Example sentences of "[vb base] a [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | General Motors has two dealers in Britain — in Kingston and Manchester — and if you want a Syclone they will only lighten your wallet to the tune of £20,000 . |
| 2 | If the Japanese want a government they can be proud of , they must stop voting for permit-wielding , contract-fixing crooks . |
| 3 | You want a bet they wo n't ? |
| 4 | They want a baby they 're not concerned whether it 's going to have spina-bifida or have som , they are looking forward for a perfect baby . |
| 5 | A county council has told its entire staff that they can no longer smoke in their offices , and if they want a cigarette they must have it in their own time . |
| 6 | They say a letter they 've received exonerating the doctors involved is an insult to their daughter 's memory . |
| 7 | Some girls show a guy they 're terrific cooks — and my room-mate shows him she can make friends with his granny ! |
| 8 | Similarly , with potato crisps , have you ever known anyone not finish a packet they started ? |
| 9 | ‘ Hello Joe , where are you going ? ’ would stop me every 50 yards ( unless you wear a turban they are convinced you have come from the US ) . |
| 10 | Suppose it has never been decided whether people who accept a check they have reason to believe is forged can nevertheless collect on it . |
| 11 | When they open an account they 'll receive a free account opening pack and , if they are over seven , they 'll also become members of the Barclays Supersavers Club and they 'll receive regular copies of the club magazine . |
| 12 | GUIL : As soon as we make a move they 'll come pouring in from every side , shouting obscure instructions , confusing us with ridiculous remarks , messing us about from here to breakfast and getting our names wrong . |
| 13 | People who go to sea and dislike a thing they come out with it : I say she was a Jonah . |
| 14 | they get a bit they start to whip like that . |
| 15 | Get a divorce they , they 've never been happy at all since they 've been married have they ? |
| 16 | On the other hand each time they get a report they 're going to have ten pieces or their work on each report |
| 17 | If they use this formula and then get a report they do not like and on which they do not intend to rely at trial , then they are not committed to disclose it . |
| 18 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 19 | Most people get into management because they find an act they want to work with . |
| 20 | They claim a watermill they own will be flooded as a result . |
| 21 | Here the bees use a convention they all accept , just as we all accept that our maps are orientated with their tops to the north . |
| 22 | The , they did an easy-trieve which runs every , every time they do a run they , they run and before they do a run they do an easy-trieve er identify those cases and then there 's a marker you can put on poll M to redirect , it does n't change the address but it redirects the unit statement in-house . |
| 23 | The , they did an easy-trieve which runs every , every time they do a run they , they run and before they do a run they do an easy-trieve er identify those cases and then there 's a marker you can put on poll M to redirect , it does n't change the address but it redirects the unit statement in-house . |
| 24 | These parties claim that they are different from traditional Marxist — Leninist parties in three major respects : they are critical of certain aspects of the Soviet Union ; they are independent of Moscow so that if they were to win an election and form a government they would not be Soviet puppets ; and they claim that it is possible to implement communism and maintain traditional democratic institutions . |
| 25 | Team loyalties are thrown aside as they form a group they call l'autobus . |
| 26 | There 's nothing important in any of these locations , and if the adventurers fancy a bath they 'll have to fetch water for themselves from the well outside ( location 8 ) and heat it somehow . |
| 27 | And if you write a letter they do n't like , they bring it back and want to know why you 've written certain things . |
| 28 | Being the wrong class , in the wrong place , at the wrong time — in a foreshadowing of later night-beat practices — meant trouble : ‘ not any suspectid personne nor persons after nyne of the clocke shall not walke , but rest an kepe they theyr hoostes houssies , uppon payne of imprisonment ’ . |
| 29 | Being LCPs ( Local Collaborative Projects ) , the LXs have been U63 pump-primed by the DES and TA to act in the first instance as venture companies designed so that collaborating partners — they may be translators , interpreters , printers , camera crews , copy- writers , export consultants , marketing advisers , experts in cultural briefings etc , — collectively address a market they could not individually satisfy . |
| 30 | They take for granted that they themselves have a name they may be called by , as well as nicknames and endearments , alongside such designations as the kid , the boy , and so on . |