Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the latter were realigned or made anew they often met the earlier roads at a sharp angle on the parish boundaries . |
| 2 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 3 | Thus women are caught in a double bind : if they take a ‘ compliment ’ at face value they confirm men 's right to treat them as ‘ open persons ’ , while if they ignore the remark or reply negatively they may be accused of rudeness and/or showered with abuse . |
| 4 | The new law did n't stress how children should learn to speak standard English — or state how they should be taught to read . |
| 5 | They do not give the press or the universities or the churches the right to broadcast respectively the programmes on the news , education or religion , or to determine how they should be broadcast ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 9 ) . |
| 6 | These comparisons were never made or implied once they were both back in Purley . |
| 7 | There are some very good science programs on TV , but others present scientific wonders simply as magic , without explaining them or showing how they fit into the framework of scientific ideas . |
| 8 | Do they correspond to legitimate scientific knowledge or do n't they ? |
| 9 | Or do n't they want to be ? |
| 10 | They having turkey at Christmas or do n't they let you know ? |
| 11 | are they having turkey at Christmas or do n't they , do n't you know ? |
| 12 | Or do n't they do adverts ? |
| 13 | And what happened when the boys got sex education , or did n't they ? |
| 14 | Did anyone get as far as buying a programme for the Villa game , or did n't they even go on sale ? |
| 15 | It 's important that home owners are recognizing that there is an over- provision of residential care in the county , and that they are responding and diverting some of their resources , or discussing how they may well , er , divert some resources into home based er , packages of care . |
| 16 | Others were more positive and planned how they might use the waterways to improve their way of life . |
| 17 | And points out they have also received dozens of letters complimenting them . |
| 18 | If someone goes away with good memories of what they have seen and heard then they will come back and bring their family and friends . ’ |
| 19 | Women are advised to tell the emergency phone operator if they are alone and to wait where they are not immediately visible to approaching traffic . |
| 20 | They complained and asked why they were being treated differently from other couples . |
| 21 | So then Sir Bruce got hopping mad because nobody would tell him who they were talking about , and asked why they were so certain you were involved , and Six — it was that luminous dong Guy Husband and some new pin-up boy who runs the East German section-said they had their reasons and George could explain more . |
| 22 | Many plants spread naturally in this way , their flexible stems arching down and rooting where they rest on the ground , and gardeners have adopted this method for woody subjects otherwise difficult to propagate . |
| 23 | As a result of all this they realised that to complete the measurements on the range of electrodes and to see how they depend on the other experimental conditions would take nearly three years . |
| 24 | Broadly speaking , therefore , these two terms help us to define class boundaries and to see how they are sustained ( or not ) by the action of classes themselves within an economic system . |
| 25 | As they came close we watched as they demonstrated the subtle science of reading the often obscure words of the hymn and seeing where they were going at the same time . |
| 26 | ‘ We learn by just popping things in and seeing how they do . ’ |
| 27 | That is , going through various categories — education , qualifications , experience , etc. , and seeing how they match up with the picture of the ideal candidate which you built up . |
| 28 | I 'm sure she 'll write and explain why they went off like that . ’ |
| 29 | The critic Richard Buckle accompanied them and described how they sat in the stalls of the empty theatre afterwards while Balanchine told them ‘ what he liked and did not like about it and how it could be improved ’ . |
| 30 | Leitzig pointed to the rows of steel containers submerged in the water , and described how they had been transported to the plant in 100 tonne flasks with walls fourteen inches thick . |