Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 2 | And then other firms did that and er they was the same people nearly , got their own lines and it was worse that was , so they got onto the same lines and er the competition became then financial |
| 3 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 4 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
| 5 | More generally on durability , it seems that the requirement that the goods be of merchantable quality is a continuing requirement that they will continue to be of merchantable quality for a reasonable period after delivery so long as they remain in the same apparent state as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . |
| 6 | In Lambert v. Lewis ( 1981 H.L. ) Lord Diplock said that the condition of fitness for purpose was a continuing obligation ‘ that the goods will continue to be fit for that purpose for a reasonable time after delivery , so long as they remain in the same apparent state and condition as that in which they were delivered , apart from normal wear and tear . ’ |
| 7 | It should not be assumed from these statements that they do not move at all-they can be quite active at high tide by night but that they remain within the same general area of shore . |
| 8 | They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair . |
| 9 | Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 . |
| 10 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 11 | A long-eared owl sat on a low bough overlooking the ride and watched them unblinkingly through his great eyes as they passed within a few paces . |
| 12 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 13 | If they sit at the same or adjacent desks they have a spatial bond . |
| 14 | They change in the same society over time ; for example , when one society is at war with another , some people are actively encouraged to wound and kill other people from the enemy group . |
| 15 | The Tremaynes preferred their original country seat of Heligan , near Mevagissey , and during the nineteenth century they made a lot of money , which they lavished on the latter , leaving Croan untouched by architectural fashions . |
| 16 | And they make to the same place to their feed . |
| 17 | There are new flat roof systems about which are supposed to be better , but they suffer from the same inherent disadvantages as their earlier counterparts . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time . |
| 19 | Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ? |
| 20 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 21 | They moved on a few steps , again stood together , and wrote , " Angry . |
| 22 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 23 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 24 | In other words , they appear at the same time at widely separated localities . |
| 25 | They appear in the most numbers where the marshes meet the wolds and where the stream that feed them from this higher region are , in consequence , faster flowing . |
| 26 | They sleep in the same room with each other , and look beautiful when I am putting them to bed , jumping and hopping about quite naked , rejoicing in the freedom of no clothes . |
| 27 | The price of books of academic criticism indicates that they are not aimed at the educated general reader ( once they cost about the same as a bottle of whisky ; now they cost three to four times as much ) . |
| 28 | Faced with the classic choice facing revolutionaries between a quiet family life and the turbulence of the greater good , they opted for the latter . |
| 29 | In the first nine regions , including the social variables would have resulted in a change of target allocations which opposed the effect of reducing the weighting of standardised mortality ratio — that is , they act in the same direction as standardised mortality ratio . |
| 30 | They react in the same way whether the electric field is due to static charges or to a time-varying magnetic field ; under the force qE they rearrange themselves so as to cancel the electric field inside the conducting material as shown in Fig. 4.1(a) . |