Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many clients like to shop around before they commit themselves to a solicitor and like to feel that they can find something out about you before they are committed to the payment of fees . |
| 2 | She was relieved when Nigel had to slow down as they reached the outskirts of Cheltenham . |
| 3 | In time , the forest trees in the magnificent Harz Mountains started to thin out as they were poisoned . |
| 4 | Thousands of pounds worth of antiques are filling the cells of a police station while officers try to find out whether they were stolen . |
| 5 | Dot listened as the grown-ups continued to grumble along as they had done for as long as she could remember , like the harmless rumble of gunfire faraway . |
| 6 | Traffic began to peter out and they found themselves in the middle of extensive minefields . |
| 7 | People had to get out and they 'd turn the bus over time and time . |
| 8 | The sort of abasement novices have to go through before they are admitted to an order . |
| 9 | If we keep our nerve long enough it may give the police time to find out where they are being held . ’ |
| 10 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 11 | Solicitously he helped the young nun to mount , muttering under his breath about how certain clerks seemed to turn up when they were least expected or wanted . |
| 12 | The agony that others seem to go through as they try to balance the contrasting facets of their lives leaves Sustad largely unaffected . |
| 13 | The Polytechnic usually receives hundreds of phone calls from students trying to find out if they 've secured a place at college . |
| 14 | These are strategic alternatives which would capitalize on George and Marie 's strengths and minimize their weaknesses : it is the business of a case study answer to identify these alternatives and not just to assume that the proprietors have to go on as they started . |