Conservative lips on other occasions — that More is going to mean Worse . |
24 | Many parents can put their finger on a moment or incident when they experienced this transition , which they often mark as rebellion . |
25 | I 'm never sure if they eat this weed cos it does n't look as if it 's going anywhere . |
26 | David Radcliffe , marketing director for Hogg Robinson 's 206 shops , for which they produced this week the latest edition of a four-volume in-house resort hotel guide to 1750 establishments , points out that his chain is already ‘ segmented on tailor-made , seat-only and bed-only markets ’ . |
27 | think that the effects of training should be the main focus of research on gender differences in spatial abilities , but they connect this programme to ‘ a sincere wish to see what cognitive sex differences might remain if the sexes were treated without discrimination ’ ( 1986 : 1017–18 ) . |
28 | Even though most of the working-class women had low skill , repetitive jobs , they picked out certain qualities of these jobs as satisfying by comparison with housework , and they shared this tendency with the middle-class women . |
29 | Discussing the proposals of Holland and Benn designed to rectify the short-fall in investment in the British economy they make this point : |
30 | Eventually they divided this process into sixty-four stages ; In the Book of Changes each stage is represented by a hexagram — a six-line figure made up of whole and broken lines . |