Example sentences of "[verb] they [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Courtiers who had come to expect her barely to acknowledge them were suddenly treated to radiant smiles and cheerful banter . |
| 2 | They had both been asked about other men who were in France and answered patiently , knowing that the distraught women who asked them were only clutching at straws . |
| 3 | MI5 claimed to have carefully investigated each of the stories and told the inquiry that no evidence to support them was ever found . |
| 4 | these values have to have an intrinsically prescriptive character , so that to know them is necessarily to have the will affected in a certain way . |
| 5 | Can we persuade departments of the need to ensure that creation of such directories is mapped , and that the terms of reference and composition of working groups which created them are adequately documented ? |
| 6 | Spender implies that linguists are passively following a sexist rule of English grammar ; I suggest they are actively creating one . |
| 7 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 8 | Oh they probably do n't know they 're there do they ? |
| 9 | it was solid and it was all sort of , his age , fifteen , sixteen , seventeen , eighteen year olds and all vowing they 're never gon na sniff whatever again , you know all making these |
| 10 | After the war , Bomber Harris tried to get an issue of a campaign medal for the ground crews on operational airfields , as he maintained they were completely ignored when the medals were handed out . |
| 11 | Mind you , I expect they 're already fixed up with a vet . |
| 12 | The four partners — all Irish — had planned to be open for St Patrick 's Day but , as the photo shows , that did n't stop them unfurling their banner to indicate they were already prepared for next year . |
| 13 | However , it is my belief that when rabbits were introduced here and multiplied they were then predated upon by animals already resident . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd like a new member of staff to know they are there to help people who ca n't help themselves and they also must have one hell of a lot of patience ! |
| 15 | I sense they are both increasing . |
| 16 | They say they 're just trying to stretch brighter pupils by letting them use facilities not available at most primary schools . |
| 17 | Landlords say they 're increasingly serving more food than drink , especially in country pubs . |
| 18 | Local people say they 're already swamped by visitors to Snowshill Manor , a sixteenth Century house , but the National Trust say their plans are designed to ease overcrowding in the village . |
| 19 | The hospital say they 're urgently reveiwing security , and a city MP who 's campaigned for a year to get the offender moved to a high security hospital says he warned of such an escape . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Gas Board officials say they 're still baffled about the cause of a mains explosion on the A four one eight Thame to Oxford road yesterday . |
| 21 | Some tourist attractions say they 're still drawing in the crowds , although the immediate future is far from rosey . |
| 22 | Although many of the leading manufacturers , including SmithKline Beecham , have changed the formula of their drinks in the last few years so that they contain less sugar , dentists say they 're still getting far too many cases of two , three and four-year-olds with decaying milk teeth . |
| 23 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 24 | They say they 're only doing what the local council would do if it was allowed . |
| 25 | The club say they are already looking for a replacement . |
| 26 | Serbs say they are well treated but the ITN crew saw sick and emaciated men , many too scared to talk |
| 27 | The bigger , faster ferries will improve service timings to suit the driver-accompanied market to which North Sea Ferries say they are firmly committed . |
| 28 | They say they are always hooking rainbow trout which escaped from a fish farm , instead of the wild brown trout which are much harder to catch . |
| 29 | ‘ The government is very cautious — they say they are only talking about domestic accounting principles — but this is a big step forward . ’ |
| 30 | Thirty five years later servicemen who were forced to witness the test say they are still suffering physical and mental side-effects.So far the government has consistently denied a positive link between the two . |