Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've had them make up a bed for you . |
| 2 | But I could have them send up a tray if you 'd rather stay in bed . ’ |
| 3 | SCOTLAND set out to salvage their under-21 season when they round off a disappointing campaign against the Welsh at Myreside , Edinburgh , today ( 3pm ) . |
| 4 | As personal traits and gifts , as the fruits of experience or as the outcome of maturity they remain essentially a private matter , not amenable to management training but open to approaches which might be based on good practice in counselling or on well-handled programmes about the development of interpersonal skills . |
| 5 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 6 | They remain merely an intriguing possibility , showing more about the human addiction to order than allowing the Earth to show her own organic nature . |
| 7 | Friday nights are hot at Apples and Snakes — every week they bring on a new lineup of outstanding poets and performers . |
| 8 | What distinguishes the series of Criminal Justice Acts is the comprehensiveness with which they bring together a range of generally disparate proposals , originating from different sources , bearing on the content of the criminal law , the powers and procedure of the courts , and the treatment ( in the widest sense ) of offenders . |
| 9 | They bring together a range of information not otherwise collected . |
| 10 | Next year I hope they bring in a seeding system as many of the top winning dogs clashed very early on . |
| 11 | They bring in a similar amount of cash as small , or public , lotteries . |
| 12 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 13 | when you get tho when you get the half the er when you get sort of well like the scooterist dos and th the DJs bring it up , I mean they bring in a hard core |
| 14 | If you know certain children are going to have difficulty in separating from parents , then it helps if they bring along a favourite toy . |
| 15 | they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past . |
| 16 | ‘ These little publishers always say that when they bring out a book everyone else rejected as uncommercial . |
| 17 | What you gon na d right if they bring out a twelve hundred plus , so what . |
| 18 | They drag out a strange kind of illusory real , and really illusory existence … |
| 19 | They cite instead a report by representatives of Ramsar , the international wetlands convention , which warns that extensive mining would be sure to cause irreparable damage to the area . |
| 20 | Every hill-walker dreams of seeing a wildlife drama unfold in front of them as they peer over a crag , hoping that the next rise will reveal an osprey fighting off a wildcat which it returned to find attacking the nest , forcing the great bird to drop its intended dinner , a pine marten , which runs for its life , stopping only to catch and eat a grounded , flapping , pipistrelle bat . |
| 21 | Or if liver and limb bud cells are mixed they too sort out into large clumps ; but they make neither a proper liver nor limbs . |
| 22 | Today they make up a sad string of tarnished beads , from Bombay , Calcutta and Rangoon to Saigon ( now Ho Chi Minh City ) , Hanoi and Canton . |
| 23 | With the wringer and mop they make up a mopping system . |
| 24 | They make up a physically-associated system , but the real separation between them is over 300000 million kilometres . |
| 25 | They make up a wide pair , with beautiful contrasting colours ; Lambda is white and Mu very red , with an M-type spectrum . |
| 26 | In certain areas of higher education — physics and engineering , for example — they make up a tiny proportion of students . |
| 27 | Social class differences are equally stark : in spite of the fact that manual workers are the majority of the working population , they make up a small proportion of those covered by retirement pensions . |
| 28 | They make up a group of institutions which has been described as the ‘ third force ’ in higher education , alongside the universities and polytechnics , and are known variously as colleges of higher education , institutes of higher education , colleges of education or just plain colleges . |
| 29 | Therefore a physical interpretation of vector components is that they make up a tangent . |
| 30 | And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters . |