Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old acquaintances would cut them dead when they chanced to meet in the Covered Market . |
| 2 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 3 | They tend to advertise in the appropriate specialist hobbies press and through the medium of direct mail . |
| 4 | Both sides need the points if they want to finish in the top two . ’ |
| 5 | They do not have an awful lot of money but they want to act in the best interests of the child . ’ |
| 6 | They hope to complete in the next ICC Trophy event , which will be held in Kenya in 1994 , from which three countries will progress to the World Cup proper . |
| 7 | The easiest way I have found to assess the strength of this group of goals is to give individuals a single sheet of paper and to ask them to write down in five minutes what they hope to achieve in the next five years . |
| 8 | They seemed to glow in the flickering green-gold gold light , as if embraced by a holy nimbus . |
| 9 | They came to roost in the late 1960s in the form of industrial decline and regional decay . |
| 10 | The apparent ineffectiveness of naval forces , particularly when contrasted with the vital role which they came to play in the sixteenth century , may have turned students against the subject . |
| 11 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 12 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 13 | If only they 'd stayed in the little home on the train . |
| 14 | Colin Shawyer of the Hawk and Owl Trust will explain how to dissect owl pellets to find out what barn owls eat — and how they manage to survive in the modern world . |
| 15 | They begin to appear in the first quarter of the eighteenth century , a remnant of the funerary effigy , though it is not recorded that nobles , apart from those of royal blood , ever had them ( Cromwell and General Monck excepted ) . |
| 16 | Matron said she 'd find the others and they arranged to meet in the sick bay . |
| 17 | They like living in the dappled shade of taller trees . |
| 18 | Then on December 31 , right before they started ringing in the new tax year , executive vice president Ron Lachman wrote out a cheque to Systemhouse buying back the piece of Interactive that had originally been the most famous part of the old Lachman Associates ( UX No 220 ) . |
| 19 | Many dolphins drown as the net is pulled and tightened towards the side of the seiner , and they become trapped in the closing mesh . |
| 20 | They chose to live in the grander of the two houses , and Wood Dalling was demoted to a farmhouse and remained thus until comparatively recently . |
| 21 | I had often wondered why they chose to settle in the thick woodlands on heavy clay . |
| 22 | We retired to our chamber , made ourselves as comfortable as our bleak quarters would allow , and later joined the rest of the household when they gathered to dine in the small hall . |
| 23 | However , I shall argue that it is only when they do point in the same direction that conditions are suitable for the development of intelligent beings who can ask the question : why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands ? |
| 24 | Did they cease to bind in the early s when various legal restrictions were removed ? |
| 25 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 26 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 27 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 28 | where you , you get a scale response to them and we can do stats on but equally , if you get people to describe their most recent dream or describe their most erm , you know , compelling dream or , you know , a good one that they 've had in the last year or something like that , you may want to try and get that on tape or something like that erm if possible , yeah . |
| 29 | Throughout the 1930s Hollywood was to make films condemning various abuses and malpractices in the American system and there were always to be films which clung to the conventions of the city film as they had emerged in the early part of the decade . |
| 30 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |