Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 2 | In trying to struggle on independently they have less time to concentrate on schoolwork . |
| 3 | Men and women discharged from hospital with nowhere to live , or released from prison back into the community , are having to sleep rough or doss down wherever they can find a willing friend . |
| 4 | If nobody damn well tells them in the first place that they can opt out then they ca n't opt out can they ? |
| 5 | Because if one stands out then they lose what they 've got , they lose their job . |
| 6 | People like Garth Crooks , Mike MacFarlane and Garry Thompson traced back how they could have made their blackness the basis for defeatism , admitting that ‘ there 's no way a black guy can make it in this society . ’ |
| 7 | Segura believes that players must have enough pride when they lose to find out why they lost . |
| 8 | In some cases the State conducting the investigation ( by virtue of being the State of occurrence ) sought only to exonerate the services ( chiefly air traffic control and navigational services ) from any involvement in the cause of the accident while at the same time being content to attribute the cause of the accident to some shortcoming on the part of the pilots without seeking to find out why they made such mistakes . |
| 9 | I 'm supposed to investigate them to find out why they do n't all fall together . ’ |
| 10 | With such a low response , however , it was necessary to select some of the non-respondents in order to find out why they had not completed and returned the questionnaire , and whether their views and experiences of the Oxfordshire scheme differed significantly from those who had responded . |
| 11 | That is dreadful garage that did n't phone to find out why they had n't picked it up though , is n't it ? |
| 12 | Well I 'll have to find out where they go . |
| 13 | Usually I did this by writing to people asking if I might come and see them to find out how they were getting on . |
| 14 | New work has looked more deeply into the toxins ' structure to find out how they do their job so specifically . |
| 15 | Children are invited to find out how they trap ants , how they make their pits , what material they use . |
| 16 | ‘ It tells me nothing about my children , and I should n't have to keep contacting the Social Work Department to find out how they are . |
| 17 | Price Waterhouse is contacting the managements of companies on the Unlisted Securities Market to find out how they feel about The Stock Exchange 's plan to close the USM and its effective merger with the Official List . |
| 18 | The best way to find out how they were attached is to chisel away a little plaster next to the rail . |
| 19 | Dickerson and Brown began interviewing kids to find out how they felt about life , pressure and violence , and took the resulting screenplay , ‘ an adult story for kids ’ , he explains , to several studios and a host of big-name producers . |
| 20 | It may also prove helpful to talk to other firms which have relocated to find out how they went about planning and executing the relocation , the problems they faced and how they overcame them . |
| 21 | Talking to other people to find out how they plan to tackle the challenges as well as the opportunities of retirement can be immensely helpful . |
| 22 | The good copywriters of the old school used to wander round council estates with tape-recorders talking to people in their homes to find out how they talked : market research , in the form of group discussions , now provides part of the same service . |
| 23 | Leave them for a year , and then go back to find out how they are getting on . |
| 24 | And at any time before approaching the hives he 'd stand back and listen , to find out how they were getting on . |
| 25 | Are we as an authority in contact with equivalent authorities in other member states to find out how they are tackling things ? |
| 26 | Complicated and delicious meals had always found their way to the table , and she had enjoyed them without ever bothering to find out how they were concocted . |
| 27 | Second , they have to work harder than in the past to find out how they are faring in quite basic parts of the curriculum . |
| 28 | While householders fumed in queues to find out how they should pay , he was sunning himself on an Indian Ocean holiday . |
| 29 | I soon found out why they achieve only four or five minutes of film a day . |
| 30 | They , Peter , if he found out where they were coming from what might he do ? |