Example sentences of "they [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She closed her eyes for a second , and then opened them to see a glimpse of concern on Guy Sterne 's dark face . |
| 2 | To make a start , drill a number of holes close together then join them using a chisel which can be tapped with a mallet . |
| 3 | You switch between them using a memory — resident utility . |
| 4 | Even having formatted column C to show dates you have to enter them using a date function . |
| 5 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 6 | with the thought of them using a saucepan . |
| 7 | This hatred of Lloyd George on the part of both Baldwin and MacDonald made it very difficult for the Conservative or Labour Parties to contemplate either coalition with the Liberals , or even a tacit understanding with them to sustain a minority government ; and the politics of the 1920s can not therefore be understood without appreciating the widespread antagonism both to coalition and to Lloyd George personally . |
| 8 | Two thirds of them scratch a living from the soil . |
| 9 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 10 | ‘ I believe I have two more years of top-class rugby in me and I want them to include a return to the England team . ’ |
| 11 | One or other of them drafted a statement which was a flat denial that he had misbehaved either sexually or politically . |
| 12 | Exchange visits between company and school have kept the project going and Courtaulds is now looking at the possibility of helping them design a fibre spinning rig . |
| 13 | Shortly after the formation of Apple Films ( a subsidiary of the Beatles ' Apple Corps Ltd ) , Ringo and his associate Hilary Gerard had approached us to help them make a film about Arthurian legends and " Magical Britain " . |
| 14 | But do n't let them make a pig of you . |
| 15 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 16 | One of them became a cardinal , and , in 1130 , pope — or , as he came to be reckoned , an anti-pope . |
| 17 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 18 | But erm , yes , so I still do n't know what 's happening with that yet , and I 'm waiting also for them to confirm a date for this first sort of Do Business in France seminar , that we 're going to help them with , which was originally going to be February , and is now going to be March . |
| 19 | ‘ It would appear there is every chance of them maintaining a relationship in the future . ’ |
| 20 | Please contact them to arrange a meeting if you so require . |
| 21 | Short , high-intensity bursts of neutrons will be produced 50 times a second by accelerating protons by potentials of up to 800 million volts , and steering them to hit a target of heavy material — uranium . |
| 22 | Certainly it must help them locate a mate and induce a feeling of social togetherness . |
| 23 | GLC funding made it possible for them to conduct a research project into the lives of young lesbians and gays . |
| 24 | It was perhaps ironic too , that six more sections were cut at Great Casterton , and none of them produced a scrap of pottery from the rampart later than the early second century . |
| 25 | The property has been stolen from Gloucestershire , Herefordshire , Worcestershire , perhaps Oxfordshire and the police want to trace the owners to help them build a pattern linking the burglaries . |
| 26 | Knowing that such disturbances can occur , why should consumers agree to a form of contract which , in such circumstances , forces them to acquire a quantity of goods at the agreed price which they consider sub-optimal ? |
| 27 | About 5,800 of the West Midlands force 's 7,000 drivers have undergone tough advanced driving courses allowing them to drive a car with a siren . |
| 28 | New theories about education challenged women 's intellectual credentials since most of them lacked a knowledge of the classics . |
| 29 | and if lots of people wanted to study law , they 'd all bring them to like a lawyer , say |
| 30 | One of them made a stand for repeal of the Corn Laws , which must have taken some guts in this neck of the woods . ’ |