Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herbs are one of the best groups of plants to grow in containers on the whole , as they mostly take very kindly to this form of cultivation . |
| 2 | Women can drive cars , taxis , buses , trucks , diggers , lawn-mowers — that sort of thing , though in the West they mostly do n't ( except cars ) because of tradition . ’ |
| 3 | They mostly do not adequately safeguard pupils against a casual , almost literalist , understanding of symbol . |
| 4 | Singing is almost entirely confined to breeding grounds , most singers are males , and they mostly sing alone . |
| 5 | Animals also have tensions when they are in activity , but they instinctively know how to relax . |
| 6 | Furthermore , it is utter nonsense in any event to turn the mere similarity of habitation into a similarity of personality , for that would be to argue the proposition that if two people occupy the same room they thereby become exactly like each other in their minds and in their actions . |
| 7 | In this sense , they arguably form collectively a sampling of the crucial foundation , at grass-roots level , of Britain 's political system . |
| 8 | Tonight , though , they rarely come across as well , because instrumental fluff and dead wood have crept in between the sharp spikes . |
| 9 | Although they pay up to $500 toward a crown , they rarely cover less costly services that would obviate the need for one . |
| 10 | Adults are easy to keep in aquaria for they rarely climb out if well-treated , and will breed freely in captivity . |
| 11 | They rarely look anywhere near as good as the real thing , but they will be cheaper , and easier to keep clean . |
| 12 | ( The more you practise , the more ‘ real ’ the experiences tend to become , but they rarely seem as ‘ real ’ as our waking life . ) |
| 13 | In other rocks , water can hardly flow at all : clay has very small pores , whereas pumice is full of good-sized holes but they rarely link up . |
| 14 | Although the differences between these two types of weathering are distinct in theory , in practice they rarely operate separately ; rather , the effects of one aid the operation of the other . |
| 15 | No matter how vivid the TV reports or press articles , they rarely penetrate as deeply . |
| 16 | They are characterised by having no mouth and an enormous nose — to eat , they presumably snort up their food . |
| 17 | It is important that they slowly build up a historical vocabulary , and learn some of the technical terms that will allow them to talk about what they can see . |
| 18 | The companies do promise existing software will be binary compatible with whatever they eventually come out with . |
| 19 | We calculate that on an estimate of what we think has happened to employment in the quarter erm and that calculation tells us , and it seems to be re reasonably right in the sense that it 's got a , a good tr a good record of tracking erm the official numbers when they eventually come out . |
| 20 | You must take care when mixing thick materials and the more dainty , thin , petals , as the thicker grasses can prevent the glass coming into contact with the flowers ; so that they eventually curl up . |
| 21 | Wanting to remain a child becomes unfeasible even to the most stupid old beard at the age of about 35 ; they eventually give up and accept they were born to be schoolteachers . |
| 22 | His wife , 54-year-old singer Tonia Bern , lives 6,000 miles away in Hollywood and they only get together every few months . |
| 23 | but they only go over once in the Grand National . |
| 24 | The ones able to secure ‘ sugar daddies ’ fooled the poor men into thinking that there was a Tiller rule that they only go out in twos and threes and so managed to get meals for their best friends as well . |
| 25 | And they only go in and . |
| 26 | only the contractors do and even they only know when they go on site so , but we , we sort of say you do this , you do that and then we contract to who can do it , there 's some of them by er |
| 27 | They only know well you either have this option paying this amount , that option paying that amount or that option paying that amount and which one do you want to have . |
| 28 | These publications are very valuable , even when they require correction , but they only make up a tiny part of the huge body of statistical information now available in print . |
| 29 | These are so faint and they only show up because of the long time exposure . |
| 30 | They only show how it can be studied in some cases . |