Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | Professional television crews , in fact , bring their own power generators with them to enable them to light large areas . |
| 3 | We try to reduce the distance between ourselves and our boss by using first-person-plural pronouns , talking of what ‘ we ’ ( i.e. the boss and I ) will do in the future — ‘ We could always write to head office , and ask them to let us have more data . |
| 4 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 5 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
| 6 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 7 | Hitherto , when they asked us to obey those laws , we have known that we could change them , but hereafter a combination of people with different languages , understandings and cultures can set , and are by combination setting , upon us standards , rules and laws which may be suitable for Greece , central or northern Europe , France or Spain but which are not right for us . |
| 8 | For example , management may be buying a specific business out of a larger group of companies because they perceive it to have greater value as a single concern than its ( often ) discounted value as part of the vendor 's group . |
| 9 | They 've done before you realise it , and once they 're done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you 'd like to be and you 've lost your true self forever . ’ |
| 10 | Say you 're eight stone they make you put that waistcoat on , it 's nine stone . |
| 11 | As they grow they moult several times . |
| 12 | Well they want me to pay three days until she moved in . |
| 13 | And it 's just like , and they want you to make some comment on what you 've worked out , which is no problem really , is it ? |
| 14 | They want it kept low profile . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ If they want us to service local communities , we must be accountable to them . |
| 16 | Why does n't this place provide models if they want us to get these things right ? ’ |
| 17 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 18 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 19 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |
| 20 | They say they gave considerable thought before making the decision which they hope will help the trade ride the current recession . |
| 21 | They say they paid premium prices to a firm with exclusive rights to sell holidays to the Olympics , but in return were given appalling accomodation . |
| 22 | They say it takes three months or so to show up . |
| 23 | They say it likes chalky uplands … ’ |
| 24 | They say it shows little respect for the environment and have managed to pursuade council officials to consider putting preservation orders on the remaining trees . |
| 25 | Although , like Asterix , he attributed his phenomenal prowess partly to a magic potion , ‘ Superjuice ’ , concocted by his druidical sponsors , Body Ammo , he did n't really need it : ‘ They say I have three balls — I need an outlet for that extra energy . ’ |
| 26 | They say he fought twenty men , including her brothers and her father , to win her . ’ |
| 27 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 28 | They let her keep that part of herself , though much else changed . |
| 29 | ‘ I said I was unfairly handicapped , and they let me do extra Latin instead , ’ she said . |
| 30 | Th they let me have these scales . |