Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here they attempted to persuade consumers not to install additional appliances which would overload the mains : where they failed in this , breakdowns inevitably followed . |
| 2 | Then they launch into this routine . |
| 3 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 4 | The documents obtained in this way were stored in an archive in Salamanca ( where they remain to this day ) and , after the end of the war , were constantly referred to by the military courts trying suspected Republicans . |
| 5 | They remain like this motionless with the woman stemming any premature ejaculatory urges by squeeze control , if the need arises . |
| 6 | In the wild this may allow them to escape as the predator may lose interest in them , but in the laboratory the length of time they remain in this state before righting themselves is a good measure of their fear level . |
| 7 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 8 | And while we were , while we were there we had some invitations to , to dine out with well it was my daughter 's and we went and had a meal with them and they were quite taken back by er they lived in this little which originally I had thought was a was a er a poultry house . |
| 9 | There were twenty-seven butis in the Community , and they lived in this ought-to-be-condemned building off Stoke Newington High Street . |
| 10 | And erm , they lived in this little cottage and erm every night erm the moth , she would always stay up really late and the mother and erm her son would go to bed and she would always go out of this erm go out of the house every night and she would go , cos she had these three fingers which were blades |
| 11 | They debated unhappily , reluctant to commit themselves to an opinion , until John Prophet suggested sadly that in the circumstances it might be well to consult the archbishop of Canterbury , and in some relief they agreed on this course , and carried their problem that same afternoon to Lambeth ; where Thomas Arundel , on the force of whose word and influence they could rely , advised them , in consideration of the desperate need , to issue the required letters patent , and he would be responsible for defending their action to the king , should it need any defence . |
| 12 | One of Mr Thomas 's conditions , supported by Mrs Noble , was that Edward and Helen should not correspond when he left for Oxford , and they agreed to this for the first term . |
| 13 | They agreed to this and even gave him their headed notepaper to use in ordering . |
| 14 | In the main , staff have to complete a qualifying period of service ( often two or three years ) before they qualify for this . |
| 15 | Hundreds of applications have already been received by the Department from organisations which feel that they qualify for this largesse . |
| 16 | Any existing members who believe they qualify for this new rating category from the 1st May next should contact the Autocover staff at Frank Glennon Limited who will arrange for their premiums to be adjusted from their next renewal date . |
| 17 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 18 | ‘ What do they make at this place ? ’ asks the disapproving Greek matriarch when her grandson returns from work . |
| 19 | Forty-nine houses they wasted in this way . |
| 20 | Many of the topics they raise during this election campaign do not interest us at all . |
| 21 | Only recently has it been discovered that they come to these special places to gather specific minerals such as kaolin which neutralise the poison they have absorbed from the seeds they eat at this season of the year . |
| 22 | They compensate for this by gaining water from their food both through the workings of their powerful kidneys , which extract much of the water from the urine , and by the condensation of water during breathing . |
| 23 | But , they 're going to be made on , in fact , it 's going to be pushed rather heavily they change to this new system , and they 're going to have to meet some of the costs of development of the new system . |
| 24 | little erm you used be able to get I do n't know if you still can little wipes in little sachets and they smelled of this . |
| 25 | Like countless adverts for soap powder , shampoo , tropical fruit drinks , deodorants , which had been absorbed into her memory during hours of television watching , the world they inhabited in this fantasy was innocent and carefree , a garden of Eden before the Fall . |
| 26 | While second homes consist merely of properties no longer wanted as first homes they cause relatively few problems ; but when they grow beyond this , political , social , economic and environmental problems arise . |
| 27 | Well they , they grow from this er green to white to red and then finally black , do n't like black berries Stefan so that would be a no no as far as I was concerned in my garden . |
| 28 | The meanings and purposes they attach to this behaviour are largely inconsequential . |
| 29 | They joked about this , but so it was . |
| 30 | When I ask the people of the estate what they want from this election some say they want Cheviot to rebuild it and others that it would be better grassed over . |