Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fascination of this paper is that they bring together philosophy and psychology empirically in a way that has value for the busy social work practitioner . |
| 2 | They are all hoofed mammals , with two main toes of roughly equal size ; and they are all ( with the singular exception of the pig , which is an omnivore ) herbivores — they eat only vegetation . |
| 3 | They sit here day after day , gazing out into the middle distance , letting their problems stockpile to nothing more complicated than yet another sunny day on the porch of a listing old house . |
| 4 | They 'll tell y' they 've got culture as they sit there drinkin' keg beer out of plastic glasses . |
| 5 | Ask ministers privately what they perceive as Labour 's terminal weakness , and they will reply : Neil Kinnock . |
| 6 | The antennae also show a very specific response : they sense only bombykol , and are not stimulated by even very similar molecules . |
| 7 | Fetishised by her additions — erotic snapshots pinned to a bodice , a pointing finger , a ritualistic series of omens fastened to a skirt — they presage both loss and enlightenment in the cathartic climax of Messager 's bleak black comedy of passion . |
| 8 | That makes them victim and hero at the same time , which makes them irresistible — they command both protection and admiration . |
| 9 | It is important to bear in mind that these statistics are collected on a changing basis , even though all derive from taxes at death ; they cover both consumption and production property . |
| 10 | They record only action actually taken in the shape of orders and letters sent out ; they tell us nothing of discussions about policy , of general decisions taken , of advice tendered to the Queen . |
| 11 | and they stand there sort of bouncing up and down on this canvass thing , you know , sort of like this then she goes ooh ooh , and her bleeding leg comes up in the air |
| 12 | They tell only part of the story , and leave out any elements which do not fit into their chosen line of argument . |
| 13 | I do n't think they question necessarily assimilation of the settlement now , but assimilation in the settlement in the it becomes developed . |
| 14 | If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job . |
| 15 | Unlike the cycads , they produce both pollen and egg-bearing cones on the same tree . |
| 16 | So they feel really part of er part of it . |
| 17 | Although open tipped tubes and intraluminal strain gauges have been widely used for the measurement of contractile activity in the colon , it has been argued on theoretical grounds that they detect only lumen occluding contractions , and therefore underestimate the incidence of contractile activity . |
| 18 | The activities of Whips are a mystery to most people outside Parliament but it is known that they do occasionally cajole , threaten and even bully MPs who might not toe the party line . |
| 19 | I do n't know what they do all day , I do n't really . ’ |
| 20 | They also need booze to stop them from thinking about what they do all day . |
| 21 | Common to these patches is the claim that they deliver either nicotine or ‘ nicotine extract ’ and the promise of great savings over patch products ‘ sold by our competitors . ’ |
| 22 | They carry both cargo and people ; the two travel under much the same conditions , and are generally indistinguishable by journey 's end . |
| 23 | Furious at what they call roughshod treatment at the hands of their area tourist board executives over the merger issue , members of the Dunoon and District Hoteliers Association have taken legal advice which they say has confirmed that rules have been violated . |
| 24 | yeah , makes you I ca n't see what 's good its doing twenty years afterwards , the people had time to think about it and use their memories for twenty years , nineteen seventy-two it happened and they 've just sort of done it . |
| 25 | Erm , the particular one I 'm focusing on here is sort of the , the vision screening part of it cos the assessment of work stations is gon na be a longer term thing , we 're going back to pre where they 've actually sort of ticked the various boxes on the sheets and said this is like that and so we are collating that information currently . |
| 26 | What they 're doing is actually going a lot further , and supply us all the their ac accounts and details , and they 've actually sort of called it a grant for partial costs of materials , right , so we 're actually |
| 27 | The combs do not hang vertically like those of honey-bees and they contain neither honey nor pollen , for wasps are not vegetarians but primarily carnivores . |
| 28 | If you look at most textbooks of ten or fifteen years ago in your library , you will find that they contain mainly text . |
| 29 | Throughout the growing period they require both sunshine and water and must be protected from diseases which can affect the crop . |
| 30 | They reflect both class consciousness and a specific ideology of power . |