Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like symbiotic grubs they lay twisted together in a ball , until Mangar-Kunjer-Kunja appeared in the guise of a lizard . |
| 2 | With no high level of education they lay claim instead to ‘ experience ’ — an intimate familiarity with the way things have been done in the past — and ‘ common sense ’ — a rich fund of practical knowledge about the job and its problems which inculcates a sense of the reasonable . |
| 3 | They lay packed together in the gloom , trying to make themselves comfortable on the wires . |
| 4 | Segura believes that players must have enough pride when they lose to find out why they lost . |
| 5 | Armed with their newest inventions ( a super-duper jeep and hi-tech helicopter ) they vow to take on the forces of evil and blast their way to freedom — so get blasting ! |
| 6 | They eat standing up in the kitchen . |
| 7 | Some individuals have no worries ; they have planned the event for years , made maximum pension contributions , carefully invested their savings , covered themselves and family in insurance policies , budgeted ahead and can even gleefully tell you about the exotic round-the-world trip they intend to take just as soon as their new life begins . |
| 8 | What we do n't know is what they intend to do now that they are here . |
| 9 | This afternoon they announced they intend to adjourn tomorrow night 's AGM . |
| 10 | They intend to carry on their protest indefinitely . ’ |
| 11 | They intend to carry out Lise and Colas by the same means . |
| 12 | They intend to keep up the pressure , because I understand that the player can be lured to Old Trafford . |
| 13 | In spite of Home Office advice to stay at home , they intend to try again . |
| 14 | These modules will be suitable for students employed within the travel and tourism industry , especially if they intend working abroad . |
| 15 | All trainee managers follow the same route ; how fast and how far they develop depends entirely on their individual performance . |
| 16 | they change hang on |
| 17 | Typically , the reptilian egg is laid on land and is encased in a shell to prevent its liquids from evaporating , but those eggs that are kept within the female until they hatch have either very thin shells or no shells at all . |
| 18 | The subordinate females do have one or two ways of retaliating — they tend to go on laying longer and produce more eggs than the dominant female , and they also produce the occasional late egg some time after they have laid the rest of their clutch . |
| 19 | And the West peal comes appeal and the West 's heard becomes a heard and the one sort of difference that 's still there and it may take quite while to go is that the East Mainland when they 're saying a sentence they tend to go up at the end of the sentence the voice rises . |
| 20 | I would like to go to the town today , and she 's awfully she 's no the day and they tend to go up at the end . |
| 21 | Oh , do n't really know , they tend to go up sort of two |
| 22 | They tend to go always to the top of the |
| 23 | The other three forces are either short range , or are sometimes attractive and sometimes repulsive , so they tend to cancel out . |
| 24 | In some prognathous insects they tend to lie more forward on the ventral wall of the head ( see p.29 ) |
| 25 | If normal good sleepers are woken from Stage I sleep or Stage 2 sleep , and asked whether they were awake or asleep , they tend to report definitely feeling asleep only In Stage 2 sleep , " 2 although this is not necessarily true for poor sleepers , who may deny they were asleep even when the EEG traces show clear signs of Stage 2 sleep . |
| 26 | on my left said earlier , and wo wo women have a tendency to say yes to everything that they can do , just because they can do it , and they know they can but they tend to heap up far too many obligations , and that causes many carers |
| 27 | Erm looking now at page three hundred and fifty seven er paragraph seven three two oh seven three one and seven three two , page three hundred and fifty seven where the report makes the point that er when legal proceedings are entered into they tend to create further barriers and make it m less and less likely that th there can be conciliation between estranged partners erm and paragraph seven three two points out a growing need fo or speaks of a growing need for conciliation . |
| 28 | However , even when legal principles are committed to one constitutional document , set out in legal codes or reiterated by judges over time , they tend to remain highly ambiguous and not worth the paper they are printed on until somebody — the judiciary — interprets and defers to them in their judgments , and somebody else — the executive — enforces those judgments . |
| 29 | In the main , they are instilled with the pragmatic games of pursuit they play with the local petty thief ; and if asked to consider the wider nature of their role , they tend to fall back on protestations of political neutrality . |
| 30 | and solids and nets , they tend to turn up , right , and what about sets ? |