Example sentences of "they [verb] several " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you will see , these sections between them raise several important analytical questions . |
| 2 | Lots of them tried several times before succeeding . |
| 3 | For ahead of them lies several more hours of hard study and concentration , either at home or at night school . |
| 4 | These structures gave them strength and enabled them to stand several centimetres tall . |
| 5 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 6 | Pool found themselves being hard pressed by as after taking an early lead through Michael Smithies , they squandered several good scoring chances before scrambling home by the only goal of the match . |
| 7 | They met several times more up to 1985 , but seem to have remained in touch until the last few months of Ceauşescu 's rule . |
| 8 | Although they met several times a day and were on good terms , the chief superintendent always felt uncomfortable in the commander 's presence : he was an earnest , church-going man who never laughed , never drank , never swore and rarely showed emotion . |
| 9 | They made several unsuccessful attempts before managing to enter Paperweight and take the items , most of which were later recovered . |
| 10 | Editor , — Martin E Wilkie and colleagues have prepared a comprehensive review on diagnosis and management of urinary tract infection in adults , but they made several statements that are not necessarily firmly established or on which recent views have changed . |
| 11 | yep , and we developed theo that business here in fact in Suffolk , we were the very first Fire Brigade to , to do it in the seventies , er our own workshops made them erm the units and are now still making them , and the ideas were original ideas on , on , on the equipment and we made about three or four in , in when I retired and I think they made several others now like canteen vans , and erm breathing apparatus , er and so on . |
| 12 | They passed several canvases of Dutch landscapes glowing on the walls — trees huddled under magnificent skies or minute skaters twirling on expanses of ice . |
| 13 | The clothes in the boutiques were as superb as always , and by eleven-thirty she had managed to accumulate an assortment of bags which were beginning to feel as though they weighed several tons instead of a few pounds . |
| 14 | L. Khabarin , B. Mamyrin and V. Yudenich had discovered in 1978 that when they heated several metals to drive out helium trapped within , the gases were almost entirely helium-3 rather than helium-4 ; normally helium-4 is much more abundant , the helium-3 being the rare form . |
| 15 | That day they surrounded the farmhouse of the Baruffini family , where they found several prisoners . |
| 16 | He held the headset away from him , using only one ear as they tried several wavelengths . |
| 17 | I 'm informed they tried several times . ’ |
| 18 | They visited several public houses and the defendant 's ability to drive was clearly impaired . |
| 19 | They created several openings in the second half . |
| 20 | We showed that the effects of 5HT on ICJ transit are partially mediated by cholinergic mechanisms and that they involve several 5HT receptor subtypes . |
| 21 | Take the example of highly efficient light bulbs : they cost several times as much as equivalent incandescent bulbs , but can last 13 times as long , so the household budget benefits quickly . |
| 22 | The mosquitoes and the noise of the guns were not as important as they seemed several days ago . |
| 23 | They drove several miles at speeds of up to a hundred and twenty miles an hour . |
| 24 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 25 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 26 | They captured several outposts and with the arms they gathered were able to equip larger forces . |
| 27 | They print several times faster than dot matrix printers . |
| 28 | They also collected some weapons recovered from parishioners and — more important in this mounted guerrilla warfare — they collected several saddles . |
| 29 | Tonight , though , that seemed out of the question , and as they hurried into the hospital through its large , brightly lit main foyer , they walked several yards apart . |
| 30 | As they grow they moult several times . |