Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 2 | Now , they know who they are , and I would like them to come forward and admit their guilt . " |
| 3 | ‘ We would ask them to come forward and help us solve this terrible killing . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , this latter aspect of femininity is emphasized by some recent writers on masculinity who protest that men do not have such a wonderful deal in the world , since the social pressures on them to contain rather than express their emotions are oppressive and restrictive , stunting their full emotional development . |
| 5 | Mrs Patient of Bracknell , Berks , said : ‘ I could n't believe that it took four of them to stand there and say they could n't do the work until after the New Year . |
| 6 | The general aim is to pick something that wo n't take long , get them fed quickly and get them out without their inflicting any major damage . |
| 7 | On the whole they lived peaceably and had lots of fellowship together . |
| 8 | Every Saturday they sit upstairs and do nothing , do n't even . |
| 9 | Formative evaluation ( to use the current jargon ) , is so obviously more important than summative , since you need to modify things as they develop rather than wring your hands over them when they have failed . |
| 10 | look at and browse and take the information that they want rather than putting what sounds to me a lot of work on some |
| 11 | We 'll do so-and-so , and they walk away and leave it , and the adapters they say , they see the adapters as stick in the muds , ooh , they all do the same old thing , ooh , it 's boring and that sort of thing you see . |
| 12 | They said that in a political situation , if you had one side you could call it the thesis , say capitalism was the thesis and communism was the other side and that was the antithesis and that these two would one another and it was only when they came together and got their good points both of them adopted , that one was really going to get a satisfactory solution . |
| 13 | There was nothing for it but for the two young men themselves to go to Lucy 's aid so , clearing their minds of any impure notions , they darted forward and seized her humming body , one by the shoulders , the other by the knees . |
| 14 | Plasmids are often symbionts rather than parasites : that is , they benefit rather than injure their hosts , for example by carrying with them properties such as drug resistance which may be of value to the host cell . |
| 15 | They sighed collectively and rolled their eyes . |
| 16 | They know better than to believe anything they hear , unless I 'm the person who tells them . ’ |
| 17 | If they go away and say I 'll be back Buzz I 'll be back . |
| 18 | they go home and tell their neighbours . |
| 19 | Denis made threatening noises , but they knew better than to take him seriously . |
| 20 | They knew better than to insult their hosts by open mention of this superiority ; such bad manners would disgrace the clan . |
| 21 | ‘ I went away and left him ’ , now even if they went , went away and left and , because they had to bring the children home , or if they went away and left him because they knew it was the best thing for everyone concerned , because the foreign office wants as many people , we all need as many people to get out of the area as possible ; their guilt will be huge . |
| 22 | So naturally they went ahead and did it anyway , without Waite 's knowledge . |
| 23 | But you could say , the measure would be , have they gone away and done it ? |
| 24 | They did so and informed their clients of what they had discovered ; they then returned the papers . |
| 25 | Oh yes , there were no er there was no er no nonsense , I mean you would n't dare answer the teacher back like they did now and call them by their christian names . |
| 26 | They cleared everwhere and took everything . |
| 27 | When he climbed in beside the Fish they leaned forward and kissed him enthusiastically . |
| 28 | ‘ Let's black him , ’ Fergal suddenly announced , when they had all but drunk their way through the bottle . |
| 29 | Then they ran outside and carried everything into the kitchen — their chickens , their fishing things . |
| 30 | Well they used to have a little rowing boat and come after it , he used to get one of the lads while they come ashore and got his dinner . |