Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even friends acknowledge that she approaches conversations as an intellectual exchange rather than as an opportunity to empathize ; her invitations to colleagues to define their terms and to explain ‘ precisely ’ what they mean often disconcert the unprepared . |
| 2 | Then , having settled their men and their stewards and their womenfolk , if they had any , they moved eastwards to do the same for themselves and for others along the course of the Forth , and to drift , with an inquisitive eye , through the hills and croplands that lay southwards in Northumbrian hands . |
| 3 | They 'd even discovered the unlikeliest things in common — a liking for potted shrimps and piano concertos , an aversion to veal and Wagner . |
| 4 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 5 | They assembled quickly to hear the brief set of orders that explained their respective tasks in the battle to come . |
| 6 | However , they know enough to avoid the angry man , now getting angrier by the minute . |
| 7 | They have not said who they believe actually fired the single fatal bullet at Uwe-Wilhelm Rakebrand ( 33 ) , of Adendorf , Germany . |
| 8 | For that reason it is our intention to present , for all of our authors , explicit evidence that they did indeed meet the formal diagnostic criteria for psychotic illness , as used by psychiatrists . |
| 9 | Modest measures to help the long-term unemployed back to work are laudable in all but their modesty ; they do little to make the employed feel more secure . |
| 10 | Not only have they continued vigilantly to oppose the many external threats to the countryside , but they have developed an awareness that the rural environment is also being subverted from within — by farmers and landowners , and the demands of modern agricultural practice . |
| 11 | They 've just reached the half way stage of the project but it 's taken them five years to get this far . |
| 12 | they 've just rehashed the old plan , and just drawn a red line round the bit they want us to look at , erm , this bit know it 's a computer . |
| 13 | They 've just won the Southern Women 's Championships for the second time . |
| 14 | Chuckball is a mixture of basketball and handball … invented in Switzerland its now taking a hold in this country … its a non contact sport but is played at a hundred miles an hour … and top dogs are Cheltenham 's Junior Team … they 've just won the European Championship … a big deal … |
| 15 | Between stops we can try and find out why their debut LP , ‘ Eva Luna ’ , is such a welcome anachronism that gives a shock to the nerve-centres of the techno ‘ n ’ grunge consensus , why rhythm is omnipotent once again and why they 've finally broken the apathetic silence by taking us all to task with some bold statements on matters of importance , instead of indistinct paeans to various objects of desire . |
| 16 | The same papers are read by those kids and by the coppers who nick them , and basically they 've both swallowed the same lies . |
| 17 | They 've already begun the arduous task of carrying their plants half a mile across town to their new home . |
| 18 | But they 've already had the best part of a week in which to forget . ’ |
| 19 | I think they 've probably lost the backward compatibility by now . |
| 20 | They 've only got the little lights in that shop . |
| 21 | Scum fans claim they 've now got the best pitch in the Premiership . |
| 22 | I adore what other players get from Marshall amps but for some reason they 've never done the same for me , so this one 's going to have to prove itself , the same as the rest . |
| 23 | In recent years they 've all got the real ale kick and always have too many pumps , which means that the throughput is slow and four out of five beers go off before they 're half sold . |
| 24 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 25 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 26 | The Iranian authorities countered that they had repeatedly asked the Turkish government to present evidence for such claims . |
| 27 | There it was held that those persons who had access to inside information were required to observe the ‘ abstain or disclose ’ principle ie they had either to disclose the inside information which they held or abstain from trading . |
| 28 | Although they had formerly represented the true repository of Judaism , and although they provided Christianity with the very focus of its worship , they had now been disowned by Jews and Christians alike . |
| 29 | Ahmed Deedat told thousands of Muslims who filled the Albert Hall in central London that if they had only shown the non-Muslim majority that Mr Rushdie had grievously insulted the Queen , Margaret Thatcher and all white women in The Satanic Verses , then the author would have been condemned by all of society and the book banned . |
| 30 | One can only feel for the Jesuits : when their Order was dissolved in 1777 , they had only enjoyed the finished church for two years . |