Example sentences of "[coord] they [verb] [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They usually deal with the situation in one of two ways — they patronise you and try to take control on the assumption that you must need their guidance to do a decent job ; or they undermine you by making obscene remarks and deliberately causing problems . |
| 2 | They were more intelligent and versatile than most , and they reminded her of playing with paper aeroplanes during lessons at school . |
| 3 | ONE group of men turned the tide of the Gulf War against Saddam Hussein — and they did it by tying up thousands of Iraqi soldiers in a deadly , sophisticated and top secret game of cat and mouse in the desert . |
| 4 | ‘ They are a big , heavy side and they pride themselves on having rugged forwards , ’ said Moore . |
| 5 | These provisions thus removed a source of grievance , but they did nothing towards solving the fundamental problems of compensation and betterment , and the result proved extremely costly to public authorities . |
| 6 | They had won , as they will always have to , against the odds , but they did it by capitalising on their best players , by utilising every ounce of available experience and by trying as hard as they knew how . |
| 7 | But they accuse me of lying in my book . |