Example sentences of "[noun] they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But er communism and politics are like religion they do n't necessarily deliver the goods . |
| 2 | Er the speed they come out of that bend is unbelievable and I speak from experience Madam Chairman because my daughter lives on that very corner where the bend is and er |
| 3 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 4 | Trade unions began , if slowly and unadventurously , to assert that they did n't give a hoot : their members were not going to run risks they did n't like . |
| 5 | But to everyone 's great disappointment they showed hardly any signs of pleasure . |
| 6 | The only sour note was when her memories coincided with those of the supporting artistes and she duplicated a couple of songs they had already warbled through . |
| 7 | The colt races in the colours of Chris 's wife Shirley , and they 're due a bit of luck — a horse they bought over from Ireland for Henrietta Knight to train died of colic not long ago . |
| 8 | The familiar modern terminology was already in use : " bull " already described a dealer who bought stock and sold it ahead of having to pay for it , while " bear " applied to those who contracted to sell stock they had yet to obtain . |
| 9 | ‘ P'raps they 've only had twelve weeks ’ trainin' as well , ’ said Tommy , hopefully . |
| 10 | ‘ When you consider the inexperience of the side they put out in their first Test against France , their 20–15 victory was remarkable . |
| 11 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 12 | Party censors stamped out any arts they did not like . |
| 13 | The most that the British knew about armies was that intermittently over four or five centuries they got together in a sort of militia or Home Guard in case the enemy arrived , and the necessity of a state to run the affairs of the country for the country 's salvation , was never so present to the British mind as it always has been to the minds of most continental people . |
| 14 | Although both the credal and experimental forms of predestinarianism may now appear harsh and inflexible creeds , during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries they accorded well with the political and social realities of life in England . |
| 15 | Partly due to their systematic exclusion , but also as a matter of choice , feminist artists increasingly preferred to display their work in settings they considered more appropriate to their desire to participate in the more public/political debates of feminism and a recognition of art as a communicative medium . |
| 16 | She sat and ate it with them now , and oh , it was torture that in deference to propriety and Matey they had not made love again as they had done that golden afternoon , always to be remembered . |
| 17 | Or perhaps they sort through the plastic bag of pubic hairs they keep specially to place on the side of your bath before you check in ? |
| 18 | Away from the influence of the husbands they cope remarkably well . " |
| 19 | The ministry accepted that farm-gate prices were a misleading basis for calculating cost benefits , but the new methods they came up with did not fully adjust the calculations accordingly , especially in the case of cereals . |
| 20 | Feeling rather conspicuous in her towel and bikini , she followed him up to the palatially decorated VIP suite , and into the bathroom — trying not to notice the bedroom they passed through on the way . |
| 21 | At their trial , in which Mathews was the principal prosecution witness , they were all sentenced to life imprisonment with a recommendation they serve not less than twenty years . |
| 22 | However , if mind-reading is beyond your ability , you can gain a real insight into horses ' feelings and moods by the physical signals they give out . |
| 23 | Of course , outputting them at 300dpi meant making some sacrifices so Adobe build in a mechanism for improving the shapes of the characters at low resolution , the technique is called hinting , and to protect their investment they encrypted both the typefaces and the hinting method so that the faces would only work properly with their own version of PostScript . |
| 24 | Led by Lt Fusata Iida they flew in at a height of 50ft and within a few minutes the airfield was a smoking mess . |
| 25 | Many mentioned the practical steps they had already devised : altering curriculum materials , deliberately avoiding the use of stereotyped language , studying patterns of classroom interaction and thinking of ways to increase girls ' participation . |
| 26 | When mealworms were given to a group of meerkats by means of a cleverly designed dispenser their activity increased enormously and the pattern was on a par with that of the wild populations ; without such a dispenser they showed more lethargic , passive and atypical behaviour patterns . |
| 27 | It is apparent that even where investigations have commenced within physical geography they have often proceeded to become intertwined with other disciplines . |
| 28 | Inevitably , though , some people missed the point entirely and as a result they 've often been tarred by the indiscriminate brush of ‘ gothic rock ’ . |
| 29 | They have cut the price , er of meals charged to the children , they 've er made some adjustments o c , to the menus offered , which was what the parents wanted , and as a result they 've actually increased the take-up of school meals by something like sixty percent . |
| 30 | As a result they went on to argue for sole custody in step-parent situations on the assumption of children having one ‘ psychological parent ’ with whom they maintain a continuous relationship and bond . |