Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so all that writing is actually surrounding your picture is n't it , you 've come up with your sensational picture and then you surround your sensational picture with your writing , I was saying to him with these little sub-headings like trapped , right , cost , holiday , okay which actually keep your reader hooked and make them want to read on . |
| 2 | What was it about the name that made them want to funk on down and start praising the Lord ? |
| 3 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 4 | The upshot was that after much argument all three of them agreed to help out , and all five of us did manage to get to the church on time . |
| 5 | None of them got icing on today . |
| 6 | and one of them got bunked off |
| 7 | Many of them got burnt out . |
| 8 | The therapist helped them to agree to carry out mutual tasks which were that they would spend one day out together during the next weekend and visit a friend together on another day during the week . |
| 9 | Do they mean none transferable from person to person or from book to book , erm , for everything it does n't say and if they know , both of them stopped sending out those |
| 10 | When friends asked me out I had to turn them down and one or two of them stopped calling round . |
| 11 | BETTY BOO and Boy George make a very Hattractive pair … even if one of them needs to cover up a lack of locks more than the other . |
| 12 | Before dawn Harry had set them to work collecting up any combustible material they could find ; pieces of shattered furniture , empty ammunition cases , even books . |
| 13 | if the Robemaker had left any Sentry Spells , then surely this was the moment for them to come rearing out to challenge the intruders . |
| 14 | One of them has come back . |
| 15 | One of them has taken up residence in a hut in Roche 's garden . |
| 16 | A number of Scottish councils adopted the kind of policies proposed by the 1981 STUC resolution , but none of them has set up a unit or appointed specific anti-discrimination workers . |
| 17 | I 'm aware of having made only two conscious sacrifices for the sake of my young , and neither of them has paid off . |
| 18 | ‘ If one of them starts behaving out of character , I know that something 's upsetting them . |
| 19 | So what 's interesting here is that they seem to be having a conversation about un the university matters , the history department and so on but in fact there 's this kind of subtext going on here in which both of them want to find out about the other person 's children and both of them are being very mysterious and avoiding the question . |
| 20 | For them there is a needless , lifelong fear of encountering a strange cat , a fear that sometimes ends with them refusing to go out of doors at all . |
| 21 | I could understand them wanting to escape back to a time when they were ‘ needed ’ . |
| 22 | Lots of them came rushing over to me and started stroking my face and wetting my brow and making a sort of wailing noise , and then three of them turned on Matt looking really nasty . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't like the look of yours much , Yant , ’ was his favourite expression as the two of them prepared to chat up a couple of strange girls . |
| 24 | He attributes this success to the strong bond that existed between the parents : a plentiful food supply ; the friendly interrelation of the chicks themselves , apparently because they were of opposite sexes ; and , not least , the shape and size of the nest which gave them space to keep out of each other 's way . |
| 25 | some of them forgot to come back at night . |
| 26 | Gifts from them helped eke out her limited income throughout her training and over the next several years . |
| 27 | It caused some mirth amongst my friends , but I noticed that several of them began to pin up similar notices in their own homes . |
| 28 | Right from the first day of term the two of them started wandering round together during the morning-break and in the lunch-hour . |
| 29 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 30 | But for Balbir , as for the majority of Asian girls who have turned to prostitution , they still think that it is too degrading for them to consider going out on to the streets . |