Example sentences of "they [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 2 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 3 | You will find them listed in the Yellow Pages . |
| 4 | Many health policies in Third World countries are based on at least the vocabulary of this approach though the political climate does not always encourage such radical rethinking of health care nor does the training of most health workers prepare them to work in the new ways implied in the PHC philosophy . |
| 5 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 6 | They might have them frozen in the frozen bit , frozen gateaux and stuff |
| 7 | Some of them appear in the above list , for a hard line can not be drawn . |
| 8 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 9 | Galleys took some small part in the indecisive battle of Cape Matapan between the Turkish and Venetian fleets in 1717 ; but apart from the large fleets of them maintained in the Baltic by Russia and Sweden they had become obsolete long before the end of this period . |
| 10 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 11 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 12 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 13 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 14 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 15 | There are 200 species of primate , 90 per cent of them living in the tropical rainforests of Asia , Africa and South and Central America . |
| 16 | Many have good sight , but there are a few forms which have lost their eyes , some of them living in the lightless world of caves . |
| 17 | An ordinary freedom-fighter or revolutionary — and there were a great many of them operating in the Holy Land at the time — might well have won popular support for his actions , but could not have been acclaimed as the Messiah . |
| 18 | How far anyone is convinced by them depends in the last resort on the themes of the last two chapters — on imagination and experience . |
| 19 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 20 | Once into the trees , they lost sight of the sun and the sky and had to rely on the compass to keep them heading in the right direction . |
| 21 | It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | I think there 's no doubt at all that erm from a Conservative point of view I actually believe that schools , under their heads , know best , and I am quite happy to trust schools with a budget of money which will enable them to buy in the specific needs that their school requires . |
| 23 | The great public buildings were stuccoed with gypsum to make them dazzle in the bright sea-light . |
| 24 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
| 25 | This was a book of fables , most of them pointing in the inevitable direction ; the title story told , with some charm , of a little boy who saw from a hillside while out walking a house whose windows were all of gold . |
| 26 | Since then I have always followed the fortunes of Preston and am saddened to see them languishing in the lower divisions . |
| 27 | ‘ He refused to let them return in the New Year to London , ’ she said . |
| 28 | He could see them grazing in the next field , further up the slope . |
| 29 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 30 | Some 15 million of them served in the armed forces , over 11 million going overseas ; and it is estimated that another 15 million moved from their homes , mainly in the smaller towns and the rural areas , to the booming sites of the war industries , such as those in California . |