Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] a certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | But let's have a look , as they say in a certain quiz show , at what he turned down . |
| 2 | If they are made to feel lesser , to any type of women they react with a certain machismo to try and subvert that . |
| 3 | Like dreams , they are wish-fulfilments ; like dreams , they are based to a great extent on impressions of infantile experiences ; like dreams , they benefit by a certain degree of relaxation of censorship . |
| 4 | They say girls go off horses when they get to a certain age . ’ |
| 5 | That maybe they get to a certain time when they 're going to be out of touch ? |
| 6 | Presumably perhaps they 're just saving it up until they get to a certain certain age and they 're gon na say right that 's it let's just go . |
| 7 | I think they do to a certain extent , but the teachers try and erm brush it away , they try and forget that they are soldiers ' children and try and help them mix in with the civilian children . |
| 8 | for a whole , W , to exist it is not normally enough merely that its parts exist , rather it is required that they exist in a certain arrangement , in a certain set of relations to each other . |
| 9 | When a complete spanning hypothesis has been found , competing hypotheses are rejected ( deleted ) if they fall below a certain threshold relative to the spanning theory . |