Example sentences of "they [vb base] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 2 | ‘ Lots of women who have fine hair hanker after long , thick hair , so they grow it in the mistaken belief that the longer it gets , the more hair they have and the fuller it will look , ’ explained Charles . |
| 3 | When we have a little technical problem they transform it into a big one . ’ |
| 4 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 5 | No , they send it in a bloody big one . |
| 6 | They provide you with a short summary of the context to help you assess the tone of the extract . |
| 7 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 9 | These become almost like rituals as the cat grows older — little routines that reward the animal because they involve it in a social interaction with its owners or their guests . |
| 10 | They they deserve it to a certain extent . |
| 11 | they put her in a bloody trolley and oh course she said , this woman said erm |
| 12 | It was the way they put me on the right track that made me wonder — guiding angels in the Bible have a habit of appearing as two young men . |
| 13 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 14 | They put me in an isolated pit for the first few weeks . |
| 15 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 16 | Or they put them under the wrong door . |
| 17 | as most Easter eggs go to kids , they put them in a breakable cup , while they do n't put them in a plastic one or a melamine one |
| 18 | I wonder why they reduced them then , if they put them in the new catalogue , oh there 's a slight difference ai n't there , there 's no bow |
| 19 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 20 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 21 | When you die there they put you on a wooden platform below the sky and the vultures come and eat the body . |
| 22 | In reception they put you in a little cubicle like a wardrobe and you have to sit there for hours . |
| 23 | ‘ Even if they stop you on a busy shopping morning and ask you to sign petitions ? ’ |
| 24 | Sometimes they confuse me with the hon. Member for Walthamstow ( Mr. Summerson ) — I am the hon. Member for Wanstead and Woodford , and unemployment in my constituency has not risen to quite the extent that he suggests . |
| 25 | They project it through a special lens . |
| 26 | It is of course difficult to ‘ police ’ this objection , and there is a certain ambivalence in the attitude of some countries ; recognising the usefulness of postal service , they welcome it as a supplementary method designed to back up the ‘ official ’ service effected in other ways , but are unhappy to see the postal channel treated as appropriate or sufficient in itself . |
| 27 | In sufficient numbers innovation-weary teachers can make any change a change for the worse if they implement it in a resentful , half-hearted or half-baked fashion , and under these conditions even the brightest and the best schemes are going to flop . |
| 28 | They drop them from a light plane into snowdrifts . ’ |
| 29 | Clydebank make a practice of discomfiting clubs from the higher division when they meet them on the claustrophobic confines of their own pitch , as last season 's finalists , Airdrie , discovered when they were knocked out after a third-round replay . |
| 30 | … the people of Burma are friendly hospitable folk ; they meet you on a friendly equal basis , without cringing or self-assertion . |