Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 2 | He grasped the little man 's arms desperately and they lay looking into each other 's faces . |
| 3 | The story of how the defenders withstood the might of Cromwell 's army , of how the Honours were smuggled out from the castle under the very noses of the English and hidden beneath the floor of nearby Kineff Kirk , and of how they lay buried for eight long years until returned once more to Edinburgh Castle , is one of the most well known , oft-repeated tales of Scottish history . |
| 4 | As always they lay exhausted in each other 's arms , their sated bodies languid and limp , Fernando soothing her fevered brow with tender kisses of love . |
| 5 | From four hundred members they expected to rise to hundreds of thousands in the coming ‘ death agony of capitalism ’ . |
| 6 | They 've got problems with erm staffing because they got rid of all their staff |
| 7 | Well they got rid of all those it 's the just cottages I saw round the back . |
| 8 | In the thirteenth century they got rid of old restrictions which fettered the freedom of alienation in the interest of lords or heirs . |
| 9 | They got rid of electronic monitoring equipment , including TV cameras and recorders , by complaining that these interfered with their powers and caused headaches . |
| 10 | They remain shut to this day . |
| 11 | Three countries — Denmark , Ireland and Belgium — meanwhile indicated yesterday that they remain opposed to another key element , which forsees the abolition of all limits on tax-paid goods that can be carried across borders by private travellers . |
| 12 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 13 | INSET courses are normally conceived for practising teachers who require refresher courses from time to time : when unqualified teachers take part in them , they remain classed as untrained teachers by the end of their course . |
| 14 | Although the Tories plan to reduce manpower by an average of 20pc across the three services they remain committed to several important new orders . |
| 15 | They agreed to meet for three or four sessions , after which a session would be held with her parents in order to assess progress and to help Pamela further improve her communication with them . |
| 16 | They agreed to meet at ten-thirty the following day at the Archdeaconry . |
| 17 | She had n't , and they agreed to meet at seven . |
| 18 | I can recall a class of ten-year-olds designing their own Norman village for several drama sessions before they became engaged in non-projected drama activity ( personal play , as Peter Slade calls it ) , i.e. before they started interacting with each other as villagers instead of through their designs . |
| 19 | They became involved after some of the cult 's former members attempted suicide . |
| 20 | The more media permeated life from 1945 to 1990 , and the more they became concentrated in international conglomerates , the more important the accountability of media themselves became . |
| 21 | These broad silver coins were first minted under his orders and they became known as Giulii for that reason . |
| 22 | They were joined by Southey , and for some years by Samuel Taylor Coleridge , and these ‘ Lake Poets ’ , as they became known after 1817 , make the Lakes a totally acceptable place . |
| 23 | Alternatively , they lost so much money so frequently on them that they became disillusioned with all options and by proxy any other financial instruments . |
| 24 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 25 | Estate agents will now have to give consumers more information , with specific requirements to write to clients informing them of services they intend to offer to prospective purchasers , and to explain in writing terms such as ‘ sole agency ’ , ‘ ready , willing and able ’ , and ‘ sole selling rights ’ . |
| 26 | The prison authorities see this flexibility as the principal benefit both for the deliverer and the candidate and they intend to build on this in future . |
| 27 | Users should provide their own benchmarks , preferably an emulation of the sort of application they intend to run with comparable workload . |
| 28 | Do they want to plan for organic change or reap the fruit of a retail giant that might , no matter what the quality of the architecture , be redundant in another 25 years ? |
| 29 | Most editors and journalists are perfectly honest about the fact that when they need help they tend to go to those PROs who have been helpful in the past . |
| 30 | But they tend to diverge into two types with respect to the information about features that is thought to be important . |