Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] this " in BNC.

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1 There was a silence after this during which both of them tried to integrate this information but could not .
2 If anyone feels the Lord prompting them to help meet this financial outlay please see Rosina Kilpatrick or myself .
3 The editor will know that , and the editor will be sensitive to the readership , and the editor will look at it , not through the eyes of an editor just as an individual , but will say , ‘ Putting myself in the , in the position of my readers , would they want to read this ? ’
4 They mean to succeed this time .
5 For some teachers , problems arose when they sought to reconcile this expectation with their simultaneous sense of obligation to monitor , diagnose , assess and interact at the level of the individual child .
6 ‘ 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 . ’
7 The suggestion that er we should join this er , I mean first of all I think that 's if they would allow us to join it , and obviously we realise why they want to join this , rather to the Archbishop of Canterbury saying he would like to join er sit in his cabinet and , and , this , this that sort of level of discussion .
8 They are spiritually awake and they sometimes put us to shame because they seem to make strides so fast that we have a job to keep up with them , they want to do this , they want to do that , they get baptized they want to auxiliary pioneer and before you know where the , where you are they 're in the regular pioneer ranks , and that 's lovely to see is n't it ?
9 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 .
10 Historically , it originated in the recognition by the early scribes in the twelfth–fourteenth centuries that readers needed visual clues to tell the difference between words that otherwise would look identical ; and one of the ways they tried to show this was by the addition of the e .
11 She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust .
12 They received form this charming man not only a handsome cheque , but the gift of a copy of his own book ‘ Modern First Editions – their value to collectors ’ , inscribed with the words ‘ For Christian Aid .
13 I can see they ve got this rule about players to be selected .
14 them and they came had this little pancakes were dishes of er there was a dish of the sauce that
15 What have they done to deserve this bonus ?
16 And they were not having anybody in the mine , with a watch , who could let people know exactly what the time was , and in other words , create a situation where the men might go home before they 'd completed this particular task .
17 Once they 'd realized this , the villagers came to her often with their problems .
18 I had the nasty feeling they 'd done this before .
19 They 'd heard this awful racket you see and they 'd thought it was me coming and falling or something on the stairs .
20 After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war .
21 After the North Vietnamese revealed that they were able to sustain erm a w er their war in er erm the south it seemed regardless of what , what the United States could do to them , er after they 'd revealed this in the Tet offensive of nineteen sixty eight , then President Johnson announced he would not be standing for re-election , and that was a significant admission of political defeat and if you remember , well you probably wo n't remember but you certainly should 've read about it , President Nixon was returned with a , a majority er er on the platform of ending the Vietnam war .
22 They 'd taken this information back .
23 But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations .
24 They 'd picked this house without saying a word to him .
25 Cos they 'd had this meal .
26 No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out .
27 And they 'd got this eggshell in the bottom anyway and away it went .
28 I du n no , they get in on a Friday night he said by the time we 've cashed up , when I got there they 'd got this round coffee table in the middle of the room similar to that brass one what I 'm but it 's an old tin thing it is sitting in the middle of the room there was a little bag of money there a little bag of money there and a bag of money there that 's Geoff 's money that 's petrol money that 's five hundred pound .
29 Th th the final the final sort of sick joke was the fact that erm having having disposed of the fingers to the theatre , the hospital they 'd got this box of ice lollies so they proceeded then to give them to people !
30 They 'd bought this enormous house , Four Winds , which used to be the local manor or something .
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