Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They flung each other off and stared for an instant , each of them aware that he was known , each conscious that this recognition made many things plain . |
| 2 | But these ‘ philosophical ’ analyses of society were essentially based on speculation , on dubious and untested assumptions about the motives of human beings in their behaviour , and on undisciplined theorising , and they lacked systematic analysis of the structure and workings of societies . |
| 3 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 4 | Second , about the same time , there was a view in Europe that non-Europeans were mentally degenerate because they lacked Western culture . |
| 5 | Their attention wandered and they lacked any discipline to learn . ’ |
| 6 | Often they lacked day-to-day knowledge of the firms they had invested in , and had a tendency to sell their shares the instant a firm hit trouble . |
| 7 | They might be short of one or two quality players , but in such a yo-yo season Villa have as good a chance as any , particularly if Dalian Atkinson returns from injury to give them the sort of finishing power they lacked last night . |
| 8 | Or are they reflecting growing disaffection among scientists with recent changes in their profession ? |
| 9 | They fear long-term pension levels could be affected . |
| 10 | German software products company SAP AG , Walldorf , and Microsoft Corp have scheduled a press conference in Munich today , at which they are expected to announce ‘ something beyond ’ the agreement to put SAP 's R/2 and R/3 suites up under Windows NT , which they announced this week . |
| 11 | If they failed another night in the open would probably be Hugh 's last . |
| 12 | If they failed another night in the open would probably be Hugh 's last . |
| 13 | But the Muslims , though they despise Syrian rule in Lebanon , need Syria 's presence to ensure that real political reform takes place . |
| 14 | Indeed , when Jessica had locked her car with all the others at the Moira roundabout — travel-sharing , she assumed , hardheaded Ulstermen saving on the petrol — Rory had walked up to her and kissed her lightly on the mouth as if they owned each other . |
| 15 | it was , it was Romana 's mum and dad , I think they owned that row of houses and the shop |
| 16 | ‘ They owned this kind of enclave on the coast just outside Ajaccio — like a kind of tourist village — that 's where they kept the women , really , while they were away on business . |
| 17 | They lay that way for long moments , until the race of their hearts slowed , and then Nicolo brought her head to his shoulder . |
| 18 | But however enthusiastically they cultivated this aura , Australians were bound to feel themselves second-class citizens . |
| 19 | They gain wide experience of different types of hardware and many varied programming languages . |
| 20 | School leavers , or inexperienced people joining the industry often get jobs in riding schools or competition yards where they gain practical experience . |
| 21 | ‘ They gain more experience by tackling the job themselves . ’ |
| 22 | They gain more fulfilment from the jobs and in the end , backed by a high level of innovation , they produce a better product . |
| 23 | They met Prime Minister Metaxas in Greece , Kemal Ataturk in Turkey , and King Boris in Bulgaria . |
| 24 | You see , I was with her when they met one day in the rose-garden and I watched their faces as they talked together . ’ |
| 25 | Last year they met Civil Service in the preliminaries and the year before it was Muckross . |
| 26 | The Pims dashed around all parts of the aquarium having brief but energetic skirmishes when they met each other , but no actual physical damage was suffered from the skirmishes . |
| 27 | But if they met each other , Lewis … ? |
| 28 | When they met this month , Mr Kohl made it clear that he wanted an agreement on EMU that does not oblige Britain to accept a single currency before it is ready to do so . |
| 29 | By 0900hrs the Japanese were back to raid other specified targets , this time they met some opposition in the air , several American fighters were now airborne but the pilots had no combat experience so the Japanese had the advantage . |
| 30 | They met some time in ‘ thirty-eight , I gather . |