Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [be] [adj] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the reason they do so is cultural and has to do with the elective affinity of their habituses with postmodern culture . |
| 2 | you know they 've both got little jobs , they 've never be late and they |
| 3 | She did n't like to own up to the fact that she now stood a little in awe of him , and she had never felt like that with either Mr Martin or his father before him because , in their own ways , they had both been free and easy . |
| 4 | The reason for the decision was that the burden of proof lay on the defendants to prove that they had not been negligent and they had failed to discharge this burden . |
| 5 | They have not been touched-up or doctored in any way whatever . |
| 6 | It is n't often that unions have taken up issues such as racial or sex discrimination or unfair dismissal , and when workers have come out on strike they have usually been slow and reluctant to make these strikes official . |
| 7 | The ground they stood on was dry and cushiony with centuries of yew-needles , nothing grew there . |
| 8 | The thrones they sat on were fluted and heavily decorated with clusters of mother-of-pearl along the back and arms . |