Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to everyone 's great disappointment they showed hardly any signs of pleasure . |
| 2 | Despite the fact that both Eric and Jason contribute songs — on the sprawling 23-track ‘ Sebadoh III ’ album they share roughly half the groove space between them — this current electric Sebadoh set-up looks organised primarily to suit Barlow 's brutally poignant , heart-snaring laments , of which he has an apparently endless supply . |
| 3 | See well th the dredger they get now , the little dredger they got now that should hold about four hundred ton . |
| 4 | While second homes consist merely of properties no longer wanted as first homes they cause relatively few problems ; but when they grow beyond this , political , social , economic and environmental problems arise . |
| 5 | No wonder they make so much profit . |
| 6 | The more often they mate , the more likely they are to be the one who fertilises the eggs , and the more certain they can be that the offspring they expend so much time and energy in rearing are theirs . |
| 7 | If I remember correctly , ’ he says , ‘ for the trials they brought out some legal people , people who were given a military rank and sat as judges at the war crime tribunals . |
| 8 | The rapid loss of the rainforests ( 11–15 million hectares every year ) is incalculable , as a habitat they contain almost half of all known animal species . |
| 9 | When they repeated their experiment with ozone produced from pure oxygen they found very little effect . |
| 10 | Very short booms are used by experts in strong winds , but in light winds they have very little steering ability . |
| 11 | And when they returned to the main column they told how this one had fought like three men against ten times as many of the barbarians . |
| 12 | I had a most interesting meeting in Scotland with all of our lay delegates there , erm on Friday and some of you within British Gas will know that in Scotland they 've even more problems with the M A P L than any of the other regions because they were operating a different system to start with in the first place . |
| 13 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 14 | For the first few months of the campaign they had very few weapons and virtually no ammunition . |
| 15 | In Diana 's words it can provide ‘ disabled people with freedom from the wheelchair they spend so much of their life in , making them as mobile as the next gust of wind ’ . |
| 16 | They look mean , sleek and powerful … and when you open up the throttle they do n't half shift . |
| 17 | They were doing in that shop exactly what they intended to do and in all probability , what they intended to do from the moment they got up that morning . |
| 18 | It was obvious to everyone from the moment they sat down that Zach was bursting to tell them something . |
| 19 | Pursuing the notion of building sex education into the curriculum , I asked whether they would not be embarrassed to talk about sex with a teacher they saw around all the time . |
| 20 | In those days they had very few clothes . |
| 21 | On the one hand the British were frequently too interested in East–West military disengagement in Germany , and on the other they showed too little interest in Western European integration . |
| 22 | For a while they made so much work for the bailiffs that they had little time to harass the Nonconformists . |
| 23 | In the past , they had a handsome lifestyle , but few of them have new projects to pursue ; all they can do is sit on their hands , rueing the day they paid so much for the land they were keen to build on . |
| 24 | I know some of the weird things they brought in that , towards the latter end of the war . |
| 25 | I really just wanted to see er just wanted to see the sort of range of things they did now this is more like it you see Effective Writing , Report Writing , Technical Report Writing , Business Sales Corres , Editing House Journals Writing for Publication , Desk Top Publishing , things like working with the media these are more the sort of things that I would see people |
| 26 | In other words while the public may have all watched the same news they did n't all see it in the same way . |
| 27 | ‘ Last week they fired off another 250 lads just after they had finished their apprenticeship . |
| 28 | And he condemned ‘ the perverted logic of loyalist terrorists ’ , describing the four murders they carried out this week as ‘ evil and inhuman ’ outrages . |
| 29 | Although they battled strongly throughout the game they lost too many counts at crucial times . |
| 30 | Here , the outputs depend on the states they had previously that is , Q = 1 , if S was 1 previously . |