Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's better for them to see their loved ones as they remember them . ’ |
| 2 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 3 | Other major applications under development include computer aided design systems which enable designers to actually enter 3-D models of their creations , to explore their functionality , aesthetics and to alter them using their computer-generated , virtual hands . |
| 4 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 5 | The growing Country opposition to William 's ministry in the Scottish Parliament consisted mainly of men who stood on a Revolution and Presbyterian foot , but whose exclusion from office exacerbated their disillusionment and allowed them to indulge their nationalist sentiments . |
| 6 | One of them turns her tired beam on us . |
| 7 | Dark gull-like seabirds , called Jaegers in North America , noted for their piratical methods of feeding , by pursuing other seabirds , especially gulls and terns , to make them disgorge their last catch . |
| 8 | But it can stop them seeing its underlying gender biases . |
| 9 | Some in the colony 's business community share that view since following it in policy terms would allow them to continue their prosperous trade links across the border . |
| 10 | ‘ But you have to make them want it first . |
| 11 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 12 | Although reporters gave the impression that the troupes were new to the American stage , they had in fact made their debut as far back as 1900 when George Lederer booked them to perform their original Pony Trot . |
| 13 | By trying different sheets and pushing them to perform your working requirements , you will find your favourite papers in time . |
| 14 | To enable them to conduct their private practice economically and sensibly from their viewpoint , pay beds were an imperative . |
| 15 | they have a tendency to open them make them wider apart |
| 16 | The sheer numbers of them make it spectacular although there are no huge centrepiece fireworks . |
| 17 | Then he held two men friends of his estranged wife at gunpoint and forced them to drive him 200 miles to her secret address at Barrow-in- Furness , Cumbria . |
| 18 | They are designed not only to keep out black people but to try and intimidate black workers already in Britain and make it harder for them to claim their basic human rights . |
| 19 | As I detest midges more than most things in life , leaving them to enjoy their open season for humans is no hardship either . |
| 20 | To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they . |
| 21 | ‘ Can they be so hideous in appearance the mere sight of them drives you mad ? ’ |
| 22 | The extreme toxicity of their venom enables them to kill their main prey — eels — very rapidly and thus prevent them from wriggling free . |
| 23 | Finally , functional elites may be offered incorporation within the policy process in order to compel them to sacrifice their organizational muscle , and to undertake the state 's dirty work by disciplining dissidents within their organizations . |
| 24 | Firms are less likely to set profit-maximising prices for their products when faced with rising raw material prices and labour costs as it is more difficult for them to estimate their expected revenues and costs . |
| 25 | The prospect of seeing them made him full of joy . |
| 26 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 27 | At the East 15 Drama School I have taken audition technique sessions , which was all fine and large but I encouraged them to write their own material as well as having stock pieces to do . |
| 28 | The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture . |
| 29 | The free Church Council , special emergencies apart , will therefore best serve the administration of its city or town , neither by meddlesome interference with it , nor by attempting to be represented as such in its political caucuses , or even on its administrative boards ; but by training men who , representing its views and coming under its influence , have at once the strength of character and the breadth of conception , which will cause them to secure its great ends … in the ordinary arena of public life . |
| 30 | Whatever these changes were , many who witnessed them found them worrying and unsettling . |