Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned . |
| 2 | They were friends and they expected never to see each other again . |
| 3 | Welcoming " the important changes " in South Africa in the previous 20 months , they agreed unanimously to lift some sanctions immediately . |
| 4 | They fought frantically to hold each other close , but the oil defeated them . |
| 5 | They 'd both had little enough the previous night . |
| 6 | Maybe a coincidence , maybe the two girls talked on the phone , decided they 'd both had enough . |
| 7 | And then , when I know what I 'm doing , I thought that they 'd just had that . |
| 8 | They 'd just sunk that pit and they were starting to turn coal and the the the miners were straggling back to the new pit you see ? |
| 9 | Although they 'd probably covered that . ’ |
| 10 | Today they 'd only increased that to forty-six per cent . |
| 11 | They 'd all noticed that . ’ |
| 12 | Oh yes , they 'd all heard that . |
| 13 | Later in the interview , people were asked whether they 'd ever had any kind of problem or difficulty over any credit arrangements . |
| 14 | Mm , see they , they 'd actually approached all this , they 've approached it have n't they ? |
| 15 | They 'd definitely sounded that way on the comm — and there was another hint about their nature in the fact that they were too withdrawn to make a visual link . |
| 16 | Well me parents they got they was alright they , you know what I mean , they were n't wealthy but they they they were they 'd always got enough to live on . |
| 17 | they cope , I mean as far as they were concerned , as far as they were concerned they 'd never seen such , the crematorium was packed , the people was all lined outside |
| 18 | They 'd never done that to her before , never threatened to take her ship away . |
| 19 | Heaven knew she was no stranger to men 's admiring glances , but they 'd never had this effect on her before — nor anything remotely like it ! |
| 20 | If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great . |
| 21 | If the child has a special skill or the parent has a special interest and they enjoy together exchanging this skill or interest , like teaching a child to swim very young , teaching it to play or listen to music , or play very simple rhythmic sounds , then as long as it is done within a relationship that is , above all , a loving relationship , great . |
| 22 | England 's second place is slightly surprising , as they seem either to win all their matches ( as in two series against Richards 's men ) or lose them all ( as in 4–0 against Australia last winter ) . |
| 23 | While pledging themselves publicly to legislation , they worked privately to block many of the attempts to secure new acts and statutes . |
| 24 | And the drop-outs enjoying the lovely warm season , when asked why they stay there said this was the reason . |
| 25 | I mean when our researchers were doing our London Guide for nineteen ninety one , they did actually make that point that erm they reckoned that things were overpriced in London . |
| 26 | Last last time I was er resting was er about sixteen months ago and er I actually applied and got pretty far down the line er for a position within Woolworths only to find that er when they stated that they wanted people between the ages of twenty eight and thirty five they did actually mean that . |
| 27 | All that mattered to these people was to kill ; how they did so had little significance . |
| 28 | It is interesting to find that they have somewhat unusual morphological forms , which may suggest that they do indeed make some sort of special call on speakers ' capacity for linguistic construction . |
| 29 | It is appears to be accepted in principle by Selby in paragraph two point eight of their submission , that they do actually accept this approach . |
| 30 | They do actually call that |