Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it a covered building or do they just meet outside ? |
| 2 | ‘ We may produce guidance to local authorities or call them in for private chats ’ . |
| 3 | If you want to share them , put a new condom on them for each user or wash them thoroughly in hot water ( as long as the toy is not electrical ! ) . |
| 4 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 5 | Most frogs lay eggs coated in jelly and then abandon them , but some rear their eggs in pouches on their back , in their throat sacs or hold them back in their oviducts . |
| 6 | Probably the majority of paedophiliacs suppress their inclinations or indulge them only in fantasy . |
| 7 | members of staff who may be required to brief candidates or show them around ; |
| 8 | In future , students will be able to take individual Higher National Units or build them up to gain group HNC or HND awards . |
| 9 | erm , and to use a word that would be used in other areas , retraining goes on , amongst the judiciary or do they just get to this pinnacle , and then hold it against all comers , until they choose to retire , I mean , in any other , er , job where you have a peculiar expertise , like that , you would be expected to update yourself , to keep up with the trends , you would be sent away to conferences , and retraining courses . |
| 10 | Having obtained your two pieces of wood , place them one on top of the other , ensuring that they are exactly square , and tape or clamp them securely together . |
| 11 | Let your hands lie loosely in your lap , palms upward , during the interview or clasp them lightly together . |
| 12 | Any system which is exhaustively described by Figure 9 would be incapable of repeating nonsense words or reading them aloud or writing them to dictation . |
| 13 | Then make a Jelly with pipins & put them in . |
| 14 | As well as the academic and professional qualifications , accountants who aspire to the de rigueur red braces must also have personal characteristics that set them apart . |
| 15 | These divergent states are often subjectively perceived as having distinctive characteristics that mark them out as discrete varieties : people can recognize regional varieties such as ‘ Birmingham ’ English , ‘ Yorkshire ’ English and so on , and they often have a fairly clear idea of how such varieties are distinguished from one another . |
| 16 | The species of plants and animals that inhabit them today have adapted , where adaptation was needed , only during the current ice age . |
| 17 | She had bright blue eyes that surveyed them warily . |
| 18 | Girls can be encouraged to take modules in technology without feeling they are committing themselves to two years ' or more work ; low achieving pupils can take a range of modules without suffering the indignity of following a programme that marks them out as ‘ different ’ . |
| 19 | While it is true that cause could be inserted in ( 134 ) , it is significant that the writer has used make with a subject ( " enzymes " ) which actively produces chemical reactions and is even described in the same sentence as an agent that speeds them up . |
| 20 | They want ties that link them more to each other — through mutual defence pacts — and to the West , if it can be done without infuriating the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | OK , there might n't perhaps be all that much left over now from the early joys of their marriage ; yet , in an odd sort of way , the longer they 'd abjured the divorce-courts , the stronger had grown the ties that bound them together : home , children , friends , memoria , insurance policies ; and above all , perhaps , the sheer length — the ever-increasing length — of the time they 'd spent together as man and wife . |
| 22 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 23 | Apparently it was Miles ' fishing that got them up so early . |
| 24 | The surge that brought them forward had cut them off . |
| 25 | No it is n't erm and erm even those who in , in my experience who did get through there was just an occasional er time when they did n't pass that part of it , they , they , they , they could n't quite manage that , the height side frightened them and er they failed , erm so there 's quite a lot of demands on them and I 'm sure that a lot of women could do it and a lot of women if they had the chance would do it or would , if they were willing to do it , but it 's not something that grabs most women , I do n't think it does , I think it 's the physical side that puts them off , and that is what is the problem with the Fire Service , it is a physical job . |
| 26 | When he turned to look at her with some compassion , she walked the few steps that kept them apart and , staring at him with desperate eyes , insisted , ‘ That woman in the docks … it was her , was n't it ? |
| 27 | ‘ Now , now , ’ Miss Louise called back sharply , ‘ mind your manners and let them in . ’ |
| 28 | Dad marched over , pulled my hands out of my ears and forced them down to my sides . |
| 29 | By managing the stock and thinning them out we 're getting larger and better shellfish . ’ |
| 30 | All these moves are aimed at beating the stress which can weaken new stock and make them more susceptible to the other little problems of a new tank . |