Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They only cover up the ‘ caveman ’ body smells which act as a natural stimulant , says chemist Dr David Kelly . |
| 2 | They alone knew where the evil gorgons were to be found and jealously protected their whereabouts until PERSEUS forced them to reveal their secret when he stole their eye . |
| 3 | Young children will pass through a stage when they will believe that row A in the illustration below has the same number as row B because they ‘ look the same ’ ; they apparently take up the same space . |
| 4 | three million books on the shelve , and we do n't have time going properly at the price so we go anything you want , bung it on the trolley and soon as the trolleys full it 's taken away and another one given , and you poke around and then in the evening , you stay in a hotel overnight , and then the following morning , they get and you just sort of send up the money and they just shout up the money as we go , then , every time I get to a thousand they say one , two , and you say right , tell me when I get near three , and I 've got this erm , I 'm dreadful at maths , I failed maths O Level three times and I do n't think about prices , I 've never been more than fifteen pounds out . |
| 5 | They just had n't the stomach to tell you so themselves . |
| 6 | Sometimes they just go over the top . |
| 7 | They 're not old enough to go to the pubs , or they do n't seem old enough , so they just go down the park and get drunk . |
| 8 | He was appalled at their habits , saying they just covered up the dirt by placing new rushes over the old , thus covering the dirt and filth which was caused by animals wandering in and out of the houses . |
| 9 | You know with the and when she does n't know where she 's going to get enough money to feed , clothe them and especially at a time like now , when all these adverts are on television for , you know the toys that children want , and they just have n't the ability to provide those those things for the children , much as they would want to do it . |
| 10 | No matter they had , or aspired to , Bentleys and Rolls and MGs and Rovers — no matter they somehow winkled out the wherewithal to obtain the vehicles — Burton 's saying it was somehow too vulgar . |
| 11 | At half-time Gloucester were only a penalty down , but they soon made up the three points and took the game with the only try . |
| 12 | The various components of the mixture separate as they gradually move down the column . |
| 13 | They promptly stripped out the interior of the buildings and completely redesigned them . |
| 14 | and somehow I do n't know how , but somehow they always knew when the train was being loaded up with tanks and then that was the night we would get a raid and of course , you see , they all ra tried for the station . |
| 15 | They always knew where the next offensive was because they were making maps for them . |
| 16 | ‘ But they always end up the same — I see that terrible expression on Len 's face as he fell — then I hear the thud as he hits the floor — then I wake up in a cold sweat . |
| 17 | Three , five , and when you 've worked these square roots out , they always come out the opposites sides , it 's always plus or minus , , always , always , always . |
| 18 | They have been jaw locking , tail shaking and they always move around the tank together . |
| 19 | Although they may get flattened by a rainstorm , they quickly recover once the sun comes out . |
| 20 | When staff at the hospital realised their mistake they quickly brought out the right baby . |
| 21 | I saw parties feeding on the seed-heads of thrift in the middle of a gannet colony , on the seeds of rushes out on the windswept moors , and in my own garden where they quickly cleaned up the remaining rowan berries . |
| 22 | They quickly use up the yolk sac and Liquifry should be provided from the moment of hatching so that food is available when required . |
| 23 | We shall go on expanding higher and further education to ensure more of our young people go on to college as naturally as they once went down the pit or onto the shop floor . |
| 24 | Although they are a principled pair — they once turned down the Smarties Award on moral grounds — the Ahlbergs reject the notion of children 's author as moralist . |
| 25 | They also played down the role of Sir Alan Walters , the Prime Minister 's personal economic adviser , in the critical decisions to intervene heavily in the past two weeks and raise interest rates to protect the pound last Thursday . |
| 26 | Just as they clean up all the trash and litter , they also clean up the earth and the sky , transmogrifying cars , turning tools , parts , weapons , bolts into carbon and iron . |
| 27 | His is just one example of the new enterprises supplying fish to shops or restaurants that cut out Billingsgate market ; for they also cut out the 25 per cent or so that trading through the market adds to the cost of fish . |
| 28 | In the poetry of Mallarmé the words ‘ mean ’ what a French dictionary tells us they mean , but they also take on the private and idiosyncratic meanings that Mallarmé gives them . |
| 29 | The principle is that the hook bait is free enough to behave very similarly to loose fed baits , but that the carp suck it in so strongly they also suck in the large hook . |
| 30 | Disclosure is only one of the areas dealt with in the regulations ; they also set out the principles and rules to be followed in preparing building societies ' accounts . |