Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] [conj] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had hoped that the project would foster greater continuity between children 's experience of learning in primary school , and their experience in the comprehensive : I want to get away from [ a didactic approach ] , to the pupils taking more responsibility for work they produce and being more autonomous in the way that they do it and hoping to create more responsibility in them rather than them seeking the teacher all the time for information ; and thinking that all knowledge and information and values have to be teacher judged … |
| 2 | We had two statements before us : Teddy Mayer 's of McLaren , who had asserted that drivers were ‘ just interchangeable light bulbs : you plug them in and they do the job ’ and Bernard Ecclestone 's classic , ‘ no driver is worth more than $25,000 ‘ . |
| 3 | Initially this new German ‘ victory ’ weapon proved unnerving but before long it became possible for the ‘ V1s ’ to be intercepted by fighter aircraft over the sea , although their speed was a problem , but by moving the bulk of the anti-aircraft artillery units to the Isle of Wight and along the southern coastline of England , it was possible to shoot them down before they reached the London area . |
| 4 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 5 | See they ai n't got the concrete roads down to put them down when they bought the farm off Sam years later . |
| 6 | Dawn overtook them long before they reached the Esk , or even the Lyne . |
| 7 | I though when they won the league they were bad but it is getting worse with each passing day . |
| 8 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 9 | Even the fishing fleet came down the harbour as expected from intelligence reports , and might have choked the narrow 100 yards wide entrance if a burst of tracer from a destroyer had not turned them aside as they grasped the situation . |
| 10 | But we can buttonhole anyone we please as they leave the chamber : a privilege akin to the London correspondents of Pravda or Izvestia being able to accost cabinet ministers in the members ' lobby of the Commons . |
| 11 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 12 | The Woman turned , pulling the whole of the little group round with her so that they faced the house , towards the mirror which hung over the sofa . |
| 13 | She found herself smiling at him suddenly as they gained the shelter of the sitting-room and went in search of towels . |
| 14 | He looked her over as they reached the gallery , pausing at the top of the stairs . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll sort it out , ’ he assured her callously as they entered the building , and she suppressed an urge to hit out at him and tell him exactly what he had done and was doing to her . |
| 16 | He had watched them silently as they lowered the little bush into the prepared hole , with considerable argument as to how the roots should be spread . |
| 17 | The markets forced it down because they doubted the government 's willingness to keep interest rates high in a sagging economy — and who can blame them ? |
| 18 | But they do it though and they expect the cleaners to do it for no extra pay ? |
| 19 | The women watched them curiously as they mounted the stairs . |