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

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1 At the June elections , for the first time ever , they got together to block roads and occupy sites , demanding more land , and money for bilingual education .
2 well , I always do it through the infants , they bring home reading books
3 In extreme cases they became simply receiving institutions for classes of paupers with little hope .
4 For example , do they want home based respite care or would they prefer a separate facility for respite care and , if so , what form or forms should this take ?
5 They are prone to accumulate more nutrient than is good for them ; and , of course , they tend also to accumulate toxins .
6 And , because they are designed to operate at a lower cost level they tend not to make demands for expensive peripherals such as PostScript devices or even simpler page printers such as Epsons and Okis that emulate the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet .
7 Because generally speaking … when they get a bee in their bonnet , they tend not to write letters .
8 They want to make screwball romantic comedies but they wind up producing sitcoms that look lost without a laugh track .
9 DERRY City recorded their first win in four competitive games when they defeated newly promoted Monaghan United at the Brandywell last night to qualify for a quarter-final League Cup clash with Waterford United .
10 Is there any wonder customers moan when they are told the items they want now cost £32 each instead of £18 ?
11 In 1938 they moved in to take control of Denham Studios .
12 Our they 'll want to forget that the Tories programme and policies , they lied about taxes they promised not to extend V A T they lied about protecting the value of pensions well I hope the people who get the eight four P and the one twenty , the one 's that the old dears will remember that because that 's what they will be getting .
13 They propose broadly based agitation on social and economic issues but nowhere do they contain blueprints that correspond with the objectives , structure or activities of NICRA .
14 Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting .
15 Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting .
16 Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside
17 He might just as well not have bothered , for it was there still , it would be there for ever , unless one day they found how to cut memory out of the brain with a scalpel .
18 Miss Jeanette told how in the early hours of that day she had gone with Nichol to a nearby beauty spot and they tried unsuccessfully to have sex .
19 Childebert I and Chlothar I ensured that Chlodomer 's sons did not succeed their father , and they tried hard to exclude Theudebert I from the throne .
20 One solution would be to license the promoters of warehouse parties on condition that they provide adequately soundproofed buildings , parking facilities and stewards for the surrounding areas .
21 They provide much needed colour at a time when many perennials and certainly most shrubs have finished , but without appearing overwhelmingly garish .
22 There are many different types of crystal — often they build up to form bladder stones which can be the size of a tennis ball !
23 Academic studies have confirmed the obvious : events make news if they are clear , unusual , unexpected or unpredict-able ; if they fit a medium 's cycle ( a daily paper , for example , or an hourly news bulletin ) ; if they involve well known people or groups , places or countries ; if they are close to home ( literally or figuratively ) ; if they are negative ( accidents ) or reach a certain volume ( in terms of numbers hurt , for example , or goals scored ) .
24 and they say not to eat apples and oranges , er , at one time they told you to eat the lot did n't they apples a day keep the doctor 's away .
25 Thorpe B are already relegated , but they played well to hold Jaywick A to a draw , Tony Bull taking a maximum three , and Robin Rush chipping in with a good win over Doug Green .
26 And some wene they close and conteyne the worlde in theyr hondes … and therefore they put not theyr hondes to take mete … ’ paranoid patients ‘ fall in to full euyll suspiccions without recouer and therfore they hate and blame theyr frendes , and sometyme smite and slee theim ’ .
27 In the presence of high ultraviolet light , they break down to release radicals which destroy photosynthetic pigments and may form TCA ( trichloroacetic acid ) , itself used as a herbicide .
28 They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend .
29 They came down to buy sugar , flour , saltfish or candy from Nana , to collect letters and exchange gossip .
30 as if they 'd just discovered immortality to be
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