Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There would be times for tenderness , and one such time came later , in the aftermath of passion enriched by the knowledge of love , a bonus as they lay touching each other languidly and lovingly , luxuriating in the freedom of being able to express their feelings in this alternative way , confidently but without urgency . |
| 2 | So that when they sit facing each other on either side of their fire-place , both grins take off in the direction of the mantelpiece , as if drawn by the draught . |
| 3 | And how do you know for a fact that they intend to bring these sorts of techniques in to Britain ? |
| 4 | Even if , like Cox ( 1981 ) , they represent Hispanic , Native-American , Asian-American and Afro-American women 's experiences , they tend to treat these categories as equivalent , and ignore differences within them , which may be more important than differences between them . |
| 5 | Because the home is a workplace for women , they tend to spend more time there than men or children . |
| 6 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ The purpose of the grant is to extend choices for working parents , mainly women since they tend to take most responsibility for childcare . |
| 8 | They tend to regard each others ' markets as their own ‘ home ’ markets , whereas UK companies still tend to regard selling to EC countries as exporting . |
| 9 | This suggests they tend to pay more attention to cigarette advertising . |
| 10 | They tend to forget these interests when using predominantly middle-class women psychologists ' arguments , for example . |
| 11 | They tend to have more empathy towards anything foreign and are more aware of language learning difficulties — having struggled to master English to a fairly high level . |
| 12 | They tend to favour those media which have audiences with ( usually ) high purchasing powers as against media which have readers or viewers with limited purchasing power . |
| 13 | The choice they make has all kinds of consequences — whether they 'll be up or down , whether they 'll be fit to drive or fit to live , and whether they are risking a criminal record . |
| 14 | They mean to succeed this time . |
| 15 | However , once Governments of either party know that they will complete a Bill on a certain day , they hand much of the power over to the Opposition to decide how they want to use that time to debate the proper timing and clauses . |
| 16 | They want to use less fuel and cause less pollution , but at the same time recoil from too many sacrifices in terms of comfort and performance . |
| 17 | Darlington 's cyclists also complained about being forced to dismount if they want to use those routes . |
| 18 | If they want to create that sort of society , |
| 19 | They want to own each other . |
| 20 | ‘ A small minority of Members of Parliament after these weeks and months of debate have still been unable to tell us what they want , where they want to lead this country and who is going with them . ’ |
| 21 | Where G Ps are at liberty to refer their patients wherever they want to refer those patients . |
| 22 | They thought it was broken , then they said it was just a bad sprain , but apparently they want to do another X-ray , so I simply do n't know what 's happening . |
| 23 | I told you they want to do another X-ray , and they 're sending him to Carlisle for that , the Cumberland Infirmary . ’ |
| 24 | The divisional head office has offered to help the local offices if they want to take that route . |
| 25 | Well , that 's why people to do when they want to take that photograph of our dog that time , when that women |
| 26 | They want to take another shot and Bogart says , ‘ Let me have a clean shirt , please . ’ |
| 27 | They can they can if they want to take some wool away they can . |
| 28 | ‘ They 've invited you down to their warehouse , they want to take some photos . ’ |
| 29 | Earlier this month the marine geologists at the survey 's western headquarters in Menlo Park , California , revealed what they discovered during a nine-month cruise last year and what they want to reexamine this year . |
| 30 | And if they want to exercise those prejudices that 's a matter for them . |