Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not , however , collect bone , and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone . |
| 2 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |
| 3 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
| 4 | Their social and economic pre-eminence was just beginning to seem more precarious and they wholeheartedly welcomed vigorous confirmation of the regime 's commitment to the status quo . |
| 5 | Boosted by that success , Scotland looked for more , and they duly obliged three minutes into the second half when Paul Telfer 's flag-kick was met by Duncan Ferguson 's deadly forehead , the ball speeding past a bemused Tony Mallia . |
| 6 | In the circumstances in which they were used they powerfully augmented other forces of change by providing data on the state of society at a period when so little was known . |
| 7 | They eventually become black families in white skins . |
| 8 | Eventually , after some awkward silences in the kitchen while they grimly drank endless cups of coffee , they settled for organising the party . |
| 9 | Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me . |
| 10 | It was on the agenda and at seven o'clock the at night they eh they adjourned the meeting cos they only got half way through the agenda |
| 11 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 12 | They only sell good ones in Alders . |
| 13 | They had issued the caution , now they were anxious to get on with the questioning , and they only had six hours from the time of the caution in which to hold her . |
| 14 | Luckily we had bought them from friends who ran a nearby saddler 's shop ; unluckily they only had coarse blades in stock for our make of clippers . |
| 15 | Koalas are kept very seldom outside Australia because they only eat certain kinds of eucalyptus trees which do not grow elsewhere . |
| 16 | Orfe are ideal inhabitants for a planted pond , as they only eat small amounts of plant material . |
| 17 | First , the dual polity model suggests that the US states and local governments , plus Congress , are fundamentally pluralist in their organization and operations because they only handle secondary issues of little importance for national elites ( Mills , 1956 , p. 244 ) . |
| 18 | They only have seven minutes in which to do so . |
| 19 | er the Japanese now they went to Nissan , they only do one thing at , one thing each |
| 20 | Gangs may fight their rivals for the sake of supremacy and pride , but they only attack innocent strangers for fun . |
| 21 | No doubt people reckoned that they only needed one pair of sheets , but they were wrong . |
| 22 | The insulation panels for Rockwell sheet are profiled to match the sheet and as well as providing thermal insulation they greatly reduce any risk of condensation forming on the underside of the sheet . |
| 23 | Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . " |
| 24 | Finally , because the British were so much further advanced than the French in nuclear matters , they naturally received more information from the Americans , thus reinforcing their preferential position compared with other allies . |
| 25 | The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnamese frontier is the arbitrary point at which South-East gives way to North-East Asia — the industrial powerhouse of the Pacific , the region that most economists and businessmen mean when they idly refer these days to ‘ Asia ’ . |
| 26 | In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it . |
| 27 | Because they saw the Pope as the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholics as apostates , they fiercely attacked all Church of England rites and ceremonies which followed those of Rome , including its set prayers , its administration of the Sacraments , the use of altars instead of tables , its celebrations of saints ' days , its music and its vestments . |
| 28 | As such they literally situate social change despite the fact that such change is increasingly the product of centralised authority and power . |
| 29 | Such acts did not , however , amount to a programme of action ; they merely represented instinctive hostility to outsiders . |
| 30 | The two pictures are not , however , incompatible , they merely highlight different aspects of meaning . |