Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in countries with laws that provide some degree of protection for marine mammals , fishermen are often reluctant to report incidental catches of dolphins or porpoises because they fear having restrictions placed on their use of set-nets . |
| 2 | and not the back of the photograph , otherwise you 'll get yourself in all sorts of difficulties and it may make a nice editorial , nice letters to the editor , but it would be very irritating to the editor , because they hate having mistakes pointed out to them , and that 's picture perspective . |
| 3 | yeah and they sell running shoes as well . |
| 4 | But the action they have taken , and threatened to take , in Derry indicates that they intend to force others to share it too . |
| 5 | The way the media cover abuse , they tend to sensationalize events , but the emotional effect is much worse than the actual abuse . |
| 6 | ‘ The way the media cover abuse they tend to sensationalize events , but the emotional effect is much worse ’ |
| 7 | The result is that although prosecutors may direct investigations , they tend to leave matters to the police . |
| 8 | Deep wounds must be stitched together to help the healing process and they tend to leave scars . |
| 9 | Parasites such as tapeworms are enemies of their hosts , and hosts are enemies of parasites since they tend to evolve measures to resist them . |
| 10 | As most actors are looking for someone they 'll be happy to hang around with for years to come , they tend to choose subjects they like and approve of . |
| 11 | And indeed as people get old or ill I find again from personal experience that they tend to give things to several people . |
| 12 | In the , in the current Middle East erm so this pattern certainly applies to Judaism , not to all religions , he 's not saying that all religions have to undergo persecution in order to as it were flourish , but some religions do and perhaps the characteristic Judaism or at least this kind of monotheism is these kind of religions tend to be intolerant and single-mindedly , tend to say that we know the truth , everybody else is wrong and consequently they tend to persecute others and get persecuted and this leads to these periods of suppression , but there 's a tendency for this kind of return of repress just as Mike was saying , his very brilliant analogy he suggested the French Revolution when the students put the barricade up in the same place or so the erm Freud 's idea is that the things that happened in that first traumatic period back in Ancient Egypt and for example erm he said this is why the modern erm Jews insist on circumcision because the Ancient Egyptians did and this is , this is correct . |
| 13 | They tend to ask questions in t in an attempt to find out what is going on . |
| 14 | I arrange a special thing for them , and they tend to do things very quickly , and take only one or two lessons . |
| 15 | They [ theoretical differences ] are not resolved really ; they continue as quite big arguments ; and there are quite big camps really of those who believe in theory and those who believe in scholarship , I suppose ; and we pretend that you can just muddle along and it does n't matter , but the crunch comes at things like marking exam papers , because if you 've got a student who 's heavily into theory , writing for a marker who 's heavily not into theory , then they tend to say things like ‘ oh , he 's just read Terry Eagleton , so blah blah blah ’ or ‘ she 's just read Cate Belsey and regurgitated that ’ so someone can get a bad mark because they 've written for the wrong person . |
| 16 | The head of the figure at the extreme left of the Demoiselles is , like that of her companions in the centre of the picture , expressionless and impassive but now has about it a mask-like quality that recalls a wide variety of African tribal masks in which the component parts of the head and face have about them exactly the same quality of definition , although here the similarities may possibly be simply affinities rather than derivations ; the heads of many of the paintings of late 1906 had also been severe and mask-like although they tend to resemble sculptures in stone , whereas the head of the demoiselle in question looks more wooden in both colour and texture . |
| 17 | I 'm sure there are lots of responsible Rottweiler owners , but they tend to put dogs before children . |
| 18 | They 're done because the old-fashioned way of doing a , putting something together is a paste-up job , you 've got all these stories filed about all sorts of things , and then some editorial chap or chapess sits down with sort of paste and scissors and cuts the things off , and they tend to cut things off the bottom to make it all fit until it feels about right . |
| 19 | We 're , they tend to buy houses where er others , there are already er houses of the same community . |
| 20 | Warm-blooded animals do not have this constraint , although they tend to avoid extremes of temperature . |
| 21 | When a swarm of bees leave to found a new colony , they tend to build combs with the same orientation , say east-west , as the combs in their parent hive . |
| 22 | When women describe their sexual fantasies , they tend to depict women suffering various degrees of powerlessness , humiliation or pain , similar to those fantasies described by men . |
| 23 | They tend to have skills which are often not immediately available on the external labour market and their reliability and competence is not in question . |
| 24 | None of these new titles claim to be feminist , rather they tend to address fears and desires hitherto ignored . |
| 25 | They tend to favour mountains , moorland and sea cliffs in the breeding seasons , and estuaries and coasts in winter . |
| 26 | We realised that there could be some difficulties , and some apparent injustices might show up , but due to great consultative work put in by Councillors , and Mrs , often against great vilification and personal attack , many per problems were sorted out as they arose but we saw that i in April motions in amendments we see that it takes three full paragraphs of the amended motion to see that they deign to welcome initiatives which extend participation in decision making to schools , governors and parents . |
| 27 | While the arms are still in the air , they make circling motions , first in a clockwise , then in an anti-clockwise direction , about 20 times . |
| 28 | ‘ And they make honking noises ! ’ he said . |
| 29 | ‘ I do n't know why they bother to have gates at this school , ’ remarked Mildred , as another three pupils soared over the wall on their brooms . |
| 30 | Participants might then address themselves as to why and how they want to use videos , and what they are trying to do ; make an explanatory film of the group , document important meetings , preserve visual and oral material for community archives etc . |