Example sentences of "they [verb] signs [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when , on their leader 's orders , they went to search the huts and hovels and woods beside and ahead of them to find signs of retreat or of ambush that the news they brought back seemed to unsettle their leader and the noblemen from Northumbria and from Fife whom he conferred with . |
| 2 | Several of them showed signs of injury , leading to claims in the US and the UK that they had been coerced into making their statements . |
| 3 | A psychologist will keep tabs on teams of youngsters and will stop the operation if they show signs of stress . |
| 4 | The second , and the one usually chosen by the authors , is to grow up a mixture of different species in variable numbers until they show signs of pairing and wanting to breed . |
| 5 | Roofs should be repaired as soon as they show signs of trouble — check for slipped slates and tiles , failed flashings around chimney stacks and damage to the chimney stack itself . |
| 6 | Firstly , they found from eight of the better designed studies that ‘ mothers of schizophrenics are more concerned , protective , and possibly more intrusive than control mothers both in the current situation and in their attitudes to the children before they showed signs of schizophrenia ’ . |
| 7 | The bodies of 10 men and a woman had been found by a roadside with their hands ties behind their backs ; they bore signs of torture and had been shot in the head , a hallmark of right-wing paramilitary groups whose members included military personnel . |