Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they 'd all took the long tours you know they really were interested |
| 2 | Soon they feel able to involve the other sex in their idyll . |
| 3 | While the politicians and administrators who framed the Act would not have wished to have espoused the notion of the ‘ undeserving poor ’ they felt unwilling to risk the public criticism that would have resulted from an approach to poverty that involved ignoring the potential waste on the ‘ work-shy ’ and the fraudulent application in order adequately to meet the needs of the majority of applicants . |
| 4 | Ann said they kept both wanting the same thing at the same time . |
| 5 | If you went into your Clarke 's shoe shop they 've all got the same clothes . |
| 6 | And they 've all got the same moves when they get hit as well , all the same |
| 7 | Everybody 's had a , and they 've all used the same word , apart from Peter who goes a bi little bit further than |
| 8 | In doing this they have first cheapened the original process of selection which is made meaningless , and then , they shoved their heads firmly back into the sand . |
| 9 | Even Trollope has his abbey , although he despised both Disraeli 's challenge to Young England and his novels : ‘ To me they have all had the same flavour of paint and unreality … a feeling of stage properties … and that pricking of the conscience which must be the general accompaniment of paste diamonds . ’ |