Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 2 | ‘ They find accommodation where they set up a nursery , then sit back and wait for the right opportunity to arise . |
| 3 | This method brings library users into the actual building , where they carry out a series of practical tasks concerned with location of materials , photocopying , use of catalogues , borrowing routines and so on . |
| 4 | John Dunford , Philip King and John Kennedy had had this idea to record me ‘ live ’ in a pub , so they brought down a mobile unit to Winkles Hotel in Kinvara , and we were all there for three or four days . |
| 5 | The non-crystalline , that is the amorphous cellulose , has no mechanism for protecting its hydroxyls from moisture , since most of them are not firmly attached to their neighbours , and so they pick up a shell , round each hydroxyl , of any water molecules which are available . |
| 6 | I took it into to make it bigger , right , it was mum 's , so they said well we 've got to put valuation on it to send it away , so I said well I have n't got a clue , so they wrote down a thousand pound and I thought never in all this world . |
| 7 | Roy Keane , Niall Quinn , Ray Houghton , Steve Staunton and Kevin Moran will all incur a one-match ban if they pick up a second yellow card tomorrow . |
| 8 | Machines that are considered ‘ out of the way ’ in a corner of the room will be relatively more unsociable if they block off a doorway or interrupt television viewing . |
| 9 | What you gon na d right if they bring out a twelve hundred plus , so what . |
| 10 | If you know certain children are going to have difficulty in separating from parents , then it helps if they bring along a favourite toy . |
| 11 | If they send out a document that weighs a kilo for tapes and they sent that one , they 're losing twenty |
| 12 | In an ideal situation , flat and house sharers will have a less-anxious living space if they work out a few basic rules beforehand , which they all agree to comply with later . |
| 13 | If they dream up a bright profit-winning idea , even if it involves walking in the dirty waters of pornography as the 0898 service does , the Government are unable or unwilling to do anything about it , even over a six-year period . |
| 14 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
| 15 | The West Germans had not appeared to pose a threat to that plan until they wiped out a 2–0 deficit late in the second half of the quarter-final . |
| 16 | The socialist government feared a loss of government to the C.N.T. unless they held out a revolutionary future to the social masses . |
| 17 | We knew Malcolm had been really impressed with Hell in New York because they kept up a correspondence . |
| 18 | But ions can not probe non-conductors because they build up a charge on the surface , which distorts the analysis . |
| 19 | Such questions seem both searching and naive , searching because they open up a Pandora 's box of issues about the nature and structure of knowledge , naive because they are not usually asked , and doubtless can not be answered , in quite such a simple way . |
| 20 | Is he also aware that some of his colleagues have damaged their interests because they talked out a Bill designed to outlaw discrimination against disabled people ? |
| 21 | Perhaps because she liked the feel of the material ; perhaps because they opened up a glimpse of another world … |
| 22 | Their sovereign was immensely puzzled by the process and strongly suspected that some of them intended to secede and set up independent states in South America , but the conquests attracted special attention and gained retrospective approval because they opened up a great wealth of silver and gold for the treasury of the King of Spain . |
| 23 | There are now so many bikes in the city centre there 's a bike-park next-door to the library where cyclists can have their bikes repaired while they take out a book or go shopping . |
| 24 | It 's more than a month since they conjured up a victory . |
| 25 | The Whitburn side have surprised themselves with their progress since they mapped out a five-year development plan when Bob Stokes took over as coach three years ago . |
| 26 | A railway company has instructed its engine drivers that before they go over a crossing , they must sound their whistle , to give warning to anyone crossing . |
| 27 | Hibernian 0 Motherwell 0 HIBS ' prospects of finishing fourth in the Premier Division are fading fast after they served up a dreary scoreless draw against Motherwell before the lowest gate of the season at Easter Road . |
| 28 | But after they take off a stewardess appears . |
| 29 | You go dumb when you er when they switch on a |
| 30 | At the same time , at Edendale in Gore , Bruce Mackenzie , with the help of old Jan , bought a couple of good horses for his sons Sandy and Stu — ‘ for when they grew up a bit ’ . |