Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | An invalid care allowance is a benefit for people of working age who are unable to go out to work because they have the care of a severely disabled relative . |
| 32 | They did not , of course , mention that they fled because they knew the alternative would have been even less attractive , since at that time Philby was still in the West , having been publicly exonerated by Harold Macmillan . |
| 33 | And second , how dare she imply that those hundreds of thousands of people with a spinal injury throughout the world are not walking because they lack the will to do so . |
| 34 | His people kept him monstrously short — ’ I ca n't wait till they discover the debts I 've made ; though as a matter of fact I can wait , it would be wiser too . ’ |
| 35 | They did it free because they thought the information and arguments within the 32 pages were worth spreading . |
| 36 | The indirect effects of religious controversy on attitudes toward science have been stressed because they indicate the contingency of those attitudes at particular times and places . |
| 37 | Er right welcome back B B C Radio York Whaley 's on until er two this afternoon and before we do anything else er a little bit I saw in the paper , Unions about turn , that 's the shop workers ' union known as USDOR erm have done an about turn and they now say because they saw the writing on the wall , that they think Sunday trading is okay , well more or less . |
| 38 | Consequently , Raymond spends his days trying to understand psychotic murderers ( ‘ they 're all bores because they see the rest of the world as flat , and extension of themselves ’ ) , serial killers ( ‘ invariably gifted men ’ ) and the police , for whom he has a particular sympathy . |
| 39 | Lands officers in the Road Service division objected because they claimed the one foot high flower beds could restrict a driver 's vision . |
| 40 | The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens . |
| 41 | By releasing five senior officers imprisoned for crimes committed while they ran the country , from 1976 to 1983 , President Carlos Menem may have hoped to eliminate much of the discontent that lay behind three rebellions against his predecessor , Raul Alfonsin , and one against himself on December 3rd . |
| 42 | In one set of experiments subjects were shown photographs of people they did not know and were asked to indicate whether they thought the person in each picture was a successful person or a failure . |
| 43 | Congratulations to the Mail On Sunday for checking before they stole the story , and to Passenger for being the first London shop to stock up on robots . |
| 44 | Some were wounded before they left the destroyer , including Stuart Chant and Sergeant Chamberlain . |
| 45 | In the early stages of careers mobility is higher in Japan because part of the workforce is discharged before they reach the higher paid section of the profile to be replaced by younger and cheaper labour . |
| 46 | For instance , did they know before they kidnapped the Bonnards that he was a doctor ? |
| 47 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 48 | He and Tommy , drunk , laughing as they offer the body a glass of cider . |
| 49 | Her spirits rose as they left the ugliness of London behind . |
| 50 | When they die , often due to punctures received during the rutting season , they deflate and plunge down to earth , exploding as they strike the Tarmac . |
| 51 | Their worst excesses were committed when they reached the Delta districts where amid the Burmese there were villages of the Karen minority . |
| 52 | The greatly affluent in sumptuous equipage , as they pass the cheerful dwelling of the careless rustic … involuntarily sigh as they behold the modest care-excluding mansion of the lowly contented ; and often from the belief that solid comfort can be found only in retirement , forsake their noisy abodes , to unload their oppressing inquietudes in the tranquil retreat of the rural shelter . |
| 53 | She was therefore a little disconcerted to find when they left the station that instead of waiting for a taxi Lady Selvedge began to stride away in the direction of Victoria Street , saying ‘ I know just the place for us to get a snack . |
| 54 | The first problem occurred when they left the road and moved off into the open desert . |
| 55 | The Imperial troops posted to defend the river gates from Kislev fled when they saw the green horde stretched out across the horizon and advancing at full speed towards them . |
| 56 | A weird island , they found as they walked the last half mile — after leaving the Mercedes in a car park with Dillon seated in the rear . |
| 57 | They would start to jeer at the company , but stopped when they saw the Hearthware sashes and the Myrcan staves and whispered amongst themselves . |
| 58 | They stopped when they reached the tramstop . |
| 59 | Great efforts have been made to restore the salmon runs on rivers in the American north-east , only for 70-90 per cent of the fish to be caught when they reach the rich feeding grounds off the west coast of Greenland . |
| 60 | Some indeed , Ramsey recounts , supposed as they saw the fires in rioting Bristol reflected in the night sky , that the English revolution had begun . |