Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some camps Red Cross parcels arrived less regularly than in others and when they failed altogether people talked about food all the time instead of , as usually , about food or football or politics or the theatre . |
| 2 | The closer they crept -both morning and belief — the more he regretted shunning the assassin when it had so plainly wanted his company . |
| 3 | En route to his room they met only Roger Freeman , the Minister for Public Transport , and thus a ministerial colleague of Harvey 's , who was on his way to Archer 's party . |
| 4 | The country was green and flat and featureless as they got nearer Hackballs Cross , with high hedges and few signs of human habitation . |
| 5 | There was still much danger : the palace was heavily guarded , and even if they got away King Minos had many warships which could chase and sink them . |
| 6 | It says , and when they got there lot of these kids were dirty they had head lice |
| 7 | There are many crimes which are hard to prove but they remain nonetheless crimes . |
| 8 | They bring together students and young managers from over 100 leading UK companies in a series of simulated work situations and case studies , aimed at giving students an appreciation of management functions , problems and decision-making . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They bring together people with a shared experience of suffering the same problems . |
| 11 | Parents allow children to be involved in prostitution because they bring in money . |
| 12 | They bring in Edward Cooke on the wing , Bill Freeman at scrum half , Mike Ruthen at lock and Stuart Cameron at prop . |
| 13 | Both the Right and the Left share the same awe at the thought of the miners on the move — they bring down governments , they are the labour movement 's prizefighters , our local heroes . |
| 14 | Without a game last week , they bring back Mark Willis and Andrew Vincent for league action . |
| 15 | Ghosts they may be but they bring back memories of broken hearts , foul deeds , sinister minds , and souls stained with the blackness of hell . |
| 16 | When writers go abroad they bring back ideas , understandably enough , and the Russian souvenir shop is no less full of wonders for having had its door opened further . |
| 17 | They bring back tales which they relate over the dinner table at Blackfriars . ’ |
| 18 | They sell off things , you know . |
| 19 | When they lived together Paul had explained the merits of plastic entertaining . |
| 20 | They won their obscenity trial but poverty drove them to a caravan beside a Methodist chapel where they lived off skips , meeting other swinging exiles and learning how much people waste . |
| 21 | They concerned principally profitability and factors such as optimal vessel size . |
| 22 | Under new disputes procedures , ( i ) competition cases would be handled by the EC Commission and the ECJ if they involved companies from both the EC and EFTA ( and by EFTA only if they concerned only EFTA companies ) ; ( ii ) disagreements over the operation of the EEA would go to a joint EEA political committee , with either party having the right to seek binding arbitration if the issue were unresolved ; and ( iii ) the ECJ would have sole powers to rule on the interpretation of EEA laws , while EFTA courts would give their " best endeavours " to comply with such rulings . |
| 23 | Of course they did not produce an abstract treatise on Freedom , in which they laid out principles of action in deductive orderliness . |
| 24 | Thereafter they became briefly lovers and lasting friends . |
| 25 | " Eventually , they became almost prisoners , answerable for their every movement . " |
| 26 | If they stood apart from their era , assuming human nature can ever do this , their fear was that they would have faded away as irrelevant oddities ; if on the other hand they became fully part of their century their fear was that they would not be giving an alternate witness , another voice . |
| 27 | Once they realised how risk had suddenly escalated they took steps to cut down their ‘ book ’ . |
| 28 | The following dusk , then , they rode down Eskside , a reinforced company . |
| 29 | And do they make up verses and things for it ? |
| 30 | When they did n't get the answers they wanted , they made up theories of their own . |