Example sentences of "[verb] things [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll describe things as they were : Ruthven was slumped across the desk , his head on his arm , his face a whitish-blue , mouth open , eyes staring but sightless . |
| 2 | Formative evaluation ( to use the current jargon ) , is so obviously more important than summative , since you need to modify things as they develop rather than wring your hands over them when they have failed . |
| 3 | However language does not just reflect the society in which we live , it also contributes to how we experience that reality and how much we contribute to keeping things as they are . |
| 4 | Agnes made no comment on this statement ; yet all the while she was thinking , they should n't buy things that they ca n't afford , especially hats , from hard-working women like these . |
| 5 | Wh what was it common , I mean you were talking there about people would buy things that they never bought before ? |
| 6 | For various reasons , intellectual , historical and sexual , it was easier for her to accept things as they were than for Peter . |
| 7 | And this is why at a late stage in À la recherche , Marcel says that it is a mistake , particularly where the artist is concerned , to accept , and I quote , ‘ It 's a mistake to accept things as they are in reality , names as they are written , people as photography and psychology give in an unalterable idea of them . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ He says things and they 're not true . |
| 9 | Bream can and do eat gallons of bait but it is not wise to overdo things if they are finicky . |
| 10 | It was evident in all their dealings that no matter how Marie Claire bestirred herself the maids would do things as they had always done them . |
| 11 | Francis said : ‘ We should have had a number of free-kicks in dangerous areas that could have produced things but they were n't given . ’ |
| 12 | When she was at the premiere of The Delinquents she was wearing this designer dress and it was black and cut up one side , so that you could just see one leg ; it looked awful , Some people only wear things because they have a designer label . |
| 13 | I know they say a picture 's worth a thousand words ( and James would no doubt agree with you ) , but I think we 'll keep things as they are for the moment . |
| 14 | If logic and reason can interpret the information sent in by the senses and produce a conclusion that would change as the information changes , it is emotion that clouds our vision and leads to a state in which we do not see things as they are . |
| 15 | He should see things as they are . |
| 16 | They tend to see with their ears and accept things that they are told are acceptable , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Men accept things as they are , though they would prefer things as they should be . |
| 18 | As one young member of one of the groups put it : ‘ We just accept things as they are , and while we are quite prepared to talk to you tonight we will not do anything tomorrow . ’ |
| 19 | You change things if they 're not going well . |
| 20 | Firstly , a young horse may not have formed a habit of accepting things as they are and automatically always behaving in the same way . |
| 21 | Paul Jackson , for example , the Director of Programmes for Carlton Television , said a little while ago ‘ those who argue for Current Affairs to stay in peak time are just not accepting things as they are . |
| 22 | I will argue , first , that we are inveterate formers of hypotheses about what we are seeing ; second , that computers can only be programmed to see things if they are provided with suitable models ; and third , that our habit of guessing what we are seeing is astonishingly successful . |
| 23 | Which the big glass will not only deny but show up for what it is : narcissism , regression , the refusal to see things as they are . |
| 24 | She absorbed influences around her indiscriminately , like blotting paper , and was so busy , strident and involved that she could never draw back to see things as they really were . |
| 25 | The war has torn the scales from our eyes , and forced us to see things as they really are , and by the light of this clearer vision we have come to regard many conditions as intolerable which before had only seemed inevitable … |
| 26 | And , ’ he warned , ‘ if you hide things and they are subsequently discovered , you lose credibility . ’ |
| 27 | In the Game of Life not seeing things as they are is like not seeing the ball clearly when playing tennis , or not knowing where the white lines are . |
| 28 | But house er erm what is that that 's the footpath people is n't it , they always come and repair things if they 're told , at least they sh , but obviously they have to work in collaboration with the farmers , er concerned . |
| 29 | Given things as they were , the effect had to happen . |
| 30 | They did n't make things but they was responsible for moving things about . |