Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them needed to spell out the fact that the ‘ he ’ they were talking about was Cashman . |
| 2 | The cast , all in full costume , are standing near their initial cue points , eyes riveted on one man , the sweep of whose arm will tell them to start acting out the next episode of Doctor Who . |
| 3 | ‘ And you are both ready for the bazaar , I see , ’ he said , for he had already watched them carry through the packing-cases filled with their work , ready to be transported on Mr Hanson the grocer 's small cart , due to call at Vetch Street at ten o'clock , for them to start setting out the stall . |
| 4 | He 'd met Elaine on several trips around the island which Christina had arranged , including a hilarious afternoon when the three of them decided to try out the hotel 's water sports and attempted to learn to water-ski after too many rum sours at the Reef Bar . |
| 5 | In practice , as we have seen , it is British policy to subsidise the polluting farmers rather than make them pay to clean up the pollution . ) |
| 6 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 7 | Furthermore , they agreed to buy back the land at the purchase price should the venture fail . |
| 8 | And when they had seen it they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning the child . |
| 9 | Armed with their newest inventions ( a super-duper jeep and hi-tech helicopter ) they vow to take on the forces of evil and blast their way to freedom — so get blasting ! |
| 10 | They intend to keep up the pressure , because I understand that the player can be lured to Old Trafford . |
| 11 | Even where migrants do join in , they tend to alter completely the nature of the events . |
| 12 | Before I left the Lock and I was on nights the sirens went one night and this was before they stopped going down the shelter we went down the air raid shelter that is , now , is the cellar to the club at Bloxwich Lock 's club ! |
| 13 | I remember when I was out on the road , I had a particular connection with , we had a motor bike policy , and it was an appalling risk , and it came up for renewal , and er , nobody had take it round the market , and I mean , that that was an idol threat , because nobody in their right mind would want this particular motor and we said , well not if they want to jack up the premium on it , they wanted to jack it up by about thirty or forty per cent , and and the broker was not very happy about this . |
| 14 | how they want to see how the English word is spoken in the nineteen nineties . |
| 15 | There is a need to help those who are lonely to feel sufficiently secure in themselves , and sufficiently still a part of life that they want to keep up the struggle to go on coping ( see case study 4:1 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ They want to bring down the Chancellor and thereby to undermine the Prime Minister himself , ’ he said . |
| 17 | ‘ They want to bring back the tsar . ’ |
| 18 | A group of squatters evicted from health authority land two years ago say they want to know why the site has remained empty ever since . |
| 19 | Plus they want to know how the branches is gon na operate . |
| 20 | Do different they want to know how the English language is spoken and that . |
| 21 | He did n't know why he kept them really , except that they helped to make up the number on the shelves . |
| 22 | The fingerboard is ebony , with exquisite maple leaf inlays lacking nothing in detail as they appear to drift down the neck towards the body . |
| 23 | They propose to take away the courts ' most important sanction — the power to take over a union 's assets . |
| 24 | In Nicosia 's Eoka museum , pictures of British troops when they tried to fight off the separatists . |
| 25 | At first , they tried to pull off the dogs with their hands and then used their truncheons . |
| 26 | Then they tried to bring in the general . ’ |
| 27 | Gradually they hope to strip away the disguises and help both partners to understand themselves and each other better and recognize the ways in which they interact . |
| 28 | They seemed to know when the tragedy of the previous night had occurred , and had maybe come to the theatre in such numbers in the vague hope that they might get a repeat showing . |
| 29 | She pulled away and walked ahead of him along the corridor , hearing the measured tread of his footsteps as he followed , and to her over-sensitive ears they seemed to match exactly the pounding , thudding beat of her heart . |
| 30 | And then there Further up the glen from me , from our , house there 's a place called Dalnasnecht It 's a little place in the beside the water and beyond it there 's a great piece of ground on the hill and it was called er Argyll 's Reed where Argy Where all Where Argyll 's men stayed when they came to burn down the bonny house early , Forter Castle . |