Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb mod] [vb infin] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also seems that it might be helpful if teachers were aware of those among their pupils with particularly unsupportive home lives , that is , with few sources outside school from which they might derive a sense of their own value . |
| 2 | Disabled and older patients who experience difficulty when rising from a chair will like most people , have their ‘ special ’ chair at home , out of which they can rise relatively easily , and on which they may hang a walking stick to help with safe rising . |
| 3 | He remembered how innocently they had discussed which natives they would blow to smithereens and which they would grant a reprieve to . |
| 4 | They speak on the European peoples party membership of committees , that is the only way in which they can find a voice in committees and they take their share of European peoples party 's funding from the European peoples party . |
| 5 | LOTUS Development and Word Perfect Corp have announced a technology partnership under which they will develop a user interface for Lotus 1-2-3/G and Word Perfect for OS/2 Presentation Manager . |
| 6 | Training in research methods is part of their preparation for their research projects on the basis of which they will write a dissertation . |
| 7 | Laura had learned , from the antique dress in the window of Gwalia House , the pulling power of a loss leader and she was not above producing one sample dress , never intended for general distribution , for the press , always hungry for a fashion article around which they could build a story . |
| 8 | Since the lawmakers were mostly of the creditor class , their attitude was to retain a statute by which they could obtain a writ for the arrest of their debtor and his detention at their will . |
| 9 | I bet you they 'll find a way of spending it all . |
| 10 | Tour thick skin needs to be in good working order when someone tells you they could get a jumper cheaper than yours at the ‘ Cheap Jack ’ shop in town . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh aye , I would say she was popular : anybody they can get a laugh out of is popular with thick headed rookies … |
| 12 | Yes , you you 've got to extend the route , well of course you 've got to put up , trolley poles every for about forty yards and then of course there was two lengths of trolley wire that had to go because as you know trolley buses used to have two arms , positive and negative supply and er , of course the bus had to come back er alongside the premiu the outward route , it come on , so you had four wires up there and the cost of copper wire was terrific so the motor buses were developed and we expenim experimented with the buses on , on extensions mainly but when the extensions were finished we then begradged because trolley wires were then beginning to wear out , rather than replace them they would convert a trolley route into a bus route , and erm because the erm , there was a lot of people hated to see the demise of the trolley buses because they were so clean and silent and the buses came , you got the deal sloke and lumbering of the old engines , that a lot of people hated to see the trolley buses go but cos that was the , the reason that they went . |
| 13 | The plan turned out to be North 's own favoured ‘ final act ’ for the contras : that if Congress did not approve any more money for them they would seize a piece of Nicaragua , establish a provisional government and there make a last stand , while the American Navy blockaded the rest of the country . |
| 14 | If there is trouble for them they will find a way of paying me back for revealing their names . |
| 15 | ‘ If they can stand dogs piddling on them they can stand a bit o' paint . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I wish I could go myself but if she complains and London hears about it they 'll put a stop on me doing anything . |
| 17 | I 'm a bit worried about that song , if Chas ‘ n ’ Dave get to hear it they might declare a fatwah . ’ |
| 18 | Framed in it they could see a letter . |
| 19 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 20 | Talk about giving the game away ! if these people did n't make it so obvious that they 'd pissed their lives away with drink and were n't prepared to do anything about it they 'd get a bit more sympathy . |
| 21 | In Street a man named he had two sons and he had , he had to quote , give a contract for it , but he always used to do what they 'd call a workhouse feed , and it was a four pound loaf , when my father died mother did n't get a widow 's pension , what , what she got was two shillings for each lad , there 's four of us , that 's eight shillings and a four pound loaf for each lad |