Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these ‘ philosophical ’ analyses of society were essentially based on speculation , on dubious and untested assumptions about the motives of human beings in their behaviour , and on undisciplined theorising , and they lacked systematic analysis of the structure and workings of societies . |
| 2 | Often they lacked day-to-day knowledge of the firms they had invested in , and had a tendency to sell their shares the instant a firm hit trouble . |
| 3 | Or are they reflecting growing disaffection among scientists with recent changes in their profession ? |
| 4 | But the Muslims , though they despise Syrian rule in Lebanon , need Syria 's presence to ensure that real political reform takes place . |
| 5 | They gain wide experience of different types of hardware and many varied programming languages . |
| 6 | Last year they met Civil Service in the preliminaries and the year before it was Muckross . |
| 7 | Another group had landed at Rottingdean and marched inland towards Lewes ; on the way they met fierce resistance from an armed band led by another warlike monk , Prior John of St Pancras . |
| 8 | In Cuzco they met old acquaintances from Buenos Aires , from Santiago , from Quito . |
| 9 | Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats . |
| 10 | At Cheltenham , they recoup early losses with a late hat-trick of winners ; at Brighton , they come badly unstuck ; and at Redcar they pull off a major coup , smuggling suitcase-loads of money on to a 7–1 shot past the eagle eye of the bookies . |
| 11 | They got long poles on the back step . |
| 12 | And they got little trousers at the bottom . |
| 13 | Today they got full backing from the visiting Prison 's Minister . |
| 14 | window sill on there , say , and then this comes down and they got French windows at the bottom . |
| 15 | Now people are n't as open , but that 's because they got taken advantage of . ’ |
| 16 | Medical and veterinary faculties ( for which the competition was high , the numbers limited ) could lay down that candidates would not be considered unless they got high grades in physics , chemistry and biology at A level . |
| 17 | Mind you , if they got big hooves like plates of meat you know , great big |
| 18 | Also some political levy paying members may not join as individuals , although they remain ardent supporters of Labour and come out and work and vote for Labour at both national and local elections . |
| 19 | Graduates not only contribute to industry with their knowledge and practical experience of current practice and methodologies , they bring new ideas to that industry . |
| 20 | Do they prefer certain kinds of leaf for this ? |
| 21 | They sell nice wine in M and S usually . |
| 22 | They sell nice wine in M and S. |
| 23 | cos they sell different sort of |
| 24 | But global expansion has been an expensive objective for banks : they lent vast sums on poor terms to borrowers who could shop around for money , starting in Japan . |
| 25 | Er but er they devised various ways on their own to help them with these things , you know , they er I do n't know exactly what it was called but you you would see a Maybe a riveter in below the in below the boat er doing the shell , in below the boat , and he would have a Like a hammer , a a an arm that was rigged up for him er to give him an assistance with the the machine , to hold the machine up to You know to let him work with the machine . |
| 26 | They laid great emphasis on the value of a high level of participation by members of the lesbian and gay communities . |
| 27 | Some historians have argued that nationalism was the outgrowth of the desire by élites to gain economic and political power , and that they manipulated indigenous symbols to this end . |
| 28 | The problem is that it is highly improbable that a group of patients with brain injury constitute a natural kind , even when they display similar symptoms on some test or other . |
| 29 | The fate of Henry Scott may yet prove to be a salutary lesson to those local authorities intending to expand their programmes of publishing homosexual-related literature , nor should librarians ignore this piece of history if they display homosexual literature amongst their new acquisitions or publish a booklist of homosexual literature . |
| 30 | All cities , in so far as they became modern cities in the last decades of the nineteenth century , underwent the following changes in the organization of public space : ( 1 ) The development of separate commercial districts . |