Example sentences of "[adj] they [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 2 | In 401 they entered the western part of the Empire , under the leadership of Alaric I. Once again they oscillated between friendship with the Romans and outright hostility , depending on the possibility of imperial recognition and acceptance . |
| 3 | They set up a system of hotel coupons ( 1867 ) , through rail tickets , international ship and rail timetables , and guidebooks , and between 1873 and 1874 they introduced the Circular Note , forerunner of the travellers cheque . |
| 4 | One thing is absolutely certain and that is nearly all the US companies that set out down the T.Q.M. route 10 years ago are still convinced they took the right decision . |
| 5 | But incredulous , or not , the events happened ( millions of television viewers worldwide watched the Chilean concert ) and as such they typify the massive changes that Amnesty has undergone in its 30-year history . |
| 6 | Erm and the further west in Scotland and the younger they get the more problem I have with their accents . |
| 7 | And on a more le local level you 're quite right the better trained people there are , the more they , the happier they feel the more work they have , the more job satisfaction they have . |
| 8 | The recovery was slow and by 1937 the rate was still at 9%. 3 By 1941 , then , people looked back across two decades of mass unemployment to the end of the previous war , and by and large they assumed the same thing would happen again . |
| 9 | All Distribution Services staff had taken the Quality in action workshop training by the end of their drive to TQM — and to make sure they speak the same language of improvement — we 're now presenting the QiA workshop to them , too . |
| 10 | I kept them clean and well-dressed , made sure they ate the right things , had regular dental checks and all that , but some of my methods were unorthodox for the time . |
| 11 | I am sure they had the pious hope that this foundation would actually serve to increase the nation 's general fitness by pumping money into sport , but if the money is to go on improving facilities at cricket clubs and down the country , then a large number of cricketers who rely on lousy playing conditions for their place in the side will be forced into retirement . |
| 12 | Jaguar have shown that the very top end of the car market more than buoyant they hope the extra prestige the XJ220 will bring will ensure that following troubled times 1992 will be the year of the cat . |
| 13 | In 1902 they climbed the marvellous Bosigran Ridge . |
| 14 | Alright , and so there 's an incentive for these small producers , alright , to maximize their yields , alright , because the more they produce the higher income they , they 'll have . |
| 15 | I du n no , the older they get the more trouble they seem ter be . |
| 16 | Once constructed , sanctuaries and temples of whatever cult continued to receive votive offerings , and the richer and more prestigious they became the more emulation they aroused and the greater the inflow of precious substances . |
| 17 | Straight after that they played the main Mill team , and again turned out comfortable winners with a 3 . |
| 18 | I remember when I left Central School in 1966 they said the average life for a woman in the theatre was three years and seven for a man before giving it up . |
| 19 | First they try the very top of the Empire State Building , then the deck of an eighteenth-century clipper — all to no avail . |
| 20 | First they caught the small fish : in July , several Thakins — Than Tun , Soe , and Nu . |
| 21 | On May 21 the EPRDF took Adis Alem , 55 km west of the capital , while on May 23 they took the key town of Debre Birhan ( about 70 km north-east of the capital ) . |
| 22 | 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration . |
| 23 | Rourke bared his teeth , and in the tense moments that followed as they squared up to each other they heard the unmistakable sound of a cough , and turned to see Adam make an appearance in the doorway . |
| 24 | In the 1960s they won the Junior Ice Dance Championships at Streatham . |
| 25 | In 1937 they persuaded the Parliamentary Party to abstain , rather than vote against , the arms estimates , and during 1938 the Labour Front bench started to attack the Government for not rearming faster . |
| 26 | So it 's not surprising they draw the racist conclusions — the blacks are getting jobs , housing etc. at their expense ; and so they become fodder for the National Front . |
| 27 | They climbed over stones and through narrow openings between trees , and at last they reached the very top of the hill . |