Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them became quite well known . |
| 2 | One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time . |
| 3 | Children whose parents set firm limits for them grow up better adjusted , with greater self-esteem , than those who are allowed to get away with behaving any way they like . |
| 4 | The act of dispensing with them has not always met with common assent nor has it always been smooth — the English historical landscape is scattered with periods of violence and upheaval — but once the dispensing process is achieved , it has largely been accepted . |
| 5 | ASK THEM TO FIND OUT HOW TO DO SOMETHING … find the area of a triangle … construct a 30 degree angle . |
| 6 | ASK THEM TO FIND OUT HOW TO DO SOMETHING find the area of a triangle . |
| 7 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 8 | This does not necessarily disprove the contention that TNCs exploit women workers in particular in the Third World , though it does modify the thesis to the extent that in some developing countries TNCs do provide some good jobs for women that help them to fulfil relatively freely chosen cultural needs . |
| 9 | Erm the way I understand the situation is Tony 's happy with er his arrangement and that the clubs have agreed and I think it 's just a matter of them going back now to report back to their President the Italian people and then the way I see it he 'll he 'll go after the er game for a medical and you know there should n't be any problems there . |
| 10 | But will the clubs , more especially the big clubs for whom the internationals play , ever agree to dance the union 's tune when every issue that comes up between them ends up simply coming between them ? |
| 11 | Trotting a bait down at the same depth you have seen them turning very often pays off with a fish or two . |
| 12 | The plants that rely on them to do so only open their flowers at night . |
| 13 | They got quite well known down there . |
| 14 | What matters are the collections , and they remain as poorly exhibited as ever . |
| 15 | Early in the eighteenth century they became more firmly subjected to Dzhungaria . |
| 16 | Fru Gertlinger , the young wife of the gardener at the Villa , recently become housekeeper , made them picnic lunches and every day they rode out early to check their notes and make sure that they had missed nothing . |
| 17 | With the profits from their books they made enough finally to buy Old Vicarage Farm , with four others , as an organic co-operative , in 1987 . |
| 18 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 19 | They spent billions of pounds on the nightmare of the poll tax , and millions of pounds were lost to the taxpayer when they sold off publicly owned assets at well below valuation . |
| 20 | They develop through well researched stages regardless of whether they are formal or informal . |
| 21 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 22 | It 's not all going according to plan , however , and most days they wind up literally singing for their supper . |
| 23 | Children assign distinct meanings to distinct forms , but the distinctions they make early on do not always coincide exactly with the conventional adult ones . |
| 24 | So they grow up just assuming that whites are the goodies and blacks are the bad dies and pass the same stereotypes onto their children . |
| 25 | There were crowds of people everywhere but , when they saw Burun 's banner , they moved politely aside to let the party pass . |
| 26 | While it may be bad news for the top two auctioneers it seems to many that Phillips and Bonhams will both benefit , for they appear much more prepared to accept lower value items for their sales . |
| 27 | Now they forget so fast do n't they ? |
| 28 | During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way . |
| 29 | Kathy and John Reynolds ( from Reynolds Brothers , Sydney , probably the largest machine knitting shop in Australia ) both told me that when the Kh900 arrived recently , they found out how to use it by opening the box and using the machine while reading the instruction book . |
| 30 | Under de Gaulle they opted almost unanimously to do so . |