Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [conj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They creaked awake and set to rousing the fire and cooking breakfast , the Hearthwares cursing the chill weight of their armour , hopping up and down to get the blood moving through their limbs . |
| 2 | ‘ By the time they became suspicious and went into the warehouse , the defendant had gone . ’ |
| 3 | Although a minority of the group succeeded in finding jobs , these did not last long , and , like the rest of this group , who remained unemployed , they became frustrated and disillusioned by the difficulties they experienced in finding employment and by the attitude of employers to older workers . |
| 4 | had a farm at and they sold that and moved to that one . |
| 5 | ‘ I just throw my dirty clothes on the floor and next day they appear clean and pressed in my wardrobe ’ . |
| 6 | We spent an afternoon with plantation workers who continue to do health promotion training even though they earn little and live in an area where such work can be rewarded by a place on a death list . |
| 7 | They arrived breathless and slid into their places , faces down , not wanting to attract attention . |
| 8 | Do n't hesitate to use them even if they sound silly or have to be kept private . |
| 9 | They huddle close and drink at the trough of the Baltic along with Sweden and Finland . |
| 10 | It is not uncommon for different members of the same court to be in agreement as to the contents of the procedural duty , but to differ as to whether they describe this as resulting from natural justice or fairness . |
| 11 | They turned nomadic and mingled with the nomads of the Sudan , where they were to consider building a further house and perhaps settling down . |
| 12 | They exchanged banter and gossip about old friends , new acquaintances , and fresh scandals . |
| 13 | " People fetch them from the office and mean to take them round , and then they get lost or dropped in the water . |
| 14 | As they get older and identify with you , they will want to copy your style of behaviour . |
| 15 | We pray for those who are angry or bitter because they feel unwanted or marginalised in our society . |
| 16 | They are often not very confident ( however they may appear ) and always want to impress their friends by their unpleasant exploits , so that they feel wanted and accepted by the in-crowd — just like Herod . |
| 17 | They feel bitter and disillusioned by the conditions they say they are forced to endure , under direct threat of assassination . |
| 18 | This is the production of EM energy in certain solid crystals when they become compressed and stretched in particular directions ( an effect used in a crystal pick-up of a record player ) . |
| 19 | With such a healthy list of urgent needs , advice workers might be excused if they become impatient when training for which they can not see an immediate need is imposed upon them . |
| 20 | The characteristics of both the phonemes and of the things in the natural world that are selected for specific purposes are arbitrary in themselves but they become meaningful when contrasted with others to form a set . |
| 21 | Instead they become angry when asked about it because they are not all right and are not coping . |
| 22 | While 11 per cent were worried about flying , 90 per cent said they felt better and refreshed after a holiday . |
| 23 | Child-care was the only area in which husbands participated at all actively , and they saw that as helping with her job . |
| 24 | Others were baffled , not able to believe that free people , famous and rich too , could say what they saw printed or heard on Romanian television or radio . |
| 25 | ‘ Fame must be such a bore , ’ she quipped , determined to show him how unimpressed she was by the eyelash-fluttering of the women and the hearty handshakes of their escorts as they traded banter and insults with him . |
| 26 | They seemed a threat because they looked odd and acted in an odd way . |
| 27 | all that material and stuff did they bought that or send for it or |
| 28 | They stood still and watched in silence . |
| 29 | Between 1964 and 1990 , the number of births outside marriage increased from 63 thousand to 200 thousand , while the proportion of all births that they represent more than quadrupled from 7% to 29% . |
| 30 | He went among the beggars who congregated in tube-station entrances , looking them over as they sat hunched and huddled on steps . |