Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
2 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
3 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
4 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
5 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
6 | so that modifications could be introduced in the physical , social or educational environments of these children which would help them achieve at the same level of conceptual development as is found in children from western societies . |
7 | It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time . |
8 | And , the discomfort is made even more acute when two or three of them arrive by the same post . |
9 | Six of them originated from the same bar on Corfu — 500 miles from the island of Kos where Ben first vanished . |
10 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
11 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
12 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
13 | They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair . |
14 | Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 . |
15 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
16 | They change in the same society over time ; for example , when one society is at war with another , some people are actively encouraged to wound and kill other people from the enemy group . |
17 | And they make to the same place to their feed . |
18 | ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time . |
19 | Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ? |
20 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
21 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
22 | In other words , they appear at the same time at widely separated localities . |
23 | They sleep in the same room with each other , and look beautiful when I am putting them to bed , jumping and hopping about quite naked , rejoicing in the freedom of no clothes . |
24 | In the first nine regions , including the social variables would have resulted in a change of target allocations which opposed the effect of reducing the weighting of standardised mortality ratio — that is , they act in the same direction as standardised mortality ratio . |
25 | They react in the same way whether the electric field is due to static charges or to a time-varying magnetic field ; under the force qE they rearrange themselves so as to cancel the electric field inside the conducting material as shown in Fig. 4.1(a) . |
26 | Erm some additional sidings , mills over here , some additional sidings were put in , in the early part of this century , and they came off the this track erm just this side of on the left hand side of the level crossing , erm and went er up to a dead end er just along in the right hand side , er over now towards where factory is . |
27 | They came from the same country . |
28 | These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop . |
29 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
30 | I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse . |