Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , the payment entitled them to go on receiving food-subsidy coupons from the team , even though they were no longer working for it . |
| 2 | They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment . |
| 3 | You would expect them to carry on doing that . |
| 4 | They grow up to respect both sets of kinfolk . |
| 5 | Lukoff and Whiteman ( 1960 ) found that blind pupils make blind friends when they have the opportunity to do so , and it may be that they need as they grow up to have some shared experience with children and young people who face similar challenges . |
| 6 | They moved on to see some fellows working on a lovely Galway hooker raised on sleepers at the waterside , then crossed to a quiet little bar and had some Beamishes . |
| 7 | They paddled out carrying some kedges for craft that would then tow themselves off to these anchors , and with nothing more to be done on Z Red beach they paddled round to Z Green . |
| 8 | They came over to meet some people and they seemed to be interested . |
| 9 | And then erm , then they had this thing called Niff , which was water , and they came round spraying all of us . |
| 10 | Well , Oxford United were trailing by three goals to nil at half time , they came back to draw three three . |
| 11 | They fanned out to make two webs of silvery trails that extended far above and below the lines of sight afforded by the shuttle 's windows . |
| 12 | They barge around upsetting other , nervous horses and young riders . |
| 13 | They set out to make sweeping historical epics but all they can come up with are mini-series with no ad breaks . |
| 14 | Both founders came from publishing backgrounds ( she from Collins and he from Michael Bond 's Paddington & Company ) , and they set out to develop new market niches , through licensing book related characters and properties — such as Beatrix Potter 's Peter Rabbit , Michael Bond 's Paddington Bear and Jill Barklem 's Brambly Hedge — and through widening the merchandise beyond toys , particularly into the gift trade . |
| 15 | Originating from the northern part of County Antrim in Ireland , anciently known as Dalriada , they set about establishing another Dalriada in Argyll and the nearer islands , including Iona . |
| 16 | They set off to raid each other on the same night , but passed somehow in the darkness . |
| 17 | Yeah , and cos we had , we had the bathroom that was originally there , that they knocked through to build all this extension , was converted into a shower room , and she did n't think that the sink was right in that , and the disabled bathroom had at least two or three pieces that she thought bolshie in that as well , |
| 18 | But of course the users do n't know what they want , so they end up getting another duff system . |
| 19 | No , in the barn , 'cos they went yesterday morning , and er , they end up sleeping last night , due back today |
| 20 | Do they go on to buy other stock , or do they sell quickly for a swift profit ? |
| 21 | Bad in n it when they go round giving these areas for people . |
| 22 | But they go on to represent these examples as limited qualifications to their general thesis and to argue that nevertheless ‘ literacy fosters the specialisation of the logical functions of language resulting in a focus on sentence meaning per se ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 23 | Many have made only one short field trip and yet they go on using that material in articles and even books for the rest of their lives . |
| 24 | And indeed er the Association of er Chartered er er the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants wrote to me recently er asking exactly what the position is and I quote from the letter , they say firms of accountants are quite likely to be engaged by the same client to perform services other than a statutory audit and then they go on to list financial planning and so on . |
| 25 | That framework shapes the broad conditions in which they operate and more specifically lays down both what is expected of them and under what circumstances and with what resources they go about achieving those goals . |
| 26 | They keep on getting extra wages every year for doing nothing ! |
| 27 | When when people table they keep on potting thirty thirty all the time |
| 28 | And if they keep on coming first past the post … they 'll be queuing one hundred deep for a place in the winners enclosure with their very own favourite |
| 29 | Why they keep on making new bulbs ? |
| 30 | If they went on seeing each other , would they not eventually produce the same complicatedly beautiful pattern of commitment as her friends had ? |