Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some mountain farmers were looking more and more to tourism to provide the extra income necessary to allow them to continue living on their farms . |
| 2 | The lessons are reinforced by a booklet for the pupils and a separate leaflet for the parents which encourages them to discuss smoking with their children . |
| 3 | But suddenly reality was distorted and in her dream she was pulled to the ground and the two of them began digging at her chest with the rakes . |
| 4 | Because she knew she swelled and paled , in the grip of her look , she smiled even more and then invited them to start talking about their plans for their future home , which they did at once , and ceased to notice her . |
| 5 | I regard the whole idea of privatising the NHS as quite daft - impossible in a universal service offering the full range of service to every citizen of all ages and states of health without any of them having to pay for their medical treatment . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm bound to say that they failed to learn from their own history after nineteen-eighteen , so that they did in effect repeat erm their history a second time with disastrous consequences for everybody . |
| 7 | Patients will be interviewed after their consultation in order to find out whether they can give an accurate account of what their doctor intended them to do , and whether they have queries which they failed to raise during their consultation . |
| 8 | That had always been the plan and was not some presbyterian purge on behalf of the coaches Douglas Morgan and John Jeffrey in retribution for Scotland 's showing in the tournament , where , for the second successive week , they failed to qualify from their pool for the main competition and suffered a heavy defeat in the plate . |
| 9 | The callous crook got five years after milking two families of everything they owned to pay for his luxury life in a country mansion . |
| 10 | People like General Orde Wingate were training men , one of whom was David Patterson , one of our clergy , and Pop helped by writing a book on Burmese for them in case they got separated from their units . |
| 11 | that may mean that we meet a demoralized norwich team away on saturday — or — that they got boosted by their fine performance — ekoku was back after a long time injury for norwich . |
| 12 | And also one of the things we have done is we 've booked this erm Just The Job Exhibition , which we brought down from Liverpool , and it 's got fifty life-size images of black and Asian women , with erm a little bit on their experiences at work , how they managed to find jobs , how they got started in their careers , and we felt that would be erm an inspiration to women coming into Cowley Centre . |
| 13 | He finds that although the globular bodies of the histone molecules no longer contact the DNA of heavily transcribed genes , their charged tails still do , leading him to suggest that they remain tethered by their tails while the polymerase passes so that they can rapidly ‘ snap back ’ into their former structure . |
| 14 | Their manner of life and lack of learning were denounced by reformers ; but they lived according to their own customs and traditions , and there is little evidence that they were more commonly celibate , or less ignorant , in 1200 than in 1000 . |
| 15 | They admitted interfering with her gold teeth , but denied she was kept prisoner , made to sleep on the floor with only two sheets and kept without food . |
| 16 | He has authority to settle the dispute , for they agreed to abide by his decision . |
| 17 | They agreed to return to their barracks after the government undertook to pay them their January and February salaries . |
| 18 | ( They became known to his subjects , from their poor but different figures , as ‘ The Maypole ’ and ‘ The Elephant and Castle ’ . ) |
| 19 | My days revolved inevitably around bathtime , nappy changes , feeds and my ‘ mothers meetings ’ as they became known in our household . |
| 20 | At each stage of their return to the sea , they became specialised to their particular habitat , some going back into freshwater rivers , others frequenting shallow coastal waters or the deep oceans . |
| 21 | The second course ( to be held in the second term ) will require students to present for discussion and peer criticism the theoretical , methodological and empirical bases which they intend to use in their chosen field of enquiry . |
| 22 | At the moment they are prepared to work with the political parties in keeping up the momentum December generated , but it 's clear they intend to progress with their agenda whether or not the formal politicians continue to drag their feet . |
| 23 | Instead , they should refer to SCOTVEC 's criteria for approval of a centre when setting up their systems and should discuss the systems that they intend to implement with their systems verifier . |
| 24 | In general , if cells of vertebrate embryos are moved from one part to another of the early embryo they develop according to their new location and not from where they are taken . |
| 25 | What will they want to know about my home ? |
| 26 | What will they want to know about my health ? |
| 27 | They tend to see with their ears and accept things that they are told are acceptable , ’ he says . |
| 28 | It is characteristic of the metabolism of a cell that the relative amounts of the different substances remain roughly constant , and that if these proportions are altered by some outside disturbance , they tend to return to their initial values when the disturbance is removed . |
| 29 | They tend to rely on their parents to put up with the drudgery of queues and are only interested in capitalism and the rewards it can bring . |
| 30 | Do n't add an air diffuser , if you intend to grow Cabomba , as they tend to interfere with its growth . |