Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to go always to the top of the |
| 2 | They tend to cater mainly for the under-sixties , although they are always willing to do everything they can to help the older widow too . |
| 3 | The basic assumption of geometric perspective is that although parallel lines never meet , they appear to do so at a vanishing point , on a distant backcloth . |
| 4 | There were times when he felt cut off by some imponderable barrier ; the usual sights and sounds reached him but they seemed to do so through a screen of interference , like a badly tuned radio . |
| 5 | A series of small works on panel of Chesil Bank , Dorset , share Nicholson 's sensibility to place : very localised , they seem to respond emotionally to the landscape and convey the artist 's pleasure at being there . |
| 6 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |
| 7 | You can imagine that some drivers er went the wrong way , and it was just that they , they just did n't concentrate on the run but nowadays they seem to run all over the town . |
| 8 | The German and French objective , therefore , is to have a common European perimeter border against further immigration and to share the burden arising out of their open-ended commitments by allowing the immigrants they attract to move freely within the EEC . |
| 9 | They stand to benefit little from the insider dealing prohibition . |
| 10 | Nor can they hope to earn more in the future . |
| 11 | Her words were barely audible , so light that they threatened to float away on the breeze . |
| 12 | Should they decide to push ahead with the scheme they will then seek more EC funding . |
| 13 | From about 1883 , when Field-Marshal von Waldersee , the chief of the general staff , developed an active interest in foreign policy , they began to report directly to the general staff and , encouraged by Waldersee , to the emperor himself . |
| 14 | He straightened up and put his hand under her arm , sending an illogical tremor running through her as they began to walk slowly towards the bow of the ship . |
| 15 | They continue to grow well beyond the size at which they would normally change shape and become as big , if not bigger , than the land-living form . |
| 16 | Mum collected an empty trolley from the bay and they started to walk slowly past the butter and margarine display . |
| 17 | All I know is that my presence was no surprise to them , but they decided to go ahead with the drop anyway . |
| 18 | In particular , I will focus on those occasions when executives try to solve problems that are potentially threatening , and they try to do so in a way that communicates caring and respect for the other . |
| 19 | They managed to crawl away from the lava to spend a freezing night on a ledge 150 yards inside the 500ft vent . |
| 20 | As indicated by the work commissioned by the Department of Health , few practitioners currently make that distinction , nor are they encouraged to do so by the assessment procedures they are required to operate ( DoH , 1991d , p. 47 ) . |
| 21 | Never again will be they allowed to ride rough-shod over the wishes of English cricket-lovers . ’ |
| 22 | Every few paces they paused to peer ahead into the gloom , and when they reached a gap in the trees Devraux stopped and pointed . |
| 23 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 24 | They could not afford another campaign : they had run through the treasure inherited from Edward II so quickly that they could not even pay their Hainault mercenaries , and they had to borrow both from the Florentine banking house of Bardi and from English merchants . |
| 25 | They had to walk right past the tramp to enter the church and they made absolutely no attempt to help him in any way . |
| 26 | Change was unstoppable and they had to stay ahead of the game . |
| 27 | Carefully , slowly , Grace and her father tried to get the boat near the rock , but three times they had to pull away at the last minute . |
| 28 | erm many people came to Kuwait to work for a short term and after a while they realised it 's fine so they continued to stay there for a long time , and that is the haven that we were talking about . |
| 29 | Many of the human victims clearly left their homes feeling full of optimism , carrying bags of gold , pieces of jewellery and other valued objects , which they refused to abandon even at the point of death . |
| 30 | They refused to go home at the end of their shift and worked frantically to reach him . |