Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pulse-generating species emit such short and irregular clicks that they rarely jam each other and most gregarious electric fish are of this type . |
| 2 | I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention . |
| 3 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 4 | Léon Blum , the new prime Minister , said of people like Cohn-Casson : ‘ They secretly curse those who put them in the hands of secular enemies . ’ |
| 5 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
| 6 | They only hear half of what God has been saying . |
| 7 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 8 | And er yes , they only take that . |
| 9 | From now on , they only want each other . |
| 10 | With all the macros together on one page , someone doing accounts where they only want some of the standard sheets , can just choose those that are relevant . ’ |
| 11 | They only relinquish this extreme form of isolation for a brief coming together of the sexes during the breeding season and then return to their separate lives once more . |
| 12 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |
| 13 | They only do that to scare you . |
| 14 | And they only , they o they only do same job do n't they ? |
| 15 | Erm and the limit was five thousand pounds for one year but I think they only pay half the fees or something of whatever course it is . |
| 16 | The insulation panels for Rockwell sheet are profiled to match the sheet and as well as providing thermal insulation they greatly reduce any risk of condensation forming on the underside of the sheet . |
| 17 | The hypersurface on which they mutually focus each other , which is given by or , is here given by which determines the horizons of the Kerr solution . |
| 18 | Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . " |
| 19 | The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnamese frontier is the arbitrary point at which South-East gives way to North-East Asia — the industrial powerhouse of the Pacific , the region that most economists and businessmen mean when they idly refer these days to ‘ Asia ’ . |
| 20 | When they meet one another , they gingerly caress each other 's long legs and only after a great deal of hesitation do they come to closer quarters . |
| 21 | None of the operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) , in so far as they affect the minors , can make a minor of order r + 1 nonzero , nor make the minor of order r vanish , since they merely condense these minors . |
| 22 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
| 23 | He says there 's no end of traffic that comes through — articulated lorries — especially with the new charge on the bridge and they just come this way . |
| 24 | If she is training , they just arrange another time and she does n't think she is missing out . |
| 25 | They just make these conditions appear simpler . |
| 26 | ‘ They just put those bits in to make you think you 're really getting meat , ’ snorted Billy , ‘ You know , like eggshells in the war . ’ |
| 27 | So they just shove some tape over it . |
| 28 | They just pick same extent the Mini does n't it ? |
| 29 | Oh no , they could have a sho , er they have , they agree they 've got a say but they just feel that everything is decided so what is the point ? |
| 30 | ‘ They just smell that way . ’ |