Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 2 | What distinguishes the series of Criminal Justice Acts is the comprehensiveness with which they bring together a range of generally disparate proposals , originating from different sources , bearing on the content of the criminal law , the powers and procedure of the courts , and the treatment ( in the widest sense ) of offenders . |
| 3 | They bring together a range of information not otherwise collected . |
| 4 | They cite instead a report by representatives of Ramsar , the international wetlands convention , which warns that extensive mining would be sure to cause irreparable damage to the area . |
| 5 | Is the first offer that they make simply an opening shot ? |
| 6 | Drug-users sharing needles contaminated with HIV are likely to be infected within less than five years if they inject once a week , and within three months if injecting 20 times a week . |
| 7 | They feel a bit beleaguered here , and they cause quite a sensation when they walk about in the streets with their long hair ( the men , I mean ! ) . |
| 8 | They cost just a pound a copy to produce , so why do we pay so much for them in the shops ? |
| 9 | Brazil will fill Wembley next March and if they show just a fraction more ambition near goal it will be a night to remember . |
| 10 | By 1978 British Rail and the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français ( SNC ) had started planning a single track rail tunnel for through rail services , commonly known as the Mousehole , and they put forward a plan to the governments in 1979 . |
| 11 | They put forward a number of suggestions . |
| 12 | They are alleged to send the ball further but I 'm not sure that they put even a yard on a shot . |
| 13 | ‘ They put together a group of people like Take That ! , who did n't even know each other until they formed — not that I 'm knocking them , because they 've got more front than we have — but it 's not going to work unless it 's real , ’ gripes Tony . |
| 14 | But company executives accept that there must have been a leak as they put together a financing package to back their bid for Dixons . |
| 15 | They lie there a minute , looking up at the ceiling . |
| 16 | I like Marshalls in the studio if a heavy sound is called for , but I find they vary quite a lot . |
| 17 | They meet once a year , you know , to a kind of get together for |
| 18 | What happens when it burns or explodes , so the okay , the potassium nitrate and the carbon and the sulphur burn and they give quite a bit of er C O two . |
| 19 | They present both a problem and a challenge ; for any theory which overcame them would vindicate a form of holistic social explanation of a power hitherto unaccepted . |
| 20 | They set aside a room for Howard to work in , when he 's not labouring outside with an axe or a scythe . |
| 21 | Apparently they get quite a charge our of Viz 's thick-headed puns and lame sexual and excremental allusions which , when they were first heard in burlesque halls a hundred years ago , were already ancient . |
| 22 | No doubt some bolt-protected routes have valuable qualities , but in general , particularly in the easier grades , they offer merely a form of fool 's gold . |
| 23 | Even those who dissent are required to act as if they agree once a course of action has been decided upon , and if there is blame , it is shared by all . ’ |
| 24 | They do quite a lot of stuff in there . |
| 25 | We are publicized anyway by Eurostep and they do quite a lot of publicity — how effective their publicity is I do n't know , but we our publicity is as a back up to existing publicity . |
| 26 | It 's too much of a journey ai n't it , they do quite an amount there I think still |
| 27 | Rhodes ( 1981 , p. 17 ) observes that ‘ although central government has an impressive list of controls at its disposal they constitute only a potential for control ’ . |
| 28 | This is despite the fact that they carry only a minority of the 13 stigmata of weediness . |
| 29 | Yeah they come they come once a week do n't they ? |
| 30 | Well they achieve quite a lot . |