Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we 're getting them to go for a hundred , which sounds a lot , but the ground 's quite variable so , you know , some of it is really good planting land and some of it is n't , so , you know , it 'll be up to the teams to go for as many as they can . |
| 2 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 3 | Vases in the Marine Style , including rhytons , bridge-spouted jugs and three-handled amphoras , are decorated with triton shells , argonauts , octopuses , starfish , rocks and seaweed — all of them treated in a free and fluid way . |
| 4 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 5 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 6 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 7 | No disrespect to my conveyancing brethren but I would n't let them loose on a guilty plea of going the wrong way round a keep left sign . |
| 8 | Fleischmann then showed a proposal that he and Pons had submitted to the Department of Energy ( DOE ) in Washington requesting financial support for them to carry through a definitive series of experiments over a period of three years . |
| 9 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 10 | Growth is a desperate necessity for China and India , which between them account for a third of the global population , and other developing nations . |
| 11 | And in the fourth year I tend to do them an evaluation sheet , where I write down lots of questions about the project they have just done , and maybe get them to sit for a double lesson and write about the things they experienced and found out … |
| 12 | The centre , which cost nearly £1.5 million to build , offers people with learning difficulties the chance to learn skills which can help them prepare for an independent life in the community . |
| 13 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 14 | One longs to give a copy each to ten assorted bus company managers ( leavened with the occasional politician and academic ) and make them wait on a cold dark wet night in a vandalised bus shelter for an unpredictable R registered banger . |
| 15 | Our main purpose in life is to make people aware of the problem , to make them think of their own vulnerability and responsibility and make them act in a safe and sensible way . |
| 16 | For a few hours each day the HCI Captain keeps them occupied like a regular Mary Poppins with games excursions and rehearsals for junior showtime . |
| 17 | I asked them to work for a loose confederation of equal republics , largely self-governing , but with certain specified powers on a federal basis . |
| 18 | It 's also good for them to come to a new school and know at least one face there . |
| 19 | The Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu , K. O. P. M. Karunanidhi , was given the responsibility of talking to the various Tamil groups to persuade them to come to a peaceful settlement after the withdrawal of the IPKF . |
| 20 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 21 | Had Aldous Huxley introduced a sub-plot into Brave New World , where the remains of a dead man were cannibalised to save the lives of 50 strangers , only for them to succumb to a lethal virus hidden in his tissues , his readers would have been impressed by the fertility of his futuristic imagination . |
| 22 | This would mean considerable cost savings for the smaller teams and help them survive during a difficult economic period . |
| 23 | Cooking procedures : most of the meals do not need cooking , just add hot water and leave them to stand for a few minutes . |
| 24 | There are a few places in the States , but there 's no federal policy to get them organised on a big-money basis and all the little local pressure groups keep them harassed and staying small . |
| 25 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 26 | ( 1981 ) also shows how positive measures to meet the needs of visually handicapped pupils can help them to flourish in a happy community atmosphere . |
| 27 | He lifted his shoulders and let them fall in a dismissive shrug . |
| 28 | Some mothers held their children tightly , letting them watch from a safe distance but not too close . |
| 29 | The agreement , by which Merck will pay the Institute $1 million , is intended to provide an incentive for the conservation of Costa Rica 's remaining forest lands , by allowing them to serve as a sustainable productive resource of materials other than timber . |
| 30 | Only on a bigger scale , they had them made on a bigger scale you see . |