Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither of them seems to have read any work of Latin poetry , though at least Polybius must have become fluent in the language : even their direct use of Latin historians is doubtful . |
| 2 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 3 | They agreed to try to express any feelings of animosity at an early stage , rather than harbouring them until they exploded . |
| 4 | The pessimistic thing was , the Hobbesians always looked back to the past , some golden age of order in the past , you know , when , when people knew what to do and er , and er , things were right as it were , and th they tend to want to restore some ideal state of order and authority that existed in the past , which was much better than now , because civilization has gone to the dogs , and been corrupted and so on . |
| 5 | Occasionally they appear to have had some direct influence on the formulation of the documents — the particular mention of the Anglican communion in the decree on ecumenism for example , as of the ‘ hierarchy of truths ’ — and their advice was sought , at least by the Unity Secretariat ( whose guest they were ) on religious freedom . |
| 6 | — It 's no' as easy as they say to find work these days , even down there . |
| 7 | They seemed to have brought another world into the shop . |
| 8 | She grinned , recalling how they seemed to have spent most of the night making love — time and again . |
| 9 | Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma . |
| 10 | They 'd gone to see another hill , which had been a Roman fort , covered in ferns now . |
| 11 | And then the timekeeper could mark down that they were present , they 'd gone to work that day you see ? |
| 12 | They fell into step , heading for the pub where they 'd arranged to meet some of the other girls prior to going on to the dance . |
| 13 | And you see all the beams are chamfered , not so much for decoration but because they seem to have done that according to latest research , done that to take the bark off because it was the bark where the parasites tended to get in . |
| 14 | I have seen away supporters being chased up the road into Pleck Park and but erm I think basically a lot of the trouble used to be caused by drink and now they do n't have any drink in the ground they er they , they seem to have cracked that one . |
| 15 | They seem to have dismantled all of the cushions . |
| 16 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll adjust the curtains — they seem to have got all rucked up , ’ she said . |
| 18 | ‘ Once they have decided that they are committed to one man , they seem to want to acknowledge this publicly and to receive public approval in return . |
| 19 | How are they going to manage to implement this without making the situation any worse ! |
| 20 | Because some physicians regard IBS as a diagnosis of exclusion they feel compelled to exclude all organic disease . |
| 21 | Because they spent their year off teaching children in a nursery school , or working in a home for mentally handicapped people , and they discovered a new area of interest to which they can relate , and they become motivated to read that subject . |
| 22 | The Girls slept in cubicles with others , which seemed strange at first but the fun they generated helped to overcome any homesickness . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the Engineering Council ran into trouble with the fact that they did want to put some penal clauses in whereby engineers were responsible for a lot of their actions . |
| 24 | You need to get that , need to keep that down because if you do go to the hospital , and they did decide to take that out , they would ne d they would check your blood pressure and they would chase you . |
| 25 | CAPENHURST anglers did n't hook any whoppers , but they did manage to net enough tiddlers to ensure that the scales tipped in their favour in a challenge match against the Greyhound Angling Club from Chester . |
| 26 | I suppose they get on reasonably well , but they do tend to rub each other up . |
| 27 | But we 've just got to wait and see , I mean , I know the sort of questions they 're going to ask , and they do deserve to hear some answers , I promise you that Jane . |
| 28 | For , as the report went on to show , the problem is not that manufacturers employ too few people , but that the few people whom they do employ produce much less than their counterparts elsewhere in the world . |
| 29 | The one where the fence comes they 've asked to fence this end , it 's that , those thin bits over |
| 30 | And whether the wheel is turning too fast for them to cope with it somewhere along the line they 've lost control any and there 's still I 'm told young many a time a good shop steward and a good management should be a good team together , but erm unless they can work in harmony you know it 's no good . |