Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Khumalo 's allegations were strengthened by similar claims by two gang members who said that the security forces had recruited , trained and armed them to carry out attacks on ANC supporters . |
| 2 | This came about because entrepreneurs realised that they could maintain higher profits by not indulging in fierce competition which forced them to pass on benefits to consumers . |
| 3 | Both carry notebooks with them to jot down ideas for sketches . |
| 4 | When they saw that the war could not be won , even as early as 1941 , some of them opened up lines of communication with us and the British . ’ |
| 5 | He watched them go off hand in hand , and then he wandered away across the quarry , heading for the old manager 's office . |
| 6 | BRYAN BEESON and Jason Nicolle , two members of the England team whose make-up has caused so much controversy , created sensations yesterday when each of them brought down members of Pakistan 's defending world title team at the World Open Championships here . |
| 7 | Of course they did not produce an abstract treatise on Freedom , in which they laid out principles of action in deductive orderliness . |
| 8 | He contends , in effect , that ethical statements do indeed do something more or different than merely state facts , even facts about the effects of actions on the general happiness , for they pick out actions for approval or disapproval . |
| 9 | And because people knew he was going to do so , they came back night after night to see how things were changed . |
| 10 | They open up levels of reality not easily accessible to the more literal approach and relate to elements within the depth of man 's soul . |
| 11 | The hotel staff felt sorry for the Garda and asked them round to the back door , where they handed out tots of whiskey . |
| 12 | They poured out tales of two-timing and desertion to DJ Steve Penk at Piccadilly Key 103 station in Manchester . |
| 13 | For the next ten days they set up camp at Etaples , spending their mornings being marched over dunes , their afternoons being instructed in gas warfare and their evenings being told by Captain Trentham the different ways they could die . |
| 14 | They set up diversions at Quy and Six Mile Bottom , East Cambridgeshire council helped clear grain and Suffolk police aided traffic filtering on the westbound side . |
| 15 | They set up house in No. 93 , which was now to let . |
| 16 | Most common in the north of England , they pass along streets at night , making horrid shrieks and scaring folk from their slumbers . |
| 17 | They worked up petitions to parliament while engaging in some correspondence with each other . |
| 18 | Last year they tracked down Weatherall in Rimini and consequently signed to Boy 's Own . |
| 19 | Yeah when they go out hospital for Charlotte the babies the night . |
| 20 | they took out loads of things . |
| 21 | They took out copyright on lyrics that had not even been written yet . |
| 22 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 23 | Back in Chania , the Calypso bar is filling with elderly Cretan men who click a lot : worry-beads clatter through their fiddling fingers , and they smack down counters on backgammon boards with ferocious violence . |
| 24 | They tore down pictures of President Ceausescu , cut the Socialist emblem from the national flag , and set on fire any red flags they came across . |
| 25 | They shelled out £2.5bn on food , fags and booze last year — 32% more than they did the year before . |
| 26 | If they gave up territories in exchange for the surrender of Aquitaine , these would have to be held feudally in dependence of the crown of France . |
| 27 | This will include how pupils will use their keyword searches in finding information from the microcomputer and then how they use these keywords when they follow up references to books and other materials . |
| 28 | I got some here come in this morning she says , they ran out beginning of September last year . |
| 29 | The most immediate is that they take up oxygen from water to support their respiration and produce carbon dioxide . |
| 30 | This Saturday they take on Cookstown at Tillysburn in a league match , kick-off 2.30pm . |