Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They badly need to re-establish some credibility , after Warrington , and even they have found it hard to say ‘ no ’ to such a public appeal , from such an unique individual . |
| 2 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 3 | They only had to miss half a dozen meals and they started to complain . |
| 4 | I told them if we did n't get more light and heat up here soon I 'd tear a few more of them apart , but after that they only started acting all stupid , and anyway they 'll soon forget ; they always do . " |
| 5 | they constantly threatened to become more than a handful in every sense , so one sad Saturday he sold the sows with their litters at Taunton market — and since then has dealt with pigs only on paper . |
| 6 | Staff , on the other hand , felt that they constantly tried to do this , both through formal mechanisms , like the initial meeting , nursery booklet , parents ' nights , and also informally , through chat . |
| 7 | They just wanted to redress some glaring injustices in their terms of employment . |
| 8 | making up and they just start hitting each other and that ! |
| 9 | Despite their recognition that even the model example of Greek literacy was not always ‘ unambiguous ’ , explicit and easy , they nevertheless tend to represent these qualities as ‘ intrinsic ’ to literacy and as the source of its great potential . |
| 10 | She found him nice and easy to talk to , and they soon started seeing each other regularly . |
| 11 | Although institutions of higher education to some extent reshaped their admissions procedures before and after the Further & Higher Education Act 1992 , they still appear to pay little attention to the effect which their policies have on schools and colleges . |
| 12 | Of all the things they could have foreseen and prevented how could they possibly have foreseen this ? |
| 13 | These were walking just as fast as the others — yet , for some reason , they hardly seemed to get any closer to the professor ! |
| 14 | Erm , I do n't know how they live , yet they always seemed to have enough money you know . |
| 15 | ‘ Why do they always have to throw that in ? |
| 16 | When they did run into each other on the borders of their territories , they usually tried to kill each other . |
| 17 | Or if they do manage to put you in a bedroom , remember that you 've got a whole camera team there , and they usually want to do some extraordinary shot from very close up , so they put you right on the edge of the bed , probably on a board which you 're about to fall off at any minute . |
| 18 | They also wished to achieve some redistribution of income in favour of families , particularly poor families . |
| 19 | A second meeting was held in mid-October [ see p. 37779-80 ] and a third in December [ see pp. 37918-19 ] , but they also failed to make any tangible progress . |
| 20 | They also hope to develop some kind of a synchronised timetable to provide five or six ships sailing at least every hour for 364 days a year . |
| 21 | In Chapters 1 and 2 we argue , however , that while the sociologies of the Chicago School , Goffman and Harré are all highly suggestive , they also tend to overlook some of the deeper social structures and processes in which individuals and small groups of people are necessarily caught up . |
| 22 | They also tend to have more of the male sex hormone testosterone in their blood : a hen can even be made to ascend its dominance hierarchy by injecting some of this hormone into her blood . |
| 23 | As for informal movements , they may be more creatively productive but they also tend to exclude those who are less confident or advantaged to begin with . |
| 24 | Not only did they make the move , but they also managed to negotiate some funding and an arrangement whereby their staff could continue to be trained on E&Y courses . |
| 25 | They also agreed to take more of the defence burden from the USA . |
| 26 | They also desired to emulate that other class for whom time and birth had provided legitimacy , and for whom wealth appeared as a natural attribute rather than a possibly transient accretion . |
| 27 | This indicates that the politics of local government do not just respond or react to the local environment , but crucially that they also help to mould this environment , and thus to a certain extent help to shape the local political agenda . |
| 28 | Their confused intention is to protect the adventurers ' souls from the evils beyond , but they also want to prevent some great evil being released into the world . |
| 29 | They also have to accept some of the discipline 's traditional priorities . |
| 30 | While monopoles fail to oblige experimenters and continue to evade detection , they also fail to oblige those astrophysicists who had thought that monopoles might be the answer to the problem of the missing solar neutrinos . |