Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other sugar substitutes like saccharin , cyclamate and aspartame , are all targetted at dieters , combining a sweet taste with no calories ( although each one of them has faced questions concerning safety ) . |
| 2 | It is difficult to accept the praises of some American critics for the overblown gigantism of the Beaux-Arts , particularly as none of them has followed Ruskin 's injunction to see architecture as mirroring the life of a society in all its facets . |
| 3 | So far three critics have attempted this comparison ( with varying statistics ) , but none of them has done justice to the intensity and range of Shakespeare 's pronouns . |
| 4 | They caress him and speak , they offer him nourishment , warmth , sanctuary ; but none of them has seen Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd have thought so , ’ he said , and Maureen went on , ‘ He did n't remember anything after falling asleep but they got married right away and Beryl just lay around like an invalid until the baby was born six months later . ’ |
| 6 | I know I 'm so they they eat you see they 've eaten fish and chips and it goes through the air conditioning and it comes into the studio you all you can smell is fish and chips . |
| 7 | ‘ I hear they 've poured oil on the sea and set it alight ’ said a shore boy . |
| 8 | But you see they 've had computers in hospitals now for years |
| 9 | see they 've got Tina Turner tonight . |
| 10 | Lights and everything like that is is is lovely to see but you see they 've got lights here in Leicester which other cities and places have n't got . |
| 11 | You see they 've quoted C Freight , New York to Bombay , and it probably includes F O B New York on fifty tons , twenty thousand six hundred and fifty five U S dollars , now that is over four hundred dollars per ton , know that sounds generous to me Lynda . |
| 12 | The latter were more concerned with the tangible and apparently more readily eradicable physical conditions which they believed influenced behaviour than with the less tangible effects of infant emotional experience or of inheritance . |
| 13 | Perhaps they 'd met Sadie . |
| 14 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 15 | There had been a moon when they 'd first arrived , but the clouds had come while they were chopping wood , and the rain while they 'd cooked dinner on the two little primus stoves . |
| 16 | Sick of men being censured for their advances towards women JOHN HIND and STEVEN MOSCO told the papers they 'd formed MVTR : Men For Verbal And Tactile Rights . |
| 17 | They 'd eaten peanuts in the Store , of course . |
| 18 | Suddenly , as we were walking on , we heard the dogs barking in that frantic , menacing way that could only mean they 'd given chase . |
| 19 | But surely not as furious as he would have been afterwards , if they 'd given way to the temptations of their flesh ? |
| 20 | They 'd seen Aqib working away with his finger-nails while holding the ball in his other hand with the seam crosswise . |
| 21 | After their reconstruction , 35 witnesses called the police saying they thought they 'd seen Eila . |
| 22 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 23 | A lot of them said they 'd seen Mrs Sugar , but none of them really had , and nobody believed them . |
| 24 | Men would n't forget easily when they 'd seen Lucille . |
| 25 | Grant saw them immediately , traversing the same passage they 'd seen Forster and Lawton follow . |
| 26 | Her mind drifted back to the first day they 'd seen Crystal Springs . |
| 27 | RAF corporal John Williams and his wife Selina had told the court they 'd seen cocks fighting … as they drove past the layby . |
| 28 | They 'd seen Miss Lavant on the promenade and about the town , always walking slowly , sometimes with a neat wicker basket . |
| 29 | Little wonder they 'd created chemistry together . |
| 30 | I 'd often see birds with gut or wire wrapped around their necks or wings , or looking ill because , as I discovered later , they 'd swallowed lead shot which the anglers used to weight their lines . |