Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are conspicuous for their conciliatory terms : although they insist as firmly as ever on the prohibition of lay investiture , they make no mention of homage . |
| 2 | They appear even today as can be shown by the many supposed sightings of such creatures as the North American big-foot and its distant relation , the Yeti , and even the Loch Ness Monster , which has prompted an exhaustive scientific survey . |
| 3 | In the human female fetal ovary the maximum number of pachytenes occurs at about 26 weeks , although they appear as early as 14 weeks and continue to about 30 weeks of gestation . |
| 4 | The frescoes allow more scope , but even they show little more than one event at a time . |
| 5 | Between them they earn slightly more than £14,000 . |
| 6 | Still in their independent reveries they walk closely together as they near the end of the park . |
| 7 | So if they 're out of the water they die just like if we 're under the water too long we die . |
| 8 | This they accomplish fairly easily as Orcs are rather dim . |
| 9 | The questions are themselves tentative ( and surely incomplete ) but they are questions of a different order in that they look forward rather than backward . |
| 10 | Most are grown commercially and come from just half a dozen varieties — usually chosen for their red skin or because they travel well rather than because they taste good . |
| 11 | By way of contrast members of a moral or rule-based association share nothing other than their recognition of the authority of those practices ; sharers of a common language , for example , may say what they like so long as they comply with the canons of that language . |
| 12 | They pack tightly together until they cover the stone as closely as tiles on a roof . |
| 13 | They know as well as I do that it has nothing whatsoever to do with who heads a company . |
| 14 | around the m around the Mansfield =field , and these Children , at School they know far more than I do at my age I think . |
| 15 | ‘ If they succeed as well as they did when they 're not trying to kill you , what might n't they achieve if they decide they do want to ? |
| 16 | They last much longer than incandescent tubes , offer more light per watt but need to be carefully chosen in the right colours for the most accurate presentation of food . |
| 17 | Even if , at first reading , you find them formidable , when you come to answer them you will be surprised that they become much easier than you had imagined . |
| 18 | And they go even further than that do n't they ? |
| 19 | ‘ They go fast enough as it is , ’ said one local certainly not averse to the many material improvements in his lifestyle compared to that of his parents without electricity and all that that facilitates . |
| 20 | Not only do they tolerate the fast-food shops serving up nutriment that top breeders would n't recommend for Fido , they go as far as purchasing two expensive weeks in a gruesome timeshare apartment , and sit smoking all day on a balcony overlooking the A9 . |
| 21 | They treat their women like mules and they fornicate with animals ; indeed in this respect they are so jealous that they go so far as to attach chastity belts to their mares and mules . |
| 22 | There are a number of amendments to Schedule 5 which are directed at the same broad objective though they go somewhat further than the suggestions I have described . |
| 23 | They creak only slightly as they open . |
| 24 | Often they stay quite still when disturbed and for some time afterwards , making it even more difficult to spot them . |
| 25 | For instance , when subjects have to decide whether certain names are familiar or not ( say , Oliver Hardy ) they respond more quickly if they are shown , a few tenths of seconds earlier , a picture of a person who is associated with the target name ( Stan Laurel ) . |
| 26 | To help her , she is allowed to ask three people to turn round , which they do as far as possible without revealing whether or not they have the ball . |
| 27 | One of those tricks is simply to take a lip-hold of the maggots without the hook being inside their mouths , which they do quite easily when the hook is a substantial one . |
| 28 | People did not have to face the problem alone as they do so often when it comes to social security benefit cuts . |
| 29 | But they do so only after they 've had their seven rehearsals . ’ |
| 30 | Erm , I do n't think they live much longer than that . |