Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SLOUGH moved a step closer to achieving a League and Cup double when they qualified for today 's final against Hightown by convincingly beating Blueharts 11–1 in the semi-final of the All England Women 's Hockey Association Cup at Milton Keynes Sports Club yesterday . |
| 2 | Well what did folk do when they got to then ? |
| 3 | now , I do n't know if they 've got them ones in here , what they got in here I wonder if my husband will remember to get me one this year ? |
| 4 | Erm i then all of sudden the tiles they got in there are they ? |
| 5 | Here something of a special case , aliens were common in most maritime shires , chiefly in seaports , like Great Yarmouth and Rye , though here and there penetrating farther inland , to work , for example , at ironmaking in the Weald of Sussex , a county where they amounted to about 3 per cent of all taxpayers . |
| 6 | JR sent for the latest aged debt report , quickly extracted from it the top 20 customers and found what he now expected to find — that more than 80% ; of the total debts were due form these , although by number they amounted to considerably less than 20% ; of the total customer file . |
| 7 | Together they account for nearly two-thirds of the entire temporary labour force but rather under half of total employment . |
| 8 | They account for over a third of the western world 's output of mechanical engineering products and should , says the bulletin , maintain this position . |
| 9 | The company claims that servers will account for $1,000m of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 10 | The company claims that servers will account for $1bn of its business by the end of the year — they account for around a third of Sun 's revenue now . |
| 11 | Power plants are responsible for most of the pollution : they account for about 90 per cent of all the emissions of sulphur dioxide , 40 per cent of nitrogen dioxide and around 60-70 per cent of dust . |
| 12 | Yet it remains true that unless the typologies are elaborated beyond a mere classificatory and descriptive labelling of different situations — that is , by attempting to specify the conditions under which each type develops — they remain at only a very preliminary stage of theorising . |
| 13 | First , a sample of 10 9 atoms is loaded into a magneto-optical trap , where they remain for just over 1 second . |
| 14 | The Royal Bank saw no need ( indeed had no right ) to alter them and so they remain until today . |
| 15 | Around the time of birth , oocytes enter the resting diplotene or dictyotene stage , where they remain until shortly before ovulation . |
| 16 | Most people they sell to probably ca n't play that well . |
| 17 | Clarkson and Wilberforce , partly because they lived for so long , frequently sent off autographs with motto attached and Clarkson received and met requests for locks of his thinning hair . |
| 18 | Many men found girls in town with whom they lived without necessarily getting married : there were numerous songs about town women and how they compared with those from the rural areas . |
| 19 | No , not Not they goes to now . |
| 20 | This was the nature of the Lady 's eyes : they were bright green , lacking iris or pupil , and they glowed from within . |
| 21 | We asked Gloucester 's stamp collectors what they made of today 's break with tradition . |
| 22 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 23 | Might the university expect better grades than they asked for previously ? |
| 24 | I know that today 's announcement will be a disappointment for them , and that those on the Tyne recognise that the response to all that they asked for previously was fair play . |
| 25 | There was a cry , and then the wheels thumped again as they passed across either feet or ankles . |
| 26 | Below : Buffalo 's officers gave a rousing cheer to the Duke of Edinburgh and Lord Sterling as they passed by abroad the Royal yacht , Britannia |
| 27 | They sold for twice the price of a ‘ black label ’ record . |
| 28 | I do not claim any more for these criteria than that they raise at least the possibility of a belief being affirmable . |
| 29 | How many would they eat in How many would six swallows east in one hour ? |
| 30 | You see there , there was a er not paying for it , asking about it , the finance committee how very cold it was for the elderly and they sit in there while some get taken home and |