Example sentences of "they [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some accountants are reluctant to take unpaid leave because they fear they will not have a job to come back to if , as seems to many likely , there is another wave of redundancies . |
| 2 | Some widows become so restless and panic-stricken in the early months of bereavement that they fear they may be going mad , and you may find yourself having to give your parent strong reassurance on this point , to help her to deal with this common anxiety . |
| 3 | They fear they could lay themselves open to prosecution for murder or manslaughter — or in some cases a civil action for damages — if they disconnect a feeding tube without court permission . |
| 4 | The POA says previous appeals for extra staff have fallen on deaf ears ; if the same happens this time , they fear they 'll soon have a riot on their hands . |
| 5 | They announced they were not even prepared to come in and talk . |
| 6 | In a typically devious climb-down they announced they would bombard the island in future on only the odd dates of the month , as though the rain of shells was a form of parking restriction . |
| 7 | This afternoon they announced they intend to adjourn tomorrow night 's AGM . |
| 8 | On set she met and fell in love with her screen husband , Branagh , and they announced they were to marry in 1989 . |
| 9 | If they failed they get told and they do n't get a certificate do they ? |
| 10 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 11 | They revealed they 're looking for two suspects . |
| 12 | The House Speaker , Tom Foley , and the Senate majority leader , George Mitchell , have urged him to reconsider his stance — even though they concede they do not have the votes to override a veto . |
| 13 | Well me parents they got they was alright they , you know what I mean , they were n't wealthy but they they they were they 'd always got enough to live on . |
| 14 | Yeah , well they got they were , they were sharp both ends , they were n't , ai n't got no stern , them paddle they were paddle boats , so there you got one they had a rudder each end so they had to keep one rudder shut and the other one used to steer . |
| 15 | If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job . |
| 16 | Erm that was on the same vein and they got they got a ce er a certain amount of national er erm national er publicity . |
| 17 | To Llaneilian to got to get it they got they got together and they got married and they had ten children . |
| 18 | If they 'd have known that when they got they got out , |
| 19 | Anyway they got they got in the end and they |
| 20 | Yeah , they got they 'd got half hour 's drive from Minehead and that their car broke down , they had to go up , they had to call the , was it the A are they ? |
| 21 | See they got they 're head down all the time . |
| 22 | I once met an aged man who had waged a single-handed crusade to get the Fellowship to change its official line that Dr Manette 's house ( A Tale of Two Cities ) is based on the old Carlisle House , Soho Square , in favour of No 1 Greek St. He said he felt prouder than if he had won the Nobel prize on the day they admitted they were in error . |
| 23 | When consulted on the alterations , the ladies considered that it was wiser to spend on greens and approaches but ‘ if on the clubhouse then for the caretaker ’ — i.e. a larger kitchen and scullery ’ , although they admitted they would like more basins and another w.c . |
| 24 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 25 | They admitted they were told on Saturday that Timothy had not returned from a 250-mile trip from Tilbury in Essex — but they only found the lorry on Monday morning . |
| 26 | They admitted they understood little about politics , and often they could only see , with a certain amount of reluctance , racial interpretations . |
| 27 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 28 | It was only after he had gone that they realized they had never asked his name or where he lived . |
| 29 | ‘ The Tobolsk police , when they realized they had got an Englishman , rang Moscow . |
| 30 | They realized they would be severely punished when the Germans learned that they had failed to do their duty . |