Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But neither man could entirely ignore North 's fevered memoranda , insisting that without the awful procession of weapons shipments the hostages would die ; and both men , while they were in office , had to go each morning to a president who would ask them what they were doing and importune them to try harder . |
| 2 | But to everyone 's great disappointment they showed hardly any signs of pleasure . |
| 3 | The only sour note was when her memories coincided with those of the supporting artistes and she duplicated a couple of songs they had already warbled through . |
| 4 | The familiar modern terminology was already in use : " bull " already described a dealer who bought stock and sold it ahead of having to pay for it , while " bear " applied to those who contracted to sell stock they had yet to obtain . |
| 5 | ‘ P'raps they 've only had twelve weeks ’ trainin' as well , ’ said Tommy , hopefully . |
| 6 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 7 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 8 | Although both the credal and experimental forms of predestinarianism may now appear harsh and inflexible creeds , during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries they accorded well with the political and social realities of life in England . |
| 9 | Partly due to their systematic exclusion , but also as a matter of choice , feminist artists increasingly preferred to display their work in settings they considered more appropriate to their desire to participate in the more public/political debates of feminism and a recognition of art as a communicative medium . |
| 10 | Or perhaps they sort through the plastic bag of pubic hairs they keep specially to place on the side of your bath before you check in ? |
| 11 | Away from the influence of the husbands they cope remarkably well . " |
| 12 | Of course , outputting them at 300dpi meant making some sacrifices so Adobe build in a mechanism for improving the shapes of the characters at low resolution , the technique is called hinting , and to protect their investment they encrypted both the typefaces and the hinting method so that the faces would only work properly with their own version of PostScript . |
| 13 | Many mentioned the practical steps they had already devised : altering curriculum materials , deliberately avoiding the use of stereotyped language , studying patterns of classroom interaction and thinking of ways to increase girls ' participation . |
| 14 | When mealworms were given to a group of meerkats by means of a cleverly designed dispenser their activity increased enormously and the pattern was on a par with that of the wild populations ; without such a dispenser they showed more lethargic , passive and atypical behaviour patterns . |
| 15 | It is apparent that even where investigations have commenced within physical geography they have often proceeded to become intertwined with other disciplines . |
| 16 | Inevitably , though , some people missed the point entirely and as a result they 've often been tarred by the indiscriminate brush of ‘ gothic rock ’ . |
| 17 | They have cut the price , er of meals charged to the children , they 've er made some adjustments o c , to the menus offered , which was what the parents wanted , and as a result they 've actually increased the take-up of school meals by something like sixty percent . |
| 18 | As a result they have also been trapped into importing food , an operation with considerable potential for losses , although ameliorated by exchange rate policy . |
| 19 | As a result they have traditionally commanded higher wages than most other manual workers . |
| 20 | O'Connor points out that demands for the game in Budapest is based on the dangerous presumption that the Republic will beat Northern Ireland — a result they have yet to achieve after three meetings . |
| 21 | Their 15-9 victory over Wales at Cardiff Arms Park last December was beyond dispute the most significant result they have ever achieved on foreign soil . |
| 22 | They are generally healthier and put on weight , and as a result they multiply faster and cause an increase in the size and frequency of pest outbreaks . |
| 23 | A committee may be pardoned for insisting on hearing candidates they had never heard , but it is scarcely pardonable that they should expect one who is not a candidate , and whose qualifications they had the best opportunity of knowing , to stake his reputation in any such way . |
| 24 | The wild females apparently did not recognise , nor would have anything to do with , these artificially-produced ‘ mules ’ even though to human eyes they looked perfectly normal ! |
| 25 | Like there were them lads they had fucking four in a glass like and , there was loads of , so many drinks like I served loads . |
| 26 | Im afraid its the usual pro footballer thing where they say nice things about the club they ve just joined . |
| 27 | MIPS can also not depend on its high-end Unix vendors like Concurrent Computer Corp , Control Data Systems Inc , NCR Corp , Pyramid Technology Corp and Tandem Computers Inc , to absorb more than 15% more than the 60,000 units they do already . |
| 28 | When they heard the car they went carefully downstairs , and her mother settled her in while her father held the door and Alan put her bag in the boot . |
| 29 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
| 30 | In the Queens Head one drinker murmured about seeing a man in a green and black tracksuit , another had spied a red car they had never noticed before . |