Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They have issued personal protection weapons to construction workers , yet most of them only face danger for the short-term duration of their contracts , ’ he said .
2 Yet if not all of them necessarily regarded Cnut with disfavour on his accession , it is likely that there were quarters in which he had to face considerable initial hostility .
3 Some ballets by them soon joined Beauty in the Covent Garden programmes , others were given by a newly formed second company at the Wells .
4 Loanable funds were not in total short supply , but the same growing and diversifying economy which could provide them also created competition from private borrowers and investors .
5 Some of them also gave tribute to the Yenisei Kirgiz from the Minusinsk Depression .
6 Index of model letters useful as a prop and exercises based on them also encourage creativity in letter writing .
7 Even in obeying ‘ Be aware ’ , the objects which with arousal of awareness draw me towards them also enhance awareness of themselves , the objects which repel also numb awareness of themselves .
8 of them also have income from occupational pensions .
9 Most of them later achieved fame in the investigation of Highland geology .
10 Some of them clearly formed part of the furnishing of principal rooms in Sir Robert Walpole 's house which was supervised by William Kent .
11 Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch .
12 If I turn my back , then some of them immediately start break-dancing round the room !
13 They thereby avoid commitment to any current fad that comes up on the whirligig of fashion .
14 Such figures as we have need careful scrutiny , because they rarely take account of those who came back .
15 Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy .
16 Males may spar and even fight when confined in a small aquarium without sufficient territory being available to the individuals , but they rarely cause trouble with other species .
17 The Schools Council 's early projects have been criticized in that they rarely took account of the context of the individual institutions where change was sought and ignored the fact that there was little consensus amongst teachers about the value of change anyway ( Becher and Maclure , 1978 ; Kelly , 1982 ; Richards , 1983 ; Cassidy , 1986 ) .
18 It is to the credit of such workers that they rarely feel animosity towards a member of the Royal Family who puts on a designer frock , gets into a chauffeur-driven car , spends a couple of hours meeting the afflicted and , as a result , has her picture on the front page of most national newspapers with the word caring prefacing every mention of her name .
19 Apart from the Heads of Units , they rarely have contact with other similar services .
20 They rarely meet opposition from the village militia , who have no training and not enough ammunition to put up a fight even if they wanted to .
21 After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night .
22 And they only get advantage of getting
23 They only make love on the twenty-ninth of February , ’ said Hyacinth , ‘ and then only when it rains . ’
24 These butts are pre-dyed , but I was curious as to why they only had colour on one side .
25 Well they only started tarmacadam in nineteen thirty six .
26 The taps at Chacombe House have now all been fixed so they only produce water at less than forty-three degrees centigrade .
27 This time round they were told they would not be able to enter the National Federation of Meat Traders bi-annual sausage competition at Harrogate as one of the sponsors , the Meat and Livestock Commission , held that they only provided sponsorship for mainland competitors .
28 And I will go on stressing that because traditional musicians have this traditional training in university music departments and music colleges , and they become isolated ; they only have contact with Western Art Music , you know .
29 er they only pay sort of one and a half or twice that 's the , that 's the purpose of the Tories
30 They rightly want input into what their children are taught .
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