Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they call out the names of the new members , I would like them to stand so they can all recognise and welcome them . |
| 2 | ‘ Miers could not take the German prisoners on board his sub , and if he had left them to paddle ashore they would immediately have gone back into the German forces … |
| 3 | And that 's what matters to make them work like they are . |
| 4 | As they got nearer they could see it was some-one , head and shoulders clearly visible . |
| 5 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 6 | The aim was to toss bombs into them as they drove past , but when they got there they discovered that the sentries were being changed . |
| 7 | I think when they lived there they used to meet regularly , cos erm , I suppose Worcester , Worcester in November |
| 8 | The patient might tell you what if , if the casualty was still able to talk , they might be able to give you the history of how they became like they were , received a blow , got kicked , fell onto something hard , okay and so on and so on , they might be able to tell you themselves , give some indication , right , you would remove and loosen off all tight clothing , okay , loosen off the clothing for them and then treat them for shock and then refer them to urgent medical attention , nil by mouth on any account , okay ? |
| 9 | This cost them the lead , and though they recovered well they could n't stop a second Risley boat , crewed by husband and wife team and , slipping through to take the chequered flag after five circuits . |
| 10 | For there are other plates surrounding the Pacific Plate and they jostle and crash against each other , like ice floes at break-up time ; and as they jostle so they tide up against each other , pushing each other deeper , cracking and bending as they do so — only on a global scale , and with extraordinary consequences . |
| 11 | Yet he feared they were like biting fish in a fine mesh net , if they swam forward they would never escape ; he saw them lifting their limbs with automatic motion , as crayfish with their lumbering claws knock against the basketwork of the pens in which they have been trapped . |
| 12 | The people why they want here they can have cheaper right here . |
| 13 | Has anyone got anything else they want particularly they 'd like ? |
| 14 | As they drew nearer they became conscious of a high pitched humming noise . |
| 15 | yeah , well with the on the van as well , so he try and put a bit more you know , and they say well they do the same , they used to have a |
| 16 | Well he has someone saying that describing away and they say right they and just like jump off the page and start moving round the room . |
| 17 | According to wha according to what they say now they did . |
| 18 | Then as they roared away they machine-gunned the buildings . |
| 19 | They may become dissatisfied with the view that they hold so they are motivated to enquire further and test out their ideas with new evidence . |
| 20 | The greatest problem , therefore , was not in getting men into the colleges but in raising the level of the education they received once they were there . |
| 21 | Neither of them was able to identify any they came away they did not feel they had been of much help . |
| 22 | And if I remember they came then they came for the Trade Unionist . |
| 23 | Well I 'm telling you they stuck it they had a sort of flat bottomed cart and they used to stick it in and when they came there they , they lifted it off and stuck it in the ground and it was just similar to that only it was hooped |
| 24 | But of course she told me that when they came there they were there to look after the place so that it was n't taken over , you know by anybody else , but she had a washing machine , the washing machine come in just after . |
| 25 | I mean we could cook it much more cheaply but we we do that then they 'd just they 'll throw the book at us , we ca n't do it . |
| 26 | And of course they 'd never They very rarely thought of washing clothes in tap water those days , it was all rainwater . |
| 27 | The IMW threshold was agreed by the industry as a way of limiting the negotiations , which they faced once they were free to compete after 1 April 1990 , to manageable numbers — around 5,000 customers . |
| 28 | Sometimes they seem like they 're just coming all the time do n't they ? |
| 29 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 30 | Once more it was impossible to get high enough to see over the neighbouring branches but he called down that he was reasonably sure that they were now at the southernmost end of the depression which contained the Swamp and that if after another mile or so they turned westward they could do so on dry land . |