Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 2 | It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it . |
| 3 | The theory of risk compensation , which has been around for years , says that drivers adjust the amount of risks they take to keep their perceived level of risk constant . |
| 4 | But they were encouraged to take other risks because their basic business ( lending for house purchase ) was getting unprofitable , because supervision by federal examiners was weak and because federal deposit insurance in effect underwrote any risks they cared to take . |
| 5 | They are also changing the nature of the risks they choose to manage . |
| 6 | Frankly I 'm not surprised : look at the amount of garbage they choose to store . |
| 7 | Every motion sent her senses reeling , deeper and deeper into the furnace they had entered together , until at last , as she soared to a height of such intensity of feeling that she thought she must burst , something exploded in her brain , and she was awash with the dizzying sensation of all-consuming love . |
| 8 | So a legend which had originated with the attempts of Dark Age royal servants to give their masters a lineage as old and distinguished as that of the Western Roman emperors they had displaced continued in the twelfth century to satisfy the needs of new royal families and even of some princely houses . |
| 9 | ‘ Any artist thinking they have made it when they sign a recording contract is totally wrong , ’ warns Gatfield . |
| 10 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 11 | She pulled away and walked ahead of him along the corridor , hearing the measured tread of his footsteps as he followed , and to her over-sensitive ears they seemed to match exactly the pounding , thudding beat of her heart . |
| 12 | They wanted to stop then and there for the Sabbath — they and all the little stock they had brought with them . |
| 13 | A director would instruct dealers to tell their clients that an announcement was pending " in order to persuade them to buy more or to hold on to stock they wished to sell . |
| 14 | Marketmakers are able to offset against dividends received any dividends paid by them on stock they have purchased . |
| 15 | P'raps they 've gone blackberryin' , he thought and for a fleeting moment he wished that he was with them . |
| 16 | when I was doing that bit of collecting you know , and the people next , either side they 'd bought these council houses , you know , it 's a shame really |
| 17 | The girls , as in her mind she thought of the Misses Cardings , had trimmed it with a deep tone of lime-green velvet ribbon and in the heart of the bow at the side they had placed two tiny red silk rosebuds . |
| 18 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 19 | IN 1963 ABC TV published the findings of an experiment they had conducted some time earlier into the perception thresholds of children watching Television . |
| 20 | In exchange , Aunt Tossie remembered winners they had ridden , fours and sixes they had hit , centuries they had made , and their handicaps in polo . |
| 21 | For two centuries they had faced Celtic attacks . |
| 22 | When I traced my own family tree I found that the Heys had come into the parish of Penistone ( and more particularly to that part known as the township of Thurlstone where I lived ) about the year 1800 and that during the previous three centuries they had resided in Kirkburton parish immediately to the north . |
| 23 | for centuries they have stifled almost the whole of humanity in the name of a so-called spiritual experience . |
| 24 | To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral . |
| 25 | BRAZIL 's 1-0 victory over what amounted to a Holland B team in Rotterdam on Wednesday night continued the process of pragmatic regeneration they have undergone since the desultory performances in Europe last summer which left some observers wondering whether they would qualify for the World Cup at all . |
| 26 | In order to establish how police work is accomplished , therefore , it is necessary to examine such things as the common-sense notions ordinary policemen and women have about their role , what they consider to be the essence of police work , what typifications and categorizations infuse the practical reasoning they employ to accomplish policing tasks , and what ‘ recipes ’ or guide-lines they adopt in undertaking the various aspects of their job . |
| 27 | One does not have to agree with Shumiatski 's aim of revolutionizing the masses to accept these remarks as a nice corrective to those views of Chaplin as a proletarian and whatever the political reasoning they do offer insights into the psychology and social psychology of the ‘ little man 's ’ persona . |
| 28 | Many Koreans were affronted at the liberation of August 1945 being followed by the continued presence of Japanese and of the odious methods they had employed to suppress dissent . |
| 29 | They tried to use the methods they had learned at Harvard until these were vetoed by their new boss . |
| 30 | The Bolsheviks inherited a long tradition of centralist rule from which they had suffered , but whose methods they had imbibed only too deeply . |