Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 2 | Neither of them seems to have read any work of Latin poetry , though at least Polybius must have become fluent in the language : even their direct use of Latin historians is doubtful . |
| 3 | They agreed to try to express any feelings of animosity at an early stage , rather than harbouring them until they exploded . |
| 4 | — It 's no' as easy as they say to find work these days , even down there . |
| 5 | They seemed to have brought another world into the shop . |
| 6 | They 'd gone to see another hill , which had been a Roman fort , covered in ferns now . |
| 7 | And then the timekeeper could mark down that they were present , they 'd gone to work that day you see ? |
| 8 | They reckoned to have walked 18 miles each to and from the board as they tried to beat the world record of 510,625 scored in 25s and bullseyes in 24 hours . |
| 9 | Insp Barry said : ‘ It would be easy to blame the parents , but they seem to have made reasonable efforts to bring him up properly . |
| 10 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 11 | In no manner could they have delayed to ambush poor Irvine . ’ |
| 12 | Because they spent their year off teaching children in a nursery school , or working in a home for mentally handicapped people , and they discovered a new area of interest to which they can relate , and they become motivated to read that subject . |
| 13 | US environmentalists and trade union activists have united to demand changes to the proposed free trade agreement between the US and Mexico , which they claim fails to provide sufficient safeguards against the risks of cross-border pollution and the import of contaminated foods . |
| 14 | The Girls slept in cubicles with others , which seemed strange at first but the fun they generated helped to overcome any homesickness . |
| 15 | CAPENHURST anglers did n't hook any whoppers , but they did manage to net enough tiddlers to ensure that the scales tipped in their favour in a challenge match against the Greyhound Angling Club from Chester . |
| 16 | They did agree to continue lower-level meetings between party representatives and Brian Mawhinney , a Minister of State at the Northern Ireland Office . |
| 17 | However , because their gain is high at high frequencies they do tend to exhibit high-frequency instability . |
| 18 | I suppose they get on reasonably well , but they do tend to rub each other up . |
| 19 | They do tend to have single nylon that 's a single strip that just folds round . |
| 20 | But we 've just got to wait and see , I mean , I know the sort of questions they 're going to ask , and they do deserve to hear some answers , I promise you that Jane . |
| 21 | This incapacitates them temporarily ; whilst imprisoned they can not victimize the public , although they do continue to victimize other prisoners , sometimes at a rate that exceeds community crime levels . |
| 22 | Girls choosing science are not particularly emotionally reticent or rigid in their thinking , although they do seem to have low self-esteem in terms of being socially and sexually attractive . |
| 23 | There are many different definitions of leadership , but they do seem to have certain features in common and a useful general definition is that given by Kossen : ‘ Leadership is the ability to influence the behaviour of others to go in a certain direction . ’ |
| 24 | It is accepted that individual positions are unequally rewarded , but the questions of access and opportunity now become central , and although Western capitalist societies do not claim to be equal , they do claim to offer equal opportunity to all in the competition for unequal positions . |
| 25 | … first of all … they do need to acquire manipulative skills in order to play a xylophone , french horn , synthesizer , whatever … so they learn these as and when they need them … through to recording techniques and so on and so on , but always when they need them … |
| 26 | The one where the fence comes they 've asked to fence this end , it 's that , those thin bits over |
| 27 | Oh , they 've started doing guided walks round the cemetery , and there 's going to be an open day at the sewage works . |
| 28 | But they 've failed to find any suspects . |
| 29 | They 've got to go this morning . |
| 30 | They 've got to make some money out of that have n't they ? |