Example sentences of "they [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they met a few days later in Benghazi they quarrelled and the Zliten boy knifed the Zuwayi in the arm . |
| 2 | They expected a few dozen requests , but boxes were eventually sited at 100 farms and two years on experts are thrilled with the results . |
| 3 | When that did n't halt the disintegration they got a few able-bodied men from the village to help , but after a while it was obvious that much more radical repair was needed . |
| 4 | But er , if they got a few more of those it might help . |
| 5 | They got no more sympathy from the global banking system than you or I would ( or did ) in similar circumstances . |
| 6 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 7 | They 'll go into that exam without doing , alright they dance the same as you |
| 8 | The reader who returns frequently to the poem , and ( in the way of obsessive readers ) delights in noticing meanings potentially nestling within meanings , will begin to be persuaded , by and by , that these hints of battle and brutality are not to be ignored ; yet they remain no more than hints , shadows of meaning cast by a powerful text . |
| 9 | Once constructed , sanctuaries and temples of whatever cult continued to receive votive offerings , and the richer and more prestigious they became the more emulation they aroused and the greater the inflow of precious substances . |
| 10 | Is it that would they make the same kind of comment to one of their male students , like ‘ that 's a nice jumper you 've got on ’ , something like that ? |
| 11 | We hear that they made a few proposals of an undetermined nature which we are sure do not involve recording contracts … lives of the rich and famous , eh ? |
| 12 | Absolutely , just to make more points , they made a few things up , ex , absolutely . |
| 13 | In many ways the amoral blood baths were preferable because they made no such pretence . |
| 14 | There is a tacit acceptance that , because men are generally more successful in material terms than women , women could become more successful if they made the same educational choices as men . |
| 15 | The Polish presence in the city may have been small , but they made the most of it . |
| 16 | And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England . |
| 17 | Fortunately they asked no more questions , and were still discussing the wonderful things I had seen , when Joe came in from the forge . |
| 18 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 19 | They checked the few patients in the waiting-room , and Kathleen got Amy to sort them into priority , talking through the decision-making process as she did so . |
| 20 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , as British buy-outs come firmly into vogue , they raise the same question that early American ones did . |
| 22 | Raith Rovers are hardly world beaters but then they haf a little help from the referee who gave them a dodgy penalty and turn down two good penalty appeals in the last two minutes . |
| 23 | They sit no more at familiar tables of home ; |
| 24 | But when such people are exposed to a high-fat Western diet , they develop the same type of preferences as Westerners . |
| 25 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 26 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 27 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 28 | He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features . |
| 29 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
| 30 | The difference was , of course , that they shared the same land mass , and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks . |