Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oppression lay on me like a dead beast , not gaunt and stiff-legged like the animals which lay where they had dropped along the desert road , but soft and smothering like something from which the breath had only just gone . |
| 2 | The motorhome will be the lucky winners ' base for the next two weeks , offering them freedom to go where they please to explore New Zealand 's unspoilt areas of breathtaking , natural beauty . |
| 3 | ‘ Where , in the case of any fishing vessel , the Secretary of State is satisfied that — ( a ) the vessel would be eligible to be registered as a British fishing vessel but for the fact that any particular individual , or ( as the case may be ) each of a number of particular individuals , is not a British citizen ( and is accordingly not a qualified person ) , and ( b ) it would be appropriate to dispense with the requirement of British citizenship in the case of that individual or those individuals , in view of the length of time he has or they have resided in the United Kingdom and been involved in the fishing industry of the United Kingdom , the Secretary of State may determine that that requirement should be so dispensed with ; and , if he does so , the vessel shall , so long as paragraph ( a ) above applies to it and any such determination remains in force , be treated for the purposes of this Part as eligible to be registered as a British fishing vessel . |
| 4 | In general , this does not apply to local employment , because the newcomers either retain their employment in nearby towns and commute to work or they have come to the countryside to retire . |
| 5 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 6 | According to dozens of villagers , journalists , and workers for the opposition candidate , the journalist grandson of Mahatma Gandhi , Mr Rajmohan Gandhi , who is no relation to the incumbent Prime Minister , there have been scores of such incidents in Amethi in systematic attacks that suggest that they have had sanction from higher authority . |
| 7 | In spite of official acceptance of the suggested reforms by both government and the Civil Service , various examinations into the implementation of the proposals suggest that they have had very little real effect . |
| 8 | Another interesting point is that measurements of the velocity dispersion of the galaxies in HCG62 suggest that they have drifted inwards by a factor of about three compared with the dark matter . |
| 9 | Neil adds that they 've collected money for charity up and down the mountains and its restored his faith in human nature |
| 10 | Neil Holden , Hambro Clearing 's finance director , adds that they had to put in ‘ quite a lot of effort gathering the data . |
| 11 | But if they did n't speak with tongues how did Simon know that they had received the Holy Spirit ? |
| 12 | Balor would at once know that they had outwitted Inchbad and Goibniu . |
| 13 | I did n't know that they produced according to peak |
| 14 | Any council which has adopted ‘ wheely bins ’ — those menacing lidded daleks that line the pavement once a week — will know that they have increased the average volume of collected waste dramatically . |
| 15 | How , to start with , do they know that they have reached part of the sea where the water below them has suddenly become very much deeper ? |
| 16 | Erm , well I do n't know Wendy , I 'll have to go into that when I , I do n't think they have , I do n't know that they have charged me for , well they 've certainly charged me for the new wiring . |
| 17 | The trainees will know that they have achieved this competence . |
| 18 | Whether you agree or disagree with what they do , you have to accept that they 've worked out a very complicated system of values . |
| 19 | We can not expect teachers of science , history of geography to accept that they need to know about , say , the nature of language or the multiplicity of its functions , unless we can show how the need for this knowledge derives — by a chain of relevance sufficiently direct to be convincing — from their own search for greater pedagogic effectiveness . |
| 20 | But the shaming should not be of a ‘ stigmatizing ’ nature which will tend to exclude them from being accepted members of the community ; it should be of a kind which serves to reintegrate them within it , by getting them to accept that they have done wrong while encouraging others to readmit them to society . |
| 21 | She wanted their parents to know that they had had an accident , were safely aboard a Royal Navy ship and would be home soon . ’ |
| 22 | The darkness was almost complete now ; she could only see the faintest outline of his features , enough to know that they 'd taken on a hard , determined cast . |
| 23 | Both are happy with the set-up and for people to know that they have come to an arrangement on leading separate lives . |
| 24 | Many people wish to plan their funerals in advance , and to know that they have set aside the money to pay for them : |
| 25 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 26 | It is difficult not to infer that they grew to suffer deprivations more impatiently and to believe more strongly that earthly happiness was attainable . |
| 27 | Clients often report that they stop seeing themselves as abnormal when they meet others in a similar situation . |
| 28 | Erm now erm a number of people erm , getting on t back on to the handout for a moment , er a number of people who 've reported being b abused as children also report that they do try and tell people , either at the time or shortly afterwards , and this business of not being believed is quite a common report from survivors , not being believed at first . |
| 29 | Engineers in managerial positions should therefore recognise that they have enhanced responsibilities in three important respects : the introduction and operation of a proper risk management programme ; the effective discharge of their broader duties , so that they do not themselves become a source of risk ; and in the making of judgements relating tot he tolerability of risk . |
| 30 | He even embellished the story in a flood of fluent German , explaining that they had captured the British truck and had had a hard time of it at the front . |