Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forsooth , my lord , quoth 1 , your sheep that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters , now , I hear say , be become so great devourers and so wild , that they eat up and swallow down the very men themselves . |
| 2 | Threaten their votes and they sit up and listen . |
| 3 | Yet when another child is attacked , they sit up and take notice . |
| 4 | Every Saturday they sit upstairs and do nothing , do n't even . |
| 5 | Instead , suggest that they sit quietly and listen to the discussion . |
| 6 | The tenants do n't want to be hurried into any decisions , so they sit quietly and listen . |
| 7 | ‘ Russian men are very lazy ; they sit back and wait . |
| 8 | When they think they know , they can ask one of their friends and , as soon as they guess correctly , they sit down and watch the fun as the others seek out their own identity . |
| 9 | They articulate well and do not run out of breath before the end of a sentence , because they are used to breathing adequately . |
| 10 | Or is it an opportunity for you to be assertive — to go back to the shop , and request that they cash up and return your fiver ? |
| 11 | In doing this they pick up and swallow mud , gravel and other matter . |
| 12 | Here and there they pick up and make use of the old common balks in the former open fields , which must have been the usual way of proceeding from one village to another in open-field country , but for the most part they are drawn straight across the old furlongs and strips regardless of all considerations but that of directness . |
| 13 | This attitude , you know , boys will be boys and they make a mess and poor Mum has to do all the washing , is really quite , quite misguided because it , it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons , and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 14 | It 's really quite misguided because it does encourage those assumptions that mothers are there to tidy up after sons and of course then sons when they grow up and get wives want to replace their mothers . |
| 15 | But you know how it is , it 's family ties and kids growing up and then they grow up and have families of their own , then you get tied to the ch grandchildren or what have you . |
| 16 | And since children are already members of society the nature of their lives , and especially their lives as they grow up and leave school , is a part of the nature of society . |
| 17 | In summer , when there is plenty of sunshine and moisture , they grow quickly and produce large wood cells ; in winter when growth is slow , the wood is much more dense . |
| 18 | At his first words they leap up and do a double-take . ) |
| 19 | Or the person who 's trying not to drink so much and beats themself up when they slip back and get drunk ! |
| 20 | The twin-spotted wainscot moth lays its eggs in the bur reed , but the larvae later transfer to the common reed as they fatten up and need a thicker stem to tunnel into . |
| 21 | These invitations provide schools with an opportunity to spell out clearly to parents the values that they hold dearly and provide an accurate picture of their schools as centres of learning and excellence . |
| 22 | R&D consortia which include films that produce different products using the same basic technological knowledge may also be able to segment user markets , price discriminating more effectively as a group than they are able to do when they act independently and earning a higher return on their R&D activities . |
| 23 | We 'll do so-and-so , and they walk away and leave it , and the adapters they say , they see the adapters as stick in the muds , ooh , they all do the same old thing , ooh , it 's boring and that sort of thing you see . |
| 24 | They walk about and photograph the valley and the hill peaks . |
| 25 | But El-ahrairah would not listen and he said to Frith , " My people are the strongest in the world , for they breed faster and eat more than any of the other people . |
| 26 | We do n't know whether they 're localized or whether they spread out and lubricate the movements of the tectonic plates . |
| 27 | When spring comes they break through and emerge as butterflies ( see pages 8–9 ) . |
| 28 | Roland Summit believed fervently in satanic ritual abuse , and followed the theory that , if a child denies abuse , that is sufficient evidence that they have been abused , and therefore they should be pushed until they break down and admit it . |
| 29 | Some have fleshy whiskers half as long as their bodies which they project forward and wave about , like a blind person with a stick . |
| 30 | The cows are particularly milky and can give high ratios of calf weaning weight to cow weight ; they calve easily and have retained the Highland 's strong mothering instinct . |