Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 2 | We had owned the Sumatras for just a few months , but already we had seen that they are volatile and eccentric birds , much given to sudden screech-ups and bouts of cackling , which in other chickens would denote the arrival of an egg , but from them seem to signify only that they have given themselves a fright . |
| 3 | At least you keep in touch , some of them get shoved away and they never , nobody do n't bother with them do they ? |
| 4 | ‘ I suspect a lot of them get carried away and think because they have just passed their test they are great drivers . |
| 5 | You encourage them to turn to romance rather than face reality . |
| 6 | They failed to do so and the chance of forcing a negotiated peace was lost . |
| 7 | It was when they got excited earlier that our boys took a hand . ’ |
| 8 | Well , they thought they were superior because their trade was classified Grade I and Met was only Grade 2 , so they got paid more than I did and considered they were a cut above me in every way . |
| 9 | One night there was a little backdrop of a painted garden , and in front of it two new boys were doing a strip routine to the original ‘ Let's Stay Together ’ ; but then they got carried away and ended up just leaning against the wall together , leaning up against the painted flowerbeds and the little painted bridge , just kissing and making love right there , for at least forty minutes , nobody minded . |
| 10 | Where goods are not durable , the mischief lies not in the fact that they ceased to perform adequately but rather that , at the date of supply , they did not have the capacity to endure . |
| 11 | Instead they agreed to stay together but would not sleep with each other . |
| 12 | It was a matter of very small beginnings for everybody , and then as the pictures that they made became more and more popular , more and more acceptable , used not merely in fairgrounds or in odd corners of shops and this sort of thing , for the odd fifteen minutes or twenty minutes of movie , but entered into the music halls , became one of the acts in the music hall entertainment erm this really was the foundation of a new industry , a new industry of entertainment , a new industry of information . |
| 13 | Some individuals have no worries ; they have planned the event for years , made maximum pension contributions , carefully invested their savings , covered themselves and family in insurance policies , budgeted ahead and can even gleefully tell you about the exotic round-the-world trip they intend to take just as soon as their new life begins . |
| 14 | What we do n't know is what they intend to do now that they are here . |
| 15 | they tend to drift away when they get to the last year anyway , you know ? |
| 16 | They tend to aggravate rather than improve the poor self-esteem , poor individual coping skills and poor emotional maturity in the primary sufferer . |
| 17 | They tend to work effectively when a balance of roles is present in their composition . |
| 18 | I find the dried cocoa bean husks useful as a mulch since they tend to bind together when wet , producing a surface mat that inhibits weed growth and evaporation while still allowing water and air to reach the soil . |
| 19 | An important feature of such costs is that they tend to increase rather than decrease with sales volume . |
| 20 | Possibly resulting from low-temperature adaptations , they tend to grow seasonally and overall more slowly , take longer to mature , and produce fewer , larger eggs ( Everson , 1987 ) . |
| 21 | Talking audio visual that 's an event that is taking place with S S K in Glasgow on the second of February I 'm disappointed by the number of people who have said that they want to go largely because we 've gone out of our way to do something in Glasgow |
| 22 | They know they want to come here when they apply |
| 23 | The Second Division club fear they will be allotted 17,800 tickets if Liverpool overcome Portsmouth at Villa Park , though they expect to receive more if Portsmouth reach the final . |
| 24 | They appear to survive simply because they are businesses , and it is their commercial structure alone which keeps them alive . |
| 25 | They seek to come here because it is a nice place . |
| 26 | Any closer , and they stop peeking altogether and watch the cat closely . |
| 27 | She only mentioned one place after they 'd gone underground and that was where Gustav got married : Sangerhausen . |
| 28 | When they 'd covered more or less everything and it was time for her to go , Angelica walked with her to the main door . |
| 29 | Shelves lined the walls on which stood magical pots — organic , looking as if they 'd grown rather than been made , with the colours of the trees , the earth and the sea merging in the glaze . |
| 30 | They 'd cruised past when they arrived that afternoon , just after four o'clock , and seen Tommy standing on the doorstep . |