Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [art] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then other firms did that and er they was the same people nearly , got their own lines and it was worse that was , so they got onto the same lines and er the competition became then financial |
| 2 | A long-eared owl sat on a low bough overlooking the ride and watched them unblinkingly through his great eyes as they passed within a few paces . |
| 3 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 4 | They moved on a few steps , again stood together , and wrote , " Angry . |
| 5 | They appear in the most numbers where the marshes meet the wolds and where the stream that feed them from this higher region are , in consequence , faster flowing . |
| 6 | This perennial plant 's big , bold , green clumps , measuring 90cm/3ft high and the same in diameter , grow even bigger and more productive before they deteriorate after a few years ' growth , and are then best replaced . |
| 7 | The University 's Alumni Office can provide help and advice to groups , whether they consist of a few friends who meet informally from time to time , a group from a particular department or year who wish to arrange a special reunion , or a more established society like the ones described on these pages . |
| 8 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 9 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 10 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 11 | They walked for a few minutes in silence . |
| 12 | " They talked for a few moments , and then he handed her an envelope and walked away . |
| 13 | They chatted for a few minutes but Treloar had nothing more to say . |
| 14 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 15 | They laughed at the same things . |
| 16 | He listened to what she said and they laughed at the same things . |
| 17 | They looked at the same things together as they walked through the ruins of Milan . |
| 18 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |
| 19 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 20 | However both males and females differ in the control which they have over the many muscles , including the diaphragm , used in voice production . |
| 21 | They stood for a few moments in shy silence , staring from one to another . |
| 22 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 23 | Now that Elizabeth had exhausted the topic of Martha , they sat for a few moments in silence , one each side of the fire with a cup of tea . |