Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] they [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These costs include the re-filling of fire extinguishers or damage caused by the fire brigade to a building to enable them to put the fire out and would be covered under the fire section . |
| 2 | FUW leaders are now to lobby the UK Government and the EC in a bid to ensure they continue the level of current spending on the scheme . |
| 3 | Not for a moment had they considered the possibility . |
| 4 | If you want to go sailing , play volleyball or have a round of mini golf it wo n't cost you a penny and the kids can be left in the Pirates Club while you spend the afternoon doing things you want to do … but you may have a job persuading them to leave a few hours later . |
| 5 | The teenager left him alone to go to a disco but when she and a friend returned they found the child dead . |
| 6 | Most will have started yoga after watching it on television or because a friend invited them to join a local group . |
| 7 | Nearly half did n't know about the official guidelines and a quarter admitted they had no monitoring procedures . |
| 8 | But it says here should a tribunal require them to pay a basic award for compensation then that payment is on the basis that it 's offered and accepted in satisfaction er towards those payments . |
| 9 | And in all this , Joseph had learnt that Bligh 's proven and later much copied method of keeping off sickness , especially the scurvy , was to force fruit on his crew : fruit and exercise , for which purpose he carried a fiddler to make them dance every day . |
| 10 | A CAB driver and an unemployed man will make close to £2.5 million after a jury ruled they wrote the Fifties classic Why Do Fools Fall In Love ? |
| 11 | A spokesman said they saw no obstacles in principle to a meeting with Mr Major who , it was said , would be happy to see him . |
| 12 | She is now in Towers Hospital , Leicester , where a spokesman said they expected the family to break the news to her in the next few days . |
| 13 | A spokesman said they included the company 's legal duties and responsibilities to transport power , the need for the high-voltage overhead lines and pylons , route options , pylon design , undergrounding , electromagnetic fields and the environmental impact of the scheme . |
| 14 | At the emergency meeting Hamish Deans read out a statement saying they denied the charges , which related to payments amounting to £838 on club credit cards . |
| 15 | Slavery and white racism , Cutler argues , guaranteed the survival of a folk mode in the midst of capitalist society — at the same time as subjecting black people , as victims of this society , to an experience enabling them to represent a more general alienation characteristic of life under industrial capitalism . |
| 16 | After a mile or two which took an hour to cover they found the way blocked by sodden ground . |
| 17 | At a meeting of the Finance Committee members will pr , make a progress report on how the poll tax collection is going , and campaigners say they intend to put pressure on councillors in an attempt to get them to review the collection process . |
| 18 | Earlier , two Labour MPs , Brian Sedgemore and Tony Banks , were escorted from the hotel by police in an attempt to prevent them presenting a petition on behalf of 23 Pergamon Press workers sacked for going on strike . |
| 19 | A producer had fed them silly in an effort to woo them to do a film . |
| 20 | If trainees argue that the caring professions need always to be available to help with every problem , it would be an idea to ask them to make a list of five reasons and then submit these to open discussion . |