Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that is not the end of the story ; networks will not only serve the interests of the market ; they bring within reach the possibility of the surveillance of whole populations , with serious implications for personal privacy . |
| 2 | They tend also to overlook the fact that changes in these factors are gradual - a matter of small steps rather than sudden leaps or dramatic disjunctions . |
| 3 | They tend instead to translate the power of gender and other social relations directly into the unconscious . |
| 4 | In most fish they contract successively to throw the body into sinuous waves , which propel it forwards . |
| 5 | Even friends acknowledge that she approaches conversations as an intellectual exchange rather than as an opportunity to empathize ; her invitations to colleagues to define their terms and to explain ‘ precisely ’ what they mean often disconcert the unprepared . |
| 6 | Then , having settled their men and their stewards and their womenfolk , if they had any , they moved eastwards to do the same for themselves and for others along the course of the Forth , and to drift , with an inquisitive eye , through the hills and croplands that lay southwards in Northumbrian hands . |
| 7 | I was n't going that far today , but I could hear the bulldozer they used sometimes to spread the garbage around as it revved and pushed . |
| 8 | As stated earlier these strategies are defined as ‘ activating forces within the system to alter the system ’ , and they involve either improving the problem-solving capabilities of the system , or releasing and fostering growth in the persons who make up the system to be changed . |
| 9 | In idle moments or when there is not a lot going on on the dump , they fly across to annoy the birds on the pools . |
| 10 | This will occur if for example the buyer has had some use of the goods and subsequently they perished thereby frustrating the contract . |
| 11 | They seek merely to tackle the effects of surpluses , not the causes . ’ |
| 12 | The achievement of the men of '58 — they played superbly to reach the final only to lose to Dublin — is still recalled proudly in Derry . |
| 13 | Whatever their regrets at the time , however , the Americans had certainly lost them by the early 1950s as they came increasingly to value the sterling area as a buffer for the dollar . |
| 14 | Less than 48 hours later you 'd think they 'd just won the pools . |
| 15 | They 'd tasted like shit but they 'd sure done the stuff ; everybody else had been whining about the story while Pete had been lying there with his tongue hanging out . |
| 16 | They 'd even discovered the unlikeliest things in common — a liking for potted shrimps and piano concertos , an aversion to veal and Wagner . |
| 17 | They 're offered for sale at around six pounds … and in cases like these available before they 'd even reached the cinema . |
| 18 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 19 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 20 | He could probably switch Mason and the others about a bit ; they 'd nearly finished the job at Coleworthy Farm ; but he must n't start counting his chickens . |
| 21 | And then they was eating their supper so just want another piece of bread , and they 'd nearly finished the tape . |
| 22 | unfortunately they 'd already printed the forms |
| 23 | They 'd only sold the land , had n't they ? |
| 24 | The thing is Danny is that they said they 'd only bought the thing in July . |
| 25 | They 'd only had the boat 18 months . |
| 26 | They 'd all seen the armada crossing the water . |
| 27 | Now you get the health problems caused by over tight corseting , which led to constriction of lungs , of ribs , in some cases , punctured lungs , a lot of cases of T B in the eighteen forties were in fact where the corset had compressed the ribs so tightly , that they 'd actually punctured the lung . |
| 28 | But the government front bench denied opposition claims that they 'd deliberately delayed the decision to boost Tory support on the eve of the Party Conference . |
| 29 | They 'd almost reached the place where the party was , but she told the driver to keep going . |
| 30 | they 'd better share the police and if it comes to the crunch I can get a farm yard for the birthday |