Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 2 | Pulse-generating species emit such short and irregular clicks that they rarely jam each other and most gregarious electric fish are of this type . |
| 3 | With five regulars missing they rarely tested former colleague Woods in the Wednesday goal and it was Sheridan , another of Hillsborough 's former Forest contingent , who set them on the way to victory . |
| 4 | I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention . |
| 5 | This was fodder for the trainees , and they rarely got much else . |
| 6 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
| 7 | More than this , even with earlier memories they rarely made any systematic attempt to gather evidence of later life from childhood memories about grandparents or old people in the neighbourhood . |
| 8 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 9 | One night they secretly told all employees , except Peter to leave early . |
| 10 | Léon Blum , the new prime Minister , said of people like Cohn-Casson : ‘ They secretly curse those who put them in the hands of secular enemies . ’ |
| 11 | They eventually lost that game although the 3–1 scoreline does n't tell the full story of bad luck and missed chances . |
| 12 | Their programme opened with a performance of Beethoven 's Opus 18 no. 6 Quartet in which , with impeccable balance , they delicately explored all the works ' subtle nuances . |
| 13 | Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years . |
| 14 | They only hear half of what God has been saying . |
| 15 | They only saw each other . |
| 16 | Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me . |
| 17 | It was on the agenda and at seven o'clock the at night they eh they adjourned the meeting cos they only got half way through the agenda |
| 18 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 19 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 20 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 21 | They only said these things because I am a woman , and a Catholic , and they do n't want a Catholic queen in Scotland , they want a Protestant king . |
| 22 | Cos I when I went , not last time the time before , they only had that thirty nine P and I would n't pay it . |
| 23 | And er yes , they only take that . |
| 24 | he only done , they only done that to learn you a lesson . |
| 25 | No , they , they only done that because it would 've been hard for us I think , in the |
| 26 | From now on , they only want each other . |
| 27 | With all the macros together on one page , someone doing accounts where they only want some of the standard sheets , can just choose those that are relevant . ’ |
| 28 | They only relinquish this extreme form of isolation for a brief coming together of the sexes during the breeding season and then return to their separate lives once more . |
| 29 | I suspect that rather than looking north , the people of the north-east will look south and say , ’ Hang on , why are they only paying such a small amount in the midlands or south when people to the north of us , who are experiencing the full generosity of the Labour party 's form of government , are paying much more ? ’ |
| 30 | For one mad moment he thought of climbing out of the seat and sliding down a girder to safety : ‘ No , you berk , they only do that in films ! ’ |