Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their initial relationship is one of icy formality , but as time goes on they seem to have more in common … |
| 2 | Then as the evening goes on they begin to understand him and at the end they genuinely feel sorry and care for him . |
| 3 | And when the ā gri goes inside they remain fixed for an instant on the li ga and the ground around it , with the four white bodies , and the separate wide-eyed heads , and the stains of blood going brown already in the trampled grass . |
| 4 | sister 's on Christmas Eve , she lives somewhere they 've got this brilliant pub down there called the , Christmas Eve and then over to his mum and dad for Christmas Day , but I , I would n't want to stay here |
| 5 | What professional printers do at this stage or fine art printers would be to take their piece of paper using little paper fingerstalls so they did n't get their fingerprints on the paper . |
| 6 | The other thing is that they have a general idea of what Osman wants so they do n't bother about instructions , they just go out and do it . ’ |
| 7 | No doubt the privies , there were two of them , were much appreciated by the tenants , but one wonders how they managed for the previous two or three years . |
| 8 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |
| 9 | Figure 9.7 illustrates how they feed the east-west flow . |
| 10 | Who cares where they put the Channel Tunnel terminal when what really makes you cross is having to travel half an hour to find a park in which our kids can play — except , that is , if your street is in the line of blight ? |
| 11 | The sails have mainspars in their upper edges , and these act as pivots where they pass through the tube . |
| 12 | All of our departments are built round customer needs therefore they need to be regularly looked at and updated . |
| 13 | so when somebody says to him what sides your heart on and he says right they say no , he says yes it is |
| 14 | The comedian Spike Milligan held forth about God , Diana gave a priceless diamond and pearl necklace to a friend to look after while she danced ; while the Queen was observed looking through the programme and saying in bemused tones : ‘ It says here they have live music ’ , as though it had just been invented . |
| 15 | Elaine Thompson describes how they work , what they cost and outlines some of the developments for the future . |
| 16 | They are forced to call in the help of the gods , and the first episode describes how they provide a companion and foil . |
| 17 | It depends how they have to feel it . |
| 18 | He says sometimes they do get rogue tapes or summat . |
| 19 | They move about from plain to forest , or along the river valleys and in between the mountain passes where they buy , sell or steal things that they can re-sell to other Orcs or Goblins later on . |
| 20 | it depends where they go along there does n't it ? |
| 21 | It started campaigning against the council plans when they emerged last year . |
| 22 | I 've got gravel wounds in my back and my leg hurts where they took a skin graft . |
| 23 | If it 's alarm systems if the alarm goes off they phone the person in the house . |
| 24 | As the day wears on they begin to mock each other , particularly Neil Strachan , the melancholy Presbyterian geologist , who keeps ruling out half their best ideas as bloody tectonic impossibilities , and who ca n't do a convincing German accent for the life of him . |
| 25 | It ends up they stone him as he walks away . ’ |
| 26 | Knox recounts how they piled up a great heap of stones at the place of martyrdom , and no matter that the priests had them removed , and threatened excommunication , they were always replaced , until one night the papists found the permanent solution , taking them away to build into walls . |
| 27 | This chapter first presents some general findings about the cost of community services for different types of dementia sufferer , and shows how they increase over time . |
| 28 | The first part introduces the characters and shows how they set the action going because of their relationship or attitude to each other . |
| 29 | A classification of spearhead types has been made ( Swanton 1974 ) which shows how they have broad geographical distributions . |
| 30 | Dingwall , in another context , calls these stories ‘ atrocity stories ’ ( 1977 ) , and Richman shows how they feature prominently in the discourse of traffic wardens , in an attempt to socialize new recruits into what they can expect , as well as being a means of stressing the moral worth of traffic wardens : a concern which was high on the priorities of such a stigmatized occupational group ( Richman 1983 : 115 ) . |