Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | They lay there covered in soil and broken branches , their breath aching in repressed pants , the post-climax moment unhurried by blind fumbling for a towel . |
2 | If they remain chronically incapacitated for work they can now claim invalidity benefit at a higher rate . |
3 | They sit around waiting for Daryl . |
4 | They tend ultimately to move towards repression and violence at worse , and apathy at best . |
5 | They stopped only to pick up Cheryl , who saw them coming a long way off and ran down to the road to meet them . |
6 | Well they say always start on A do n't they ? |
7 | These tiny , black , dried leaves are also known as cloud ears ; when soaked , they puff up to look like clouds . |
8 | The other two were good as well — they 'd both passed for Sergeant , stable , fine fellers . |
9 | But and you know , like , for mothers er trying to get buggies and shopping and everything up , they 'd either to go up stairs or down stairs . |
10 | erm because , to get in to the flat they 'd either to go up stairs from the deck , or downstairs from the deck , and to try and manage that with small children , probably a buggy and shopping as well . |
11 | She listened without interrupting and was impressed with the way he had thought it through , his plans being laid before they 'd even landed at Manchester . |
12 | Good , they 'd already forgotten about Zaria . |
13 | You mean to say er i , they 'd only lived in Bournemouth do n't you ? |
14 | She 'd been very happy that Sunday , 13 years ago , when they 'd all gone to Adam 's for lunch . |
15 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
16 | there were five red and gold crackers on the starched , white cloth and all the presents were ready in the old pillowcases they 'd all used for years at Christmas . |
17 | The thing had gone on so long they 'd actually retired from nursing . |
18 | Nobody had wanted to be regularly policed as people were abroad , preferring to leave it to the magistrates to swear in special constables as they 'd always done in times of civil disturbance , or use the troops . |
19 | Rather like pathological ‘ organisation men ’ , they seem so addicted to bureaucracy that they ca n't get enough of it in their day jobs . |
20 | They run off laughing like parrots as my companion shouts after them in disgust . |
21 | On 6 August they landed near Ringhorn in Fife . |
22 | Equally , The Smiths counterparts in the rock field , say , U2 may make fine music but they shy away to hide behind subtleties of abstract lyricism . |
23 | Nevertheless , the chance to perform before large Smiths crowds was an exciting opportunity for Easterhouse and they set about rehearsing in earnest . |
24 | and this chappie had a double hip replacement operation , it 's been on the television here and er , he said they started off dancing with Sammy Davis , you know , er what 's it called , Tip Tap Toe or something like that , they , they act Sammy Davis and his , and his parents and then these two chaps I , I mean they had n't made it big time |
25 | At half-past eleven the house was so quiet they decided not to wait until midnight . |
26 | A principal feature of the flow as a whole may then be the following : large eddies of the eruption type originate close to the wall as described in Section 21.6 ; as they move away from the wall they become increasingly influenced by buoyancy , until , at large heights , they resemble the free convection plumes to be described in Section 22.7 . |
27 | They become so blinded by adoration they manage to convince themselves their child has qualities of genius . |
28 | It 's basically going to be on the Poll Tax in the elections and how Oxford against the Poll Tax sort of considers to be the most important element sort of determining people 's decision when they go in to vote on Thursday . |
29 | It started as a minor incident involving a petrol tanker , but then other vehicles travelling too fast for the foggy conditions found they counld n't stop in time and crashed as well . |
30 | With the ex-Callie , they took longer to adapt to nationalization I think , than the rest of the railway . |