Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [subord] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she stepped from the car he had greeted her with careful formality and his manner had remained stiff and impersonal as they began the ride ; but she sensed a tension in him too and knew intuitively that it was not a lack of interest that kept his gaze averted from her . |
| 2 | The boys are becoming more evil and corrupt as they divide the island into three units . |
| 3 | And that is a different matter , because you 're then , they then make decisions on your behalf , and th they will actually move and , and , and reinvest er take commissions from some of those reinvestments and that 's all going to them , and fine if they do the job . |
| 4 | The climbing plants are particularly effective and useful as they cover the vertical surfaces and make use of a third dimension . |
| 5 | The new arrivals trod their way over the pebbles behind this man carrying their crates and smiling as they approached the waves . |
| 6 | Firelight glinted off satiny flesh as they moved , their bodies like molten gold , fluid and changing as they sought the ultimate fusion . |
| 7 | The big lift took them up higher and higher until they reached the top floor when it stopped with a little bump . |
| 8 | Lying there helpless as a babby , paralysed and drugged and dumb while they fetched the priest to him . |
| 9 | Some of the new treatments offered at the hospital , such as drug treatment for malignant conditions or transrectal hyperthermia for benign prostate disease are , the trust claims , particularly cost-effective and advantageous as they avoid the need for a hospital stay required by the traditional prostatectomy and preserve male potency . |
| 10 | In the 1920s , the incidents were a little more prosaic — but useful if they gave the patrolling constable something to chuckle over for an hour or two . |