Example sentences of "they [verb] such " in BNC.
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| 1 | It I think forty five they started negotiating forty five forty to forty seven and er when we tried to alter the national agreement or change it in our minds for the better you always had the solid block of these wee fellows up and down the country sticking by the national agreement because they got such a good deal out of it it brought their standards right up to the the best that was going . |
| 2 | Photographs of the squad taken in the early 1970s still evoke surprise in police circles , simply because they display such strong imagery of an unacceptable style , and at the time were made much of in the media , who saw the newsworthy potential of policemen in a disorderly form . |
| 3 | ‘ How did they make such a mistake … er , choice ? ’ said the Government 's National Heritage tourism spokesman Duncan Stroud . |
| 4 | Why do they make such a fuss about it ? ’ |
| 5 | To most , if not all , British trade union leaders it seemed to be suicide to follow Larkin 's " fiery cross " into a confrontation with the state in circumstances in which it was clear that their members would not follow them ; why should they make such a sacrifice for Larkin when they had been unwilling to do so only a year earlier for the London dockers ? |
| 6 | In 1840 they made such diverse products as doeskins , superfines , scarlet hunters and billiard cloth . |
| 7 | It was amazing , therefore , that they made such an impression … |
| 8 | In some cases the State conducting the investigation ( by virtue of being the State of occurrence ) sought only to exonerate the services ( chiefly air traffic control and navigational services ) from any involvement in the cause of the accident while at the same time being content to attribute the cause of the accident to some shortcoming on the part of the pilots without seeking to find out why they made such mistakes . |
| 9 | I stopped calling Leon 's name and felt unreasonably furtive , wished the dogs were n't with me , they made such a noise . |
| 10 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 11 | Well they made such a mess of this ring ! |
| 12 | And he was going round and they made such a fuss of him cos he was Philomena 's husband |
| 13 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 14 | Now you could say that was perhaps maintenance , but it 's all been cleaned , it 's been repointed , there are new lanterns , they 've done all the paintwork and they made such a beautiful job of it , it 's really almost for the craftsmanship and the care that we gave them a certificate for that as well . |
| 15 | The three leading parties have all said they favour such a move . |
| 16 | They applied such chartists ' techniques after a simplified fashion , and were surprised , not sorry " , when they tested them out on clients and got them wrong . |
| 17 | Other provisions enable police officers to enter private property forcibly without a search warrant if they deem such action necessary to prevent a breach of the peace , reach someone who has committed an arrestable offence or search for evidence of an offence by someone they have already arrested . |
| 18 | Ireland 's timing was perfect in that they produced such a stunning performance in front of three of the four Lions selectors , Ken Reid , Derek Morgan and Bob Munro . |
| 19 | Why do they build such small sculleries which make washday a dread . |
| 20 | Never have the game 's laws undergone so radical an overhaul as they did last year — and never have they provoked such an outcry . |
| 21 | They stress such things as population density , circumscription in a small area , conquest by outsiders of the diffusion of the idea of divine kingship . |
| 22 | It 's all these visitors ; they make such a mess . |
| 23 | I suspect it 's because they make such great watches that the women ca n't be fooled into thinking that 40 seconds is an hour and a half . |
| 24 | They make such excellent roomy holes that often other animals , lacking the tools for carpentry but otherwise of a powerful disposition , such as owls and squirrels , will drive away the woodpeckers and claim the holes for themselves . |
| 25 | They make such a lot of work . ’ |
| 26 | Ivan Foster , in an attempt to show that Knox and Calvin were democrats , pointed out that they sought such popular mandates as were available in their societies . |
| 27 | Flu viruses are notorious for the ease in which they undergo such antigenic shifts , as they are called , and so giving rise to epidemics . |
| 28 | They regarded such activity as a schoolboy game of cloaks and daggers . |
| 29 | Their basic objection was that they found such concepts unhelpful and non-explanatory . |
| 30 | There was no special room for the purpose except the receiving-room for all persons on first admission , and they found such lunatics dangerous and objectionable . |