Example sentences of "they [verb] the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They checked the few patients in the waiting-room , and Kathleen got Amy to sort them into priority , talking through the decision-making process as she did so . |
| 2 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 3 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 4 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
| 5 | He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features . |
| 6 | In analysing their left-hand columns , the executives found that each side blamed the other side for the difficulties , and they used the same reasons . |
| 7 | From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls … |
| 8 | An hour later they used the same tactics to gain entry to the other half of the camp . |
| 9 | Mothers often say that they say the same things over and over again and end up losing their tempers in order to get a response . |
| 10 | But they mean something entirely different but they say the same words . |
| 11 | They studied the same subjects for the other nine GCSE subjects . |
| 12 | I wonder if they charge the same prices for their take away as for sitting at the table . |
| 13 | At Southway School yesterday the mountain of flowers outside the gates continued to grow and a number of pupils shed tears as they read the many messages of sympathy . |
| 14 | Yet the All Black confidence and ability to dominate had sunk so low that the three minnows all had parts of the match when they outplayed the All Blacks with embarrassing ease . |
| 15 | The fat men : were they less fat because they were smaller , and so you needed less stomach to appear fat ; or were they more fat , because they developed the same stomachs , but had even less frame to support them ? |
| 16 | I find that some of the ‘ B ’ band kids are doing the same syllabus , and in some cases they get the same marks or better marks than us , yet they ca n't do ‘ O ’ level and they 're in the ‘ B ’ band . |
| 17 | And erm , they recorded different things , but Mat but also they recorded the same things as well |
| 18 | Very often , they believe the more stitches , the more difficult the procedure . |
| 19 | They produce the same effects ; they 're equivalent . |
| 20 | They understand the many options available to savers and are trained to ask questions that get straight to the heart of the matter . |
| 21 | Though they crunch the same numbers and speak to the same executives , the agencies ' analysts have reached markedly different conclusions . |
| 22 | Are they asking the same questions ? |
| 23 | There was some light left as they motored the few miles to The Towers . |
| 24 | And then you , you know , they use the same phrases , and they do n't communicate really . |
| 25 | They knew the same kinds of altered states of consciousness — could they not recognise the mediums as their allies rather than their enemies ? |
| 26 | They had the same size shoes and they wore the same clothes quite often . |
| 27 | The Escalade and the Grande Rentree are respectively for the Calvinists of Geneva and the Waldenses of Torre Pellice what the reconsecration of the Temple is to the Jews ; and they offer the same problems not only of separating facts from legends , but of grasping the meaning of the facts . |
| 28 | If others came along and interviewed the same people on the same topics , would they get the same responses ? |
| 29 | Did they get the same services ? |
| 30 | Reliability is much to , much more to do with replicability , it 's , it 's another if another researcher went in and did it the same way , would they get the same results ? |