Example sentences of "they [verb] a special [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malatie and her husband were prepared to make sacrifices so that their children might get a decent education : they were paying for two of them to attend a special boarding school for Harijans . |
| 2 | None of them made a special selection of materials suitable for the peasantry , so the few books that were dispatched were often too dry or too expensive . |
| 3 | For example , a man with a hundred head of cattle , sheep and goats trains his son to know them by their colour only or by their size and type of horns , while every one of them has a special name . |
| 4 | As I was an officer , they devised a special treat for me : they raped my wife and my ten-year-old daughter in front of me , three of them to each , sticking their penises into each of the gateways . |
| 5 | They made a special trip by 225 train to York , accompanied in the train 's cab by a British Rail line inspector . |
| 6 | The old boys said it were a gift from the elder gods and they built a special shrine for it in the square . ’ |
| 7 | And they say a special operation called Gemini which puts extra officers on the street to catch the burglars and car thieves is paying off . |
| 8 | The blissfully happy couple had been married quietly at the registry office in Dublin on Wednesday afternoon and yesterday they received a special blessing from a Catholic priest at a secluded hotel in the Wicklow Mountains . |
| 9 | They negotiated a special discount rate for a batch of 50 straps before making a submission for the new equipment to Group manufacturing and technical director Chris Johnson . |
| 10 | They dial a special number which faxes flight information to them , they can then book a flight direct — all accomplished , as the publicity handouts say , in three minutes using ‘ phone , fax and finger ’ . |
| 11 | So they ran , did they run a special train from Newmarket here ? |
| 12 | In other words , they assign a special status to ‘ scientific understanding ’ and allow for political engagement in the form of ‘ theoretical practice ’ . |
| 13 | Many various-sized painted plaster images are on sale and quite a number with large pieces broken off are being brought back in torn imitation plastic leather bags , only to have it explained that the purchasers probably have not been confessing enough and absolution is only granted by their completing a 13-page questionnaire through which they get a special adhesive that breaks all mends . |
| 14 | Do they have a special kind of ring round |
| 15 | ‘ Do they have a special mode ? ’ asked Lydia . |
| 16 | Jesus knew however , that before they would be ready to undertake this work they needed power , they needed a special power . |
| 17 | They took a special interest in the girls ' curriculum and , in keeping with the ‘ equal but different ’ philosophy , tended to promote the study of domestic subjects . |
| 18 | Subsequently , wrote Mrs Sadat , they felt a special kinship for they led the two most ancient civilisations in the middle east — " the Iranian Empire dating back 2500 years and Egypt 's civilization going back seven thousand . |
| 19 | We been in Cowley nick so many times they keep a special room for us and inside it 's got Eddie and Rich written on the walls — and they do n't bother to clean it off 'cos they know we 'll be back and write it up again … |
| 20 | SYDNEY WOODERSON and Zola Budd did not have much in common but they knew a special achievement and a peculiar failure . |
| 21 | Some companies now include a clause on the envelope stating they offer a special service under which they accept extra liability for a higher price . |
| 22 | And this er oh dear what was the name of it , they had a special title for the man that sort of ran the stall as they called it for getting the coal out and he he chose who he wanted to go to work . |
| 23 | ‘ They had a special route round the garden which was just about a mile , and they put one stone down every time they passed it ’ , the assistant gardener Fred Drury observed . |
| 24 | She knew it was right to go to London University because she hoped one day to teach in Africa , and they had a special course in education in relation to tropical areas . |
| 25 | Even the , what few bits of lorries were on the road , they had a special mask on with er a shield over the top , so that the light was n't visible up above . |
| 26 | They had a special relationship , stronger even than the normal father-daughter relationship . |
| 27 | Lying across the East-West divide , the Germans began to feel they had a special understanding of world peace , as well as that they had been singled out by the ‘ Great Powers ’ as Europe 's potential war playground . |
| 28 | But when I rung to take it , for them to take it back they had a special offer on and it was twelve weeks for forty pu , pa , you know , were doing it cheap |
| 29 | Sybil , up in Hampstead or with one of her many friends , kept the home fire burning and joined the gang when they had a special bash . |
| 30 | They had a special role in relation to stock-rearing and stock health and as the confidante and sounding board for the farmers ' problems . |