Example sentences of "they [vb base] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But do n't sort of back away from them try and to , to work with them cos you 've got ta , you 've got ta get the two , the two together . |
| 2 | If they fear that in calling for quiet , and seeking to ensure it where the subject declines to desist , they might themselves be the objects of violence , the offence is made out . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the three dancers in Monotones are expressing their close relationship to each other and to the space in which they dance and above all to the flowing lines of the design and of the musical phrases . |
| 4 | They deny that on various occasions unknown between May 1989 and October 1991 they committed indecent offences and raped the sisters in houses in Glasgow . |
| 5 | They make that from sugar cane , which often grows wild here . |
| 6 | In the new Act children are then to have a say in what they want and in the plans made for them . |
| 7 | They expect that within days if not hours Luena , Cuito , Bie and Menongue will also fall . ’ |
| 8 | They report that in general , the psychiatric outcome was good and that the patients who were not happy about the result were those few in whom the operation had not led to the expected weight loss . |
| 9 | The news media can , by the way they report and by the significance they attach to personalities , events and the statements of individuals , colour the attitudes of the public and in turn influence the way in which the constitution is interpreted and the political system works . |
| 10 | They forget that under the last Labour Government the cab trade was decimated . |
| 11 | Where accurate values for the weights are available , or the weights can be reweighed , they suggest that at least one unit was in use , particularly in Kent , based on c . |
| 12 | These revisions do not ask us to view the prewar Japanese peasant as a prosperous and independent cultivator , but they suggest that at least part of the rural sector was benefiting from the course of development . |
| 13 | Although our results need to be replicated , they suggest that at least those patients with hypoxia and dyspnoea at rest get significant benefit from supplemental oxygen . |
| 14 | They suggest that in 1987 British electors relied much more heavily on television than the press for information , but only a little more for vote-guidance . |
| 15 | They suggest that in pigeon autoshaping the level of associability of a stimulus might determine , in part , the likelihood that it will be responded to . |
| 16 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |
| 17 | Weber 's observations on status groups are important since they suggest that in certain situations status rather than class provides the basis for the formation of social groups whose members perceive common interests and a group identity . |
| 18 | They suggest that in previous eras BBC Scotland got what was in essence a block grant from London in respect of costs of making programmes for Scotland . |
| 19 | They need to be able to recognise on sight a large proportion of the words they encounter and to be able to predict meaning on the basis of phonic , idiomatic and grammatical regularities and of what makes sense in context ; children should be encouraged to make informed guesses . |
| 20 | They provide that at least half the proceeds of surplus asset sales must go to reduce consumer bills and would affect the so-called ‘ K-factor ’ on which price rises are calculated . |
| 21 | Interesting and significant not just in what they say but in where they are saying it . |
| 22 | They say that at the moment of death the whole of one 's past life flashes before one 's eyes . |
| 23 | They say that at a certain point it will stop expanding and start contracting again , back into the original primal seed . |
| 24 | They say that on a clear day you can see the Isle of Harris . |
| 25 | it 's not pronounced in mine , but , some er they say that with where it 's gone away , you know , there 's all sorts of things that can prove it I mean the obvious thing is we came from somewhere did n't we ? , we did n't just drop here with a flash of light and er they 've studied plants and other animals and they evolved . |
| 26 | They say that without the introduction of a full-scale growth incentive public confidence will remain at rock bottom with no increase in spending . |
| 27 | They say that until his death he cared for their mother , who 's disabled with polio . |
| 28 | They say that until now paclitaxel for human drug use has been from felled trees , but in 1993 sources other than Pacific yew bark will be used on a commercial scale , and by 1995 they hope actual trees will no longer be needed to produce the drug . |
| 29 | They say that in such a case you search for your mother for the rest of your life . |
| 30 | So effectively Robert Harris and Noel Timms ( ‘ Backs against the wall ’ , 15 April ) turn Parkinson 's Law on its head when they say that in residential care ‘ time expands in accordance with the potentially limitless tasks which exist ’ . |