Example sentences of "they [verb] [pers pn] [adj -er] " in BNC.
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| 1 | USE GAMES … can they make them harder ? … can they understand each others ' rules ? |
| 2 | USE GAMES can they make them harder ? can they understand each other 's rules ? |
| 3 | I know , but it 's too dear , I looked at that and thought it would be nice to have your name on a brick , but to me twenty pound , if they made it cheaper more people would buy it would n't they ? , what building is it ? |
| 4 | They made it worse ’ |
| 5 | And they made it shorter for that reason . |
| 6 | Later on , I learned about tarot cards and ouija boards and just drifted into using these props , because they made it easier to see and feel these things . ’ |
| 7 | When visible , they make it easier to control the typing of text with complicated layouts , such as tables . |
| 8 | In doing this , they make it easier to understand why some form of local government continues to survive as more than simply a creature of the centre . |
| 9 | If parents keep cool and explain fully why they are saying no , they make it easier for their daughter to back down without losing face . |
| 10 | As they are used single-handed , they make it easier to dead-head flowers , prune shrubs , cut up chicken for the barbecue , and shape materials like leather , canvas , etc , for craftwork . |
| 11 | They make it easier for teachers to use the video machine without being tied to its side whenever they want to stop or start it . |
| 12 | This was the second time they had done the walk , and they found it tougher than in previous years . |
| 13 | And that they found it easier when they that that English was English and Orcadian was Orcadian . |
| 14 | It 's just the way they , they , they found it easier umm |
| 15 | Not only have they made it worse , they knew they would ; even if they genuinely thought their policies were somehow better for Britain as a whole , they knew damn well they 'd put hundreds of thousands of people out of work , and Saatchi & Saatchi must have known that , too , if they 'd bothered to think . |
| 16 | Ken 's agreed to run on our policies and our ticket , ’ even though he acknowledges that they suit him better than Ken . |
| 17 | They like theirs stronger , more bitter , thinner and preferably cold . |
| 18 | Britain after 1945 is full of people who live alone because they like it , or at least because they like it better than any of the available alternatives . |
| 19 | cos they pledge to you that they get it cleaner than anything else |
| 20 | Besides , once they 've gone into mourning , they find it cheaper to stay that way . |
| 21 | Now it happens that when some substances crystallize they find it easier to do so if some kind of irregularity is present . |
| 22 | And they find it easier to come here now . |
| 23 | They find it harder to appreciate the successes of the mentally handicapped because they do not conform to their concept of success . |
| 24 | Their coordination is less well-developed , too : they find it harder to turn somersaults or hold a pencil properly for long . |
| 25 | These women he slept with casually when he was touring — they knew him better than she , because they got an instant , naked impact . |
| 26 | They liked him well enough , however , when they knew him better . |
| 27 | Afterwards she felt that Sarah had deliberately steered the conversation away from Terry , and recalling her remark that they knew him better than she did , Anne felt uneasy without quite knowing why . |
| 28 | The Christians soon acquired a reputation even among the pagans for being generous with their money ; they thought it better to give than to enquire too closely into the merits of the recipients , and were therefore occasionally easy game for confidence tricksters . |
| 29 | If the authorities refrain from using force because they think it wiser to use other means , the effect is often as follows : … to prevent or resist violence , the governing class may use guile , cunning , fraud and corruption — in short . |
| 30 | They treat us worse than their women . |