Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Come on , Rachel , you 've been here long enough to know how they love anything like this , especially when it involves one of us or one of the management team . ’ |
| 2 | They quite simply can not explain WHY they believe WHAT they believe , and so rather than admit their ignorance about their own faith , they just shut up . |
| 3 | Chodorow and Bem , for example , note their middle-class biases , but do not explore how they affect their concepts of family socialization . |
| 4 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee did not totally define dishonesty because " dishonesty is something which laymen can easily recognise when they see it " ( p.20 ) . |
| 5 | And — and many men in this situation would not care how they used me . ’ |
| 6 | This is the second talk in a series following the history , sort of Victorian fashion , but not just what people wore but hopefully explaining why they wore it , both the actual manufacturing , physical why they wore it and perhaps some of the psychological reasons behind the changing fashion . |
| 7 | And she did not do what hedgehogs usually do when they find themselves in a bit of trouble : curl up in a tight , prickly ball . |
| 8 | And if they are serious about securing Irish unity , they should also explain how they envisage it coming about while the sectarian political blocs remain unchallenged . |
| 9 | Norris ' ideas seem highly plausible and if this amazing and beautiful process is a correct understanding of part of the physical aspects of the dolphin 's 3-D sonar system , it also explains why they move their heads from side to side while they are emitting their characteristic echo-locating clicks — they are simply scanning their targets for angular , 3-D information . |
| 10 | Hey right guess how they put We Three Kings , it goes this is how Gary put it on the sheet , he goes We three kings , no is bitter perfume he will die and go in his tomb . |
| 11 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |
| 12 | Scientists now know how they do it — by using a special part of the voice box , which is why they can purr and miaow at the same time . |
| 13 | Apparently the Chinese are used to living with little heating indoors & we now understand why they wrap themselves up so well , with padded trousers and jackets , as well as caps or enormous fur hats , which they keep on even indoors during the classes . |
| 14 | People live in tents , and customs are so different from what they have been used to , that I really wonder how they reconcile themselves to their new mode of life . |
| 15 | ‘ That still does n't explain why they torched themselves , ’ Finn observed . |
| 16 | apparently she does n't know why they sacked her she said , they sacked apparently something to do with she 'd been asking too many questions or something and but she |
| 17 | I do n't know why they imagine it 's ‘ poofy ’ or we would n't find it attractive if they dressed up for us . |
| 18 | I do n't know why they left me there alive . ’ |
| 19 | And then the when they were built Sometimes some folk used to build them into what they called a hay soo It was a square kind of a thing but er and I do n't know why they put it into a hays hay soo as we say , but it seemed to er it seemed to be better to keep the h the wet out I suppose . |
| 20 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 21 | Jason Cundy gets his first chance to play against his former club since moving from Stamford Bridge last season — ‘ I still do n't know why they sold me — I thought I was there for my career , ‘ he says — but Meanwhile , in-form Chelsea will be without the suspended Mick Harford . |
| 22 | I do n't know why they like them models . |
| 23 | Personally , I do n't know why they kept her on . |
| 24 | Sixty six she was , so in we go , and it 's got open to the general public , so this man said to her something about I ca n't serve you I 've had a robbery , she said I do n't know why they advertise it on the window if he 's , if he 's not prepared to serve me and when I looked round there was all the taken over , they had a burglary . |
| 25 | I do n't know why they decided it that way . |
| 26 | I do n't know why they think I can help . |
| 27 | ‘ I do n't know why they did it and no , do n't even think it , I was n't raped . |
| 28 | I do n't know why they did it . |
| 29 | I do n't know why they do it , the screws , because half of them are bent as butchers ' hooks anyway . |
| 30 | I do n't actually , I do n't know why they do it because , I mean , half the people are listeners int it ? |