Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them hardly seem to know one end of a horse from another . |
| 2 | The carriage had hardly halted in the Rectory drive before the door was torn open and the children came tumbling out with Mrs Chamberlin behind them vainly trying to exert some sort of control . |
| 3 | But economic and commercial policy are also bedrock attributes of the nation state , and the members of the Community have long transferred commercial policy to the Community , while most of them clearly intend to transfer monetary policy to the Community as well . |
| 4 | When people are used to , say , £1 of their limited housekeeping money going each Friday to nice Mr Jones when he calls , it must be very difficult for them even to consider diverting that money into a different spending channel which would instead involve them — rather than Mr Jones — in all the work of paying it in . |
| 5 | Two male friends dressed in drag appear , possibly as twin brides , preferably in long dresses or other outfits that keep them well covered to prevent any incidents among their own group or from outsiders . |
| 6 | They badly need to re-establish some credibility , after Warrington , and even they have found it hard to say ‘ no ’ to such a public appeal , from such an unique individual . |
| 7 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 8 | They only managed to convert one of them , when Shaun Taylor found the time and space in a crowded penalty area to knock home the equaliser . |
| 9 | They only had to miss half a dozen meals and they started to complain . |
| 10 | Families who 'll be watching to see what changes are made say they only want to make sure further tragedies are avoided . |
| 11 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 12 | And what the difference is that er , we thought that you could have one young person per district and that they only have to pay thirty two pounds each , but I think these are only purely |
| 13 | There 's even a class for mini dogs … they have to be under fifteen inches tall for this competition … but at least they only have to clear fifteen inch hurdles.Dog agility is this country 's fastest growing canine sport , and many of the eight hundred dogs at Malvern have taken part in events all over Britain.But this is the biggest ever : |
| 14 | That , that well helps the er poor people , cos a lot of the poor people do n't near enough pay tax now because if they do they only have to pay twenty P |
| 15 | They perhaps had to give two books up . |
| 16 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 17 | Staff , on the other hand , felt that they constantly tried to do this , both through formal mechanisms , like the initial meeting , nursery booklet , parents ' nights , and also informally , through chat . |
| 18 | I 've known very independent career women who 'd do anything to reach the top , but when they have a baby they suddenly decide to take two years out . |
| 19 | The only guy who goes his own way is Abede Pele , the Ghanaian who they just let roam free . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean they put out they 're into free fucking but really they just want to get hitched ? ’ |
| 21 | and absorbing it and er they just want to make sure |
| 22 | They just started getting mad with her and chucking wooden dice that size at her , trying to hit her , and blackboard rubbers , smashing up the lightbulbs and everything , and in the end she just went in the store-cupboard , crying , so we locked her in . ’ |
| 23 | They just wanted to redress some glaring injustices in their terms of employment . |
| 24 | making up and they just start hitting each other and that ! |
| 25 | Despite their recognition that even the model example of Greek literacy was not always ‘ unambiguous ’ , explicit and easy , they nevertheless tend to represent these qualities as ‘ intrinsic ’ to literacy and as the source of its great potential . |
| 26 | A further consequence of enterprise-based unions is that , although they permit a high degree of rank-and-file participation in decision-making , they nevertheless fail to organise large proportions of workers in smaller firms where unionism is discouraged by paternalistic employment relationships . |
| 27 | Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early . |
| 28 | Flattered for a little while , they soon begin to feel embarrassed or threatened by the powerful nature of the feeling that surrounds them . |
| 29 | She found him nice and easy to talk to , and they soon started seeing each other regularly . |
| 30 | They still expected to get cheap baked beans , but would pay over the odds for high-quality fresh food . |