Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carriage had hardly halted in the Rectory drive before the door was torn open and the children came tumbling out with Mrs Chamberlin behind them vainly trying to exert some sort of control . |
| 2 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
| 3 | Two male friends dressed in drag appear , possibly as twin brides , preferably in long dresses or other outfits that keep them well covered to prevent any incidents among their own group or from outsiders . |
| 4 | They badly need to re-establish some credibility , after Warrington , and even they have found it hard to say ‘ no ’ to such a public appeal , from such an unique individual . |
| 5 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 6 | They only had to miss half a dozen meals and they started to complain . |
| 7 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 8 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 9 | Staff , on the other hand , felt that they constantly tried to do this , both through formal mechanisms , like the initial meeting , nursery booklet , parents ' nights , and also informally , through chat . |
| 10 | They just wanted to redress some glaring injustices in their terms of employment . |
| 11 | making up and they just start hitting each other and that ! |
| 12 | Despite their recognition that even the model example of Greek literacy was not always ‘ unambiguous ’ , explicit and easy , they nevertheless tend to represent these qualities as ‘ intrinsic ’ to literacy and as the source of its great potential . |
| 13 | She found him nice and easy to talk to , and they soon started seeing each other regularly . |
| 14 | Although institutions of higher education to some extent reshaped their admissions procedures before and after the Further & Higher Education Act 1992 , they still appear to pay little attention to the effect which their policies have on schools and colleges . |
| 15 | Of all the things they could have foreseen and prevented how could they possibly have foreseen this ? |
| 16 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 17 | Erm , I do n't know how they live , yet they always seemed to have enough money you know . |
| 18 | ‘ Why do they always have to throw that in ? |
| 19 | When they did run into each other on the borders of their territories , they usually tried to kill each other . |
| 20 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 21 | They also wished to achieve some redistribution of income in favour of families , particularly poor families . |
| 22 | A second meeting was held in mid-October [ see p. 37779-80 ] and a third in December [ see pp. 37918-19 ] , but they also failed to make any tangible progress . |
| 23 | They also hope to develop some kind of a synchronised timetable to provide five or six ships sailing at least every hour for 364 days a year . |
| 24 | In Chapters 1 and 2 we argue , however , that while the sociologies of the Chicago School , Goffman and Harré are all highly suggestive , they also tend to overlook some of the deeper social structures and processes in which individuals and small groups of people are necessarily caught up . |
| 25 | They also tend to have more of the male sex hormone testosterone in their blood : a hen can even be made to ascend its dominance hierarchy by injecting some of this hormone into her blood . |
| 26 | As for informal movements , they may be more creatively productive but they also tend to exclude those who are less confident or advantaged to begin with . |
| 27 | Not only did they make the move , but they also managed to negotiate some funding and an arrangement whereby their staff could continue to be trained on E&Y courses . |
| 28 | They also agreed to take more of the defence burden from the USA . |
| 29 | They also desired to emulate that other class for whom time and birth had provided legitimacy , and for whom wealth appeared as a natural attribute rather than a possibly transient accretion . |
| 30 | This indicates that the politics of local government do not just respond or react to the local environment , but crucially that they also help to mould this environment , and thus to a certain extent help to shape the local political agenda . |