Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During a visit to the Galapagos in 1835 , Charles Darwin was fascinated by these birds , and they eventually played a central role in developing his theory of evolution through natural selection . |
| 2 | It goes on to say and it came about that in thy journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valid plain and a land of Shinar and they took up growing there and they began to say each one to the other come on let us make bricks and bake and bake with a burning process , so bricks served as stone for them and |
| 3 | A British embassy official wrote to the Foreign office , " It seems that they only got a fourth-floor berth at the Excelsior … because some Persian industrialist vacated his suite . " |
| 4 | They only lasted a short period , but the Command engineer followed up at once with proper drawings aid specified the correct heat resisting metal . |
| 5 | The Transport Department is said by the report to " have recently admitted that they only put a nominal value on public open space which would be destroyed by a proposed road scheme " . |
| 6 | The youngest ones are the Institute of the future and they only require a little encouragement ( a twist of an arm ) and they will become reliable , enthusiastic committee members , secretaries or chairmen . |
| 7 | ‘ In places like Tynedale they only had a small stock of housing anyway and that 's been reduced . |
| 8 | He declared contemptuously that their only well-developed mental quality was their memory , that they only had a small amount of intelligence , and that they were ‘ incapable of affection for man. , |
| 9 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 10 | And what happens is that females , females have pouches that produce eggs but they only hold a small , they only hold a small volume . |
| 11 | ‘ Oh well , ’ said very prettily , ‘ I can put up with mosquitoes since they only take a little nibble . |
| 12 | The wardens originally received twenty shillings for their work plus expenses ; now they only receive a small allowance towards their expenses , which is paid after they have served their two year term . |
| 13 | They call these intelligence , even though they only represent a small part of the mind 's capacity . |
| 14 | Finally , one can always sell the gold and any good jeweller is likely to be interested ; in my experience , however , they only offer a modest premium over the world 's spot price and , quite honestly , it is a meagre reward for all the effort . |
| 15 | Although studies of land use like those outlined above provide useful overall data , they only produce a limited picture of what the countryside actually looks like and how it is changing in appearance , and this type of study remains at the heart , if not the mind , of many of even the most socioeconomic quantitative geographers . |
| 16 | Of the three informants ( 10% ) who marked it , at this late stage , as an SF element , two indicated that they only read a small amount of SF , and the other said that she never read anything of the genre . |
| 17 | But within this group he looks specifically at solid tumours and they only have a four year survival of twenty percent . |
| 18 | big like gun in like a staple thing it was , but it was a la , it was an extended one , fitted inside this rubber hose and then , clamp it and they only have a little bit of stomach left so they ca n't eat proper meals |
| 19 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 20 | They 've uncovered the remains of a first century village and graveyard … but they only have a short time to dig up the relics , before work continues on a pipeline straight through the site . |
| 21 | Social relations with the royal family were sporadic , especially as they only spend a small part of the year on their 20,000-acre estate . |
| 22 | their high tea , were n't bothered about high tea , but still , er then , they 'd have , they might have a supper because she ai n't been a work , their elderly , they perhaps have a good tea , the they , they went to bed at nine and they said if I was reading something , they said , you know turn the gas out when you come up and , there you are well you can see , if one landlady gave me egg for me lunch that I had n't had , they not , they were n't gon na feed you up at supper time were they ? |
| 23 | They necessarily have a narrow compass . |
| 24 | People in late twentieth-century Britain do not necessarily do less for their relatives than they have done for the past two centuries , nor do they necessarily have a weaker sense of obligation , but they do have to work out the nature of their relationships and the patterns of support associated with them , in circumstances which are very different from the past . |
| 25 | In an attempt to remove the influence of the janissaries from Istanbul , where they naturally formed a powerful opposition to his reforms , Mahmud tried to buy them off by offering them a virtually free hand in garrisoning the remote provinces of the empire . |
| 26 | There are the lucky ones who have a superbly adapted metabolism : they naturally have a low blood cholesterol level , they can eat almost any type of food , in large quantities , and yet remain healthy and slim . |
| 27 | ‘ They obviously need a happy home environment — and , as far as I 'm concerned , that 's exactly what they are going to get , ’ he continued remorselessly , completely ignoring her interjection . |
| 28 | They sensibly retained a regional fuel cost differential to reflect differing local coal costs , and their two-part bulk supply tariff , based on both a capacity charge per kW of peak demand and a running charge per kWh also sensibly reflected costs . |
| 29 | When the knights reformed in front of them they suddenly launched a wild shout , and welded into one moving weapon , that aimed itself at the enemy beyond the river , and this time did not halt . |
| 30 | They suddenly hit a clear patch in the clouds and Brown checked their position from a sight of the Pole Star , Vega and the Moon . |