Example sentences of "they [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do they plant clover with the grass ? |
| 2 | The military skills and superior armaments of the two knights allow them to fight off their attackers and they gain admittance to the castle . |
| 3 | A number of courses give students an opportunity to go on a short relevant placement in an organization outside the University , where they gain experience of the world of work and in applying the skills they have learnt . |
| 4 | As they gain confidence in the therapist opportunities will arise again for these issues to be discussed . |
| 5 | ‘ They got hold of a cache of arms and other kit . |
| 6 | They got a bi they got tinsel around the aerial |
| 7 | and they got chaff from the farms you see , they were sent down before the fishing and they filled that and they lay on that . |
| 8 | It was decided that unless they got word of a change in direction from the scouts the Regent had sent to follow the enemy 's route , the Scots host , now numbering some thirteen thousand , would set off at first light , south-westwards , on a converging course . |
| 9 | They have theoretical knowledge and practical experience of language-teaching methods , but they lack knowledge of the methods and materials used to teach their native language as a foreign language in the UK , and have only limited familiarity with British secondary education — the school system , teacher and pupil roles and expectations , curricula , assessment and exams . |
| 10 | They lack commitment to the service , and they do not use it . |
| 11 | Talking to the researcher about South Africa , they voiced sympathy for the plight of black South Africans . |
| 12 | These rules are very important , because they bring consistency to the interpretation of leases and enable parties buying and selling leases and reversions to obtain more reliable advice on what their rights and liabilities are likely to be . |
| 13 | They gleamed gold in the lamplight . |
| 14 | They became part of the symbolic political language through which the riots were understood by policy makers and by popular opinion . |
| 15 | Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players . |
| 16 | Then they became part of the family-Ellwood as paterfamilias . |
| 17 | Around the mid sixth century the Greek cities of Asia Minor had come under the control of Croesus of Lydia , and when he fell to Cyrus of Persia in 546 they became part of the huge Persian empire . |
| 18 | This highlights another paradox of Soviet experience — the fact that the main elements of the growing economic crisis were known to Soviet officials and Western specialists long before they became part of the public political agenda on either side of the iron curtain . |
| 19 | So did did they think they were doing themselves a disservice then when they , maybe when they amalgamated , or when they became part of the boilermakers , or when the boilermakers started taking in various trades to approach the employers as a as a a black squad unit for wage rises and conditions and so on , or did they they Would they have preferred to have done it themselves do you think ? |
| 20 | They became part of the development game . |
| 21 | If they were unable to take part in hard productive work , they became surplus to the manpower requirements of the new industrial society . |
| 22 | Divested of their natural homes and hunting grounds , cut off from the renewable natural resources on which they depended , observing the continuing slaughter by visitors licensed to kill and construct , and disinherited from the financial or other benefits of these exercises , they became party to the most misguided and cynical game this century : the over-exploitation and destruction of the natural environment for the benefit of a few . |
| 23 | The examinations , tailored to be selective , make no concession to this , nor do they make allowance for the wide range of academic ability and preparedness among the candidates . |
| 24 | They even attacked art — especially ‘ modern art ’ — but while they made fun of the pre-War Cubists , Expressionists and futurists , they borrowed and transformed many of the principles and techniques of these earlier movements . ’ |
| 25 | They made music for the love of it . |
| 26 | They made allowance for a stale price effect in the index ( by including a first order moving average process ) , and used a GARCH ( 1,1 ) model to control for autocorrelation in the variance of the disturbances . |
| 27 | There was no sign of the dog as they made haste through the alders and up the field to the first hedgerow . |
| 28 | They walked to the edge of the tranquil water where Christina wrapped her long , slim legs around him , and they made love with the warm Caribbean lapping over them . |
| 29 | I expect they made love with the lights out . |
| 30 | At the age of sixteen , this writer had slept with an older , married friend of her Father ; she had arranged to meet him in a churchyard after dinner and they made love on a tombstone . |