Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , such con- ditions did not disgrace every mill , nor were they wholly absent outside the factory system . |
| 2 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 3 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 4 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 5 | Two years later they successfully appealed against the ruling in the High Court … and now Mr Gilberthorpe 's been told he 's too late bring the case to court again . |
| 6 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 7 | They might say you gave a good performance , or they may say you gave a bad one , but they rarely go into the realms of personal abuse . |
| 8 | Possibly they are apt to become too ambitious — they rarely succumb to the disease of ‘ fontitis ’ but are only too apt to have bad attacks of ‘ linkitis ’ and ‘ activitis ’ . |
| 9 | They might think of glass-cased collections of curios , but they rarely think about the old house next door , the ridges and mounds in the field down the road , or the bits of old pottery that they dig up in the garden . |
| 10 | The Sunshine Girls were the only troupe to travel as far as St Petersburg and Budapest but it was noticeable that they rarely worked at the Winter Gardens which was Jennie 's stronghold . |
| 11 | It is no surprise they all have bright red noses , for their two great loves are tobacco and whisky ; they rarely appear without a pipe and are known to raid cellars , particularly favouring homemade ale . |
| 12 | The politicking between the ruwatu is kept at a relatively low-key level , for they rarely meet as a group . |
| 13 | It is not that the advocates of these approaches to the curriculum take different views of the nature of society , but that they fundamentally differ regarding the purposes of education . |
| 14 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 15 | Then , in 1988 , traces of 10 were found in Vietnam 's Nam Cat Tien swamp , where they presumably lived through the war . |
| 16 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 17 | In short , they do not begin with a question and seek an answer ; they rather start with an answer and devise a corresponding question . |
| 18 | They duly arrived at the perimeter wire of the airfield and to their left they noticed a pair of Italian sentries manning a roadblock . |
| 19 | Sadly , the beautiful old yacht Honey Bee was only going to Cruibh Haven but they keenly solicited around the basin on my behalf . |
| 20 | Only when employees own part of their company are they justifiably entitled to a share of the profit . |
| 21 | In the second paragraph they expressly referred to the right of an over-subscribed school to adopt reasonable criteria for selection , the criteria had been published in this case , and that they were required to take such criteria into account . |
| 22 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 23 | In Covent Garden , Luttrell tells us , " the image of the French king was made and drawn in a chariot , and over his head in capital letters was wrott , Lewis the greatest tyrant of fourteen " , which they eventually committed to the flames . |
| 24 | A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution , but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927 . |
| 25 | The series was tight and there were many close matches which could have gone either way but they eventually went in the American 's favour . |
| 26 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 27 | They eventually came into the possession of the picture agency Popperfoto , now based in our region . |
| 28 | So much so in fact that 20 minutes into the second-half they led 16–12 before they eventually succumbed to a Malone scoring spree — gifting Malone two late tries after foolishly attempting to run poor quality ball from deep inside their own 25 . |
| 29 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 30 | Bashir Gemayel 's Phalange and Dany Chamoun 's Tigers provided thousands of them , mostly civilians , when they eventually broke into the camp in August . |