Example sentences of "they [verb] [pos pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 2 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 3 | The growing Country opposition to William 's ministry in the Scottish Parliament consisted mainly of men who stood on a Revolution and Presbyterian foot , but whose exclusion from office exacerbated their disillusionment and allowed them to indulge their nationalist sentiments . |
| 4 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 5 | Dark gull-like seabirds , called Jaegers in North America , noted for their piratical methods of feeding , by pursuing other seabirds , especially gulls and terns , to make them disgorge their last catch . |
| 6 | But it can stop them seeing its underlying gender biases . |
| 7 | Some in the colony 's business community share that view since following it in policy terms would allow them to continue their prosperous trade links across the border . |
| 8 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 9 | By trying different sheets and pushing them to perform your working requirements , you will find your favourite papers in time . |
| 10 | To enable them to conduct their private practice economically and sensibly from their viewpoint , pay beds were an imperative . |
| 11 | As I detest midges more than most things in life , leaving them to enjoy their open season for humans is no hardship either . |
| 12 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 13 | Finally , functional elites may be offered incorporation within the policy process in order to compel them to sacrifice their organizational muscle , and to undertake the state 's dirty work by disciplining dissidents within their organizations . |
| 14 | Firms are less likely to set profit-maximising prices for their products when faced with rising raw material prices and labour costs as it is more difficult for them to estimate their expected revenues and costs . |
| 15 | At the East 15 Drama School I have taken audition technique sessions , which was all fine and large but I encouraged them to write their own material as well as having stock pieces to do . |
| 16 | The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture . |
| 17 | The free Church Council , special emergencies apart , will therefore best serve the administration of its city or town , neither by meddlesome interference with it , nor by attempting to be represented as such in its political caucuses , or even on its administrative boards ; but by training men who , representing its views and coming under its influence , have at once the strength of character and the breadth of conception , which will cause them to secure its great ends … in the ordinary arena of public life . |
| 18 | Throughout human history , disabled people have constantly confounded the low expectations of others , and how much better it would be for special educators to raise the expectations of disabled children and their families by giving them an understanding of this , by helping them to accept their disabled identities with pride , by helping them to understand their place in the world and their rights as well as giving them the practical skills to deal with these issues . |
| 19 | Politicians are wary of doing this , of course , because it forces them to accept their proper share of responsibility for the present state of anomie . |
| 20 | Two aspects need consideration : the tendency of workers to lessen their weekly amount of work at times when higher money wages or lower food prices allowed them to meet their customary expectation of comfort from fewer hours of labour , and secondly , the ability of home-based out-workers to control their own pace of work , compensating , if they so chose , for a slack early week with a bout of late-week intensity . |
| 21 | Separate households might briefly establish a privileged position within the commune and rent land from the nobility on their own behalf , but it remained extremely difficult for them to consolidate their scattered strips of land or to introduce new methods and seeds . |
| 22 | The performance of Castlereagh must attract the envy of many councils and ratepayers alike but I wonder how many of them realise its hidden costs ? |
| 23 | Most of them retained their medieval walls and intricate street patterns and they often served as ecclesiastical or secular centres of administration , but their major role was to act as retail , handicraft and distribution points for wide hinterlands . |
| 24 | In addition , the aerobic activity helped them to increase their metabolic rate which is , after all , what every slimmer needs . |
| 25 | Hoomey achieved his quarter of a width , Jazz did two lengths , Bean three and Gary seven , and Mr Foggerty bought them all a coke each , reminding himself to put it down on expenses , and left them to catch their various buses . |
| 26 | But as many as are thus sottish , let them enjoy their own wildness and ignorance , it is sufficient for a good man that he is conscious unto himself that he is more nobly descended , better bred and born , and more skilfully taught by the purged faculties of his own mind.2 |
| 27 | There are endless obstacles to romance , in the shape of their teenage children , ex-lovers and Charlie 's ex-wife , all of whom pitch in to make them doubt their true feelings . |
| 28 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 29 | Still the point was well made , I mean not sounding like you can sort of freeze an article to , not compromise the sort of committee , I mean , it is , dead if you give it away and you would n't consider pressure groups , they 'll pick up their report and their copies anywhere , and take bits out and quote you , I mean , I mean I know I 'm in this , I like to distort , like them to know our official disposition before it 's dead . |
| 30 | Each interview was with a single-sex group of girls or boys , and I began by asking them to choose their favourite character or person on TV and tell me a bit about them . |