Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some sufferers tell hair-raising stories of how they drove long distances or even flew aeroplanes yet had no subsequent recall of having done so . |
| 2 | If we designed a questionnaire to ask people what they did in their free time , how would we know whether the answers we received gave us a true picture of how they spend that time ; or a picture of what they will say to a researcher when they are asked the question ? |
| 3 | It was a Saturday , their father was sleeping in , as were their three elder brothers , so for once they had some time to play by themselves , which they did in the yard . |
| 4 | In addition to simply buying shorter spots , a growing number of advertisers are experimenting with how they use short spots . |
| 5 | The growth of user-subcultures takes on enormous importance , and not only those associated with deviant youth groups : the British audience for American Country music , the Adult-Orientated Rock audience , successive rock 'n' roll revivals , swing band enthusiasts , and many others , would repay attention , for often they use mass-media products , perhaps radically shifting the original meanings . |
| 6 | Elle-women are beautiful and alluring from the front , though from behind they sport hollow backs and cows ' tails . |
| 7 | For example , health visitors may influence young mothers in how they view processed baby food . |
| 8 | Well why did n't they get a mile away from where they put that money they could 've , they could 've been planned it away , a mile away all |
| 9 | Both these versions of the expertise theory assure us that the special expertise of directors at once justifies conferring upon them the discretion to run the business and imposes a restraint on how they exercise that discretion . |
| 10 | Since then they spent another £100,000 on it . |
| 11 | We ask the general assembly to remit to the assembly council to give attention to the placing of health and healing within the overall work of the church and to report to next year 's general assembly on where they think this remit should most effectively be discharged . |
| 12 | To when they had young children , and a husband coming home from work . |
| 13 | I find it surprising that Opposition Front-Bench spokesmen wish to exclude spouses because of whom they happen to be married to when they have good records of public service . |
| 14 | Or if you 're comparing people with themselves as it were , that is looking for differences between how they answer one question and how they answer another question , then sort of , you know , kind of twenty or more people and you 've got a reasonable chance of showing up some , some P less than point O fives . |
| 15 | These clauses may be construed as ‘ no amendment or termination ’ clauses , for otherwise they have little substance ; all treaty provisions are binding unless terminated . |
| 16 | It is true that everyone needs to eat to stay alive , but biological requirements of this sort are too ‘ basic ’ to have much explanatory power ; we do not so much wish to understand why societies produce food as why they produce different kinds of food in different ways . |
| 17 | The petitions had little or no effect but at least they afforded some sense of involvement in what was going on . |
| 18 | The other six people all used this same excuse , but at least they had some hair to wash . |
| 19 | ‘ At least they do this right , ’ he murmured . |
| 20 | But at least they have sufficient grounding to do so , if they wish . |
| 21 | At least they won both Tests in New Zealand . |
| 22 | In fact , neither do accruals accounts necessarily , but at least they give some indication that capital has been affected . |
| 23 | Children can be encouraged to look back at how they found particular pieces of information and to ask themselves whether this was done in the most efficient way . |