Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have to be understood , however , that such a procedure would place constraints on litigants , ’ a paper from the working party warns , ‘ by obliging them to proceed more quickly than they might wish and forego the examination of some or all of the issues in a case by oral evidence . ’ |
| 2 | They were not so much intelligent as shrewd — their organizational sense enabled them to sniff out the golden chance and grasp it firmly , it enabled them to strain forward rather than stand back waiting passively to be asked . |
| 3 | Policy is for politicians , but if a tax proposal is administratively unworkable , then we should let them know sooner rather than later . |
| 4 | But Mr Aimetti believes that it is easy enough to get them to work together successfully if they share a common technical language , in accounting , for example . |
| 5 | Francis added : ‘ I 'm all in favour of lots of goals , but I like to see them created properly rather than artificially . |
| 6 | I thought you 'd want them to know as soon as possible . ’ |
| 7 | They went back to the Franz Joseph together — she liked everyone to see them walking off together when the performance was over . |
| 8 | In fact some of them kill even better than they die . |
| 9 | If there are any medical reports to do , we 'll get them done as soon as possible but you know , a is that 's very much out of our hands , and |
| 10 | No one would accuse the Americans of being frightened of the new , or the Indians of refusing to show emotion , or of inability to communicate , but all need to work in an environment which encourages them to give of their best , and encourages them to look outwards rather than inwards . |
| 11 | ‘ The other mums are always talking about what their children eat and most of them seem as just as confused as I am . ’ |
| 12 | Having considered two cases ( one of them going back more than 25 years ) , it upheld verdicts in lower courts and ruled that in view of the complex scientific issues involved , the government was best placed to decide on sites and to assess their environmental impact . |
| 13 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 14 | They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path . |
| 15 | They have not won away for 24 games since they clinched the 1992 title , and there was never any prospect of them doing so yesterday once Ian Rush had struck after 24 minutes . |
| 16 | There were no recognised Departments of Education offering a full initial teaching qualification in any community language ( other than English or Welsh ) at the time of the LITE survey : bilingual school leavers with the determination to promote their language in the British school system could perhaps take a degree by treating their home language as a foreign language where such courses existed , but the available Postgraduate Certificate in Education ( PGCE ) courses could allow them to qualify fully only if they selected a main teaching subject other than their chosen language . |
| 17 | Let them hate so long as they fear . |
| 18 | Thousands of them looked down now as something round and shiny drifted around the Earth . |
| 19 | I have circulated the request to the various Regional Council service departments asking them to respond not later than 18 December 1992 . |
| 20 | For a long time they clung together so until , with a haggard shaking of her head , Emilia freed herself from the embrace , struggled for , and found , a measure of composure . |
| 21 | They got away earlier than usual , and the river is suitable for a fairly fast run . ’ |
| 22 | They said they would send it , they got so far as taking her address , but she changed her mind , she wanted to wear it that night . |
| 23 | They got as far as Eldinhope at the head of St Mary 's Loch before the early November dark made following the tracks of even five hundred difficult ; and the Regent and Ramsay spent the night in that remote peel-tower of a Scott laird . |
| 24 | They got as far as ‘ I 'm a Forrester , I score for Leeds , I hate Man U and I hate Chel-sea ’ , plus the line ‘ I put on women 's clothing , like Eric Cantona ’ . |
| 25 | They lived there just before I was born . |
| 26 | They lived as cheaply as possible , permanently on the brink of destitution , and were often withdrawn , self-isolating personalities with few friends and no contact with their families . |
| 27 | Formulaic expressions such as ‘ Once upon a time … and they lived happily ever after ’ can be used explicitly to mark the boundaries of a fragment . |
| 28 | They rode steadily downwards until it was grass under their steeds ’ hoofs instead of rock , and there were trees and calm rivers meandering in the dips of hills . |
| 29 | They are conspicuous for their conciliatory terms : although they insist as firmly as ever on the prohibition of lay investiture , they make no mention of homage . |
| 30 | In a combative interview with Empire Magazine he declared : ‘ Black people make up 20 per cent of the population of the US but they make up more than 95 per cent of what 's interesting and hip . ’ |