Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are most malicious when they prey on liars , murderers and thieves , for they hate to see injustice . |
| 2 | Presenting four pieces to music by k d lang , Penguin Cafe Orchestra and Arvo Part , they display electrifying energy , brilliant technique and extraordinary dynamism. ‘ … they 're glorious ’ Pittsburg Press |
| 3 | At least Jeremy Seabrook 's cut-out cardboard teenage figures of abject horror and pity know , as they sit sniffing glue and planning how to knock off a video recorder , that the world owes them something , that they have a right to the earth , an attitude at least as subversive as the endurance " that is the result of not being ever given very much . |
| 4 | ( They sit facing front . ) |
| 5 | They intend to submit funding applications to the Global Environment Facility . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , Sage feels the system has its attractions for small businesses , particularly if they intend to network Sage software and want guarantees of system compatibility . |
| 8 | They intend to destroy Pool . ’ |
| 9 | It is amazing what we hear from Opposition Members , when they intend to cut defence expenditure . |
| 10 | One reason that he ruled out was the argument , derived from earlier cases , that fights in public should be prohibited because they tend to create disorder . |
| 11 | They tend to treat language as an unproblematic expression of women 's experience , and they are too directed by the need for feminist change to do justice to the unconscious . |
| 12 | ‘ The fact is they tend to watch TV after 9pm when they 're back from the pub . ’ |
| 13 | However , they are not always offered study leave or proper in-service training to achieve these qualifications , and so they tend to use school hours to do their own work rather than concentrating on their students . |
| 14 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Girls come up against an obstacle or two , maybe on tour , and they tend to give way instead of trying to overcome them . ’ |
| 16 | Many would readily accept the limitations of subjects as a basis for analysing the curriculum because , for example , they tend to emphasise cognition while ignoring affective aspects of education . |
| 17 | Unless stomach acids have a job to do in digesting food they tend to cause discomfort , and dieters often find themselves turning to extra food to quell that unpleasant acidic feeling when the stomach is largely empty . |
| 18 | I know they tend to like match reports sent in ( ‘ white watching ’ ) . |
| 19 | ‘ States of mind , ’ Richards says ( 1967 : 45 ) , ‘ are valuable in the degree in which they tend to reduce waste and frustration . ’ |
| 20 | For small cichlids it is possible , for example , to use nylon net curtains as gravel tidies , but these would be no good when it comes to large cichlids as they tend to get hold of the soft material and pull it out of place . |
| 21 | No , but , even , even some of those erm the only thing is they tend to get work and they tend not to tell you they 've done it . |
| 22 | They tend to regard grammar as the touchstone of all language performance . |
| 23 | In brief , he reports that as children of average and above-average ability mature as writers they tend to produce writing of increasing length ; they write longer and more complex sentences ; they employ a greater variety of clause types ; and they tend to use personal pronouns less . |
| 24 | They tend to focus attention on the state and the implications that flow from the capitalist economic base . |
| 25 | The explanation for the high level of institutional investment may lie partly in the fact that UK investors accept that some other investors operate with superior knowledge , and that rather than be forced out of the market altogether they tend to make use of institutional intermediaries such as Pensions Funds . |
| 26 | They make electroplating equipment for other manufatcturers . |
| 27 | Even when a new field seems overcrowded there is usually good business still to be had because the field itself expands under the pressure of the newcomers as they advertise to gain market share . |
| 28 | It is not a very demanding version of the chase , especially on Sundays , when you may well see rows of gunmen in position only a few easy yards from the hotel where they mean to have lunch . |
| 29 | If they want to watch television , they do that ; if they want to walk around , they walk around , some do their own thing like reading or games . |
| 30 | THE thousands of Welsh supporters who have been pouring into the Edinburgh area for the past two days are well catered for if they want to sample club rugby before tomorrow 's Royal Bank international , writes Harry Pincott . |