Example sentences of "they [vb base] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that means that even the AS/400 is potentially at risk , and can only continue to be a winner if IBM builds in a big discount to compensate for the fact that it is proprietary — yet instead of recognising this vulnerability , with its incredible but consistent short-termism , the company is squeezing AS/400 users until they squeal with its software pricing on the machine . |
| 2 | They puke with great accuracy and surprising range . |
| 3 | They fear for their own livelihoods if it is closed . |
| 4 | They fear in their hearts there will be no survivors . |
| 5 | In their first scene together , where Fluellen begins with a feeling of respect for Pistol 's bravery at the bridge ( how obtained we know not ) , they dispute about the iconography of the goddess Fortune , Pistol in verse , Fluellen in prose , more coherently ( III.vi.20–60 ) . |
| 6 | They like foreigners so much that they dispute with one another as to who shall have and treat a foreigner in his house . |
| 7 | The agreement , the first of its kind between a company and an indigenous group , aims to ensure that the Kayapo benefit from any commercial development of other materials which they harvest on their lands . |
| 8 | They lay for a while catching their breath , then returned to Nettles . |
| 9 | They lay for a while , their hands lightly clasped , each deeply engrossed in their own thoughts . |
| 10 | They lay for a little , amicably holding hands . |
| 11 | Indeed there are those who rely to such an extent on the time they gain for reading on trains that travelling by road is not an option . |
| 12 | The economic and social position of this upper class is determined by their ownership of productive wealth , and the substantial incomes they gain through such ownership . |
| 13 | It 's not relative , because anybody who does er more er er a great number of miles , then you would i i imagine that because they do this amount of miles that their ability would be overall better because of the experience they gain by doing to extra miles . |
| 14 | Kangaroos can sustain speeds of up to 25 km/h for long periods ; but what they gain in the springs , they lose as pendulums . |
| 15 | Paradoxically these works gain in subtlety of gesture and meaning as they gain in size . |
| 16 | On the other hand , what they gain in power they lose in speed and mobility . |
| 17 | A central problem in teacher education has been how to get student teachers to apply in the classroom the insights they gain in their education courses , so that their teaching becomes intelligently skillful . |
| 18 | It would be more effective to involve people by education , by making them part of the system so that they gain from helping , to give them a vested interest in maintaining the integrity of the ecosystem and the wildlife around them — very much cheaper than a law force , WWF and CITES secretariats . |
| 19 | It has the advantage for believers of saving them from having to invent their own personal neurosis , and they gain from the social nature of religion rather than the purely private character of a personal neurosis . |
| 20 | They 're gon na gain from that or they 're gon na be seeing that they think they gain from that and all you 've got ta get over to the members we 're gon na be a cohesive force and that we 're going , we are going to fight some day together for them . |
| 21 | There also needs to be a plan for evaluating the project and the librarian and the teacher should discuss the evaluation of the pupils ' ability to use the microcomputer ( technical skills ) and their ability to make use of the information they gain from the microcomputer ( information skills ) . |
| 22 | 11 May : The Mail defends the astronomical salaries of top business executives ( which they award to themselves ) from attack by the Archbishop of Canterbury . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most difficult skill for amateur performers to acquire , though , is the art of speaking to microphone at a constant voice level : most tend to start off strongly as they launch into their speeches , but gradually tail off as they reach the end . |
| 24 | Then they launch into this routine . |
| 25 | It is a combat zone which they concede to the predators until morning , when they drive out their cattle again past sleeping lions and strangely reticent hyena . |
| 26 | His pizza slices certainly rekindle memories of the good old days in football … they taste like Dubbin . |
| 27 | Er I du n no , I do n't like crusts I think they taste like shit . |
| 28 | They taste like brussel sprouts |
| 29 | So as much as the reviewers ' preferences shine through , I still feel that they review without prejudice . |
| 30 | But the winners make up with the size of their winnings what they lack in numbers . |