Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There were crowds of people everywhere but , when they saw Burun 's banner , they moved politely aside to let the party pass . |
| 6 | During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way . |
| 7 | Under de Gaulle they opted almost unanimously to do so . |
| 8 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
| 9 | They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections ; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next . |
| 10 | They came forward again to shake hands and sympathise . |
| 11 | They arrived early enough to consume a vast spaghetti carbonara and a litre of house wine before the little Italian place became crowded . |
| 12 | They meet fairly often to play chess . ’ |
| 13 | After 1341 , however , the costs of war fell sharply from the levels they had reached between 1338 and 1341 , and not until the 1370s did they begin once again to approach those levels . |
| 14 | They dig deep especially to maintain the under-21 resources . |
| 15 | She marvels that they flow so easily to fill the vast space in which she moves . |
| 16 | By suggesting this they began quite unwittingly to undermine her confidence in the school and in herself . |
| 17 | Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back . |
| 18 | By some unspoken agreement they settled quietly together to watch the night fall and the heavy tide thunder in . |
| 19 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 20 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 21 | This is proved by a letter from one Mr. Wildhagen to Sir William le Fleming and dated the 19 October 1721 : " hellip ; your honr know it is impossible for the men to work att your Fells of Conistone in the winter season for long as their houses are unbuilt , they haveing so far to come and go to thir lodgings … |
| 22 | Because they said they 'd always done it and they had nowhere else to put it . |
| 23 | American blacks were always assimilationists because they had nowhere else to go . |
| 24 | They had nowhere else to go because this is closed and as they 've said you ca n't pay the mortgage on a single engine two seater aeroplane and you ca n't get rid of , to sell one of those things , there business in liquidation . |
| 25 | They come ashore there to breed . |
| 26 | They come together regularly to discuss standards of recruitment and recruits in the area , as well as the standards of the management committee members who are involved with them in the interviewing process . |
| 27 | Their subordination to adults in general is minimized by what might almost be called an avoidance of them : from the age of five or six , they return home only to eat and sleep , and spend the rest of their time in unsupervised gangs . |
| 28 | They have also yet to lose in the League , Millwall 's threat being thwarted by a dogged defence and a dollop of luck . |
| 29 | ‘ They say that they have nowhere else to go , but I know that facing the world on their own would be even more frightening . ’ |
| 30 | Steve says they have nowhere else to go . |