Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 2 | The detailed changes to the boundary layer structure during this development are complicated , although they occupy only a small fraction of the total distance over which transition occurs . |
| 3 | In England the codes of the Anglo-Saxon kings , although they covered only a fraction of the area covered by custom , and although they contained numerous traditional items , involved some new legislation and made little pretence of not doing so . |
| 4 | He reached this conclusion notwithstanding the fact that the defendants had received this information as agents for Mr. Brant and that they owed accordingly a duty to Mr. Brant not to disclose the information to others . |
| 5 | Is the first offer that they make simply an opening shot ? |
| 6 | They are alleged to send the ball further but I 'm not sure that they put even a yard on a shot . |
| 7 | He says that they get quite a few injured badgers this time of year . |
| 8 | that John Lewis does n't publish its erm most of its charitable giving either and that they done quite a lot |
| 9 | Deception was another of the subjects that they knew rather a lot about at the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 11 | However , examples of this kind are so few that they indicate only a slight tendency ( possibly confined to some pre-sonorant environments ) , which is not enough for /a/ backing to be discussed as a stereotype . |
| 12 | They were younger than she had expected and seemed shy and reticent , emphasising frequently , all the way up the stairs , that they wanted only a bolt-hole and must not be thought of as real boarders . |
| 13 | Given their backward character and the fact that they appeared scarcely a year after George Hepplewhite 's death , the traditional suggestion that Alice , his widow , was capitalizing on his designs seems plausible . |
| 14 | and we were geared more to progress in the education system where the industrial change in the other countries did n't happen at the same time and that they needed now a younger ag a younger age group to keep the , the industrial system going |
| 15 | expressing your hope that these convictions signal the determination of the Guatemalan government not to tolerate any further human rights abuses , no matter who the perpetrators , and that they represent merely a first step in a concentrated programme of government action intended to return Guatemala to the rule of law ; |
| 16 | Such charges might seem unpalatable to influential lairds , but the report suggests that they represent merely a shift of emphasis , recognising the responsibility for good stewardship long adopted by many Highland estates . |
| 17 | This is despite the fact that they carry only a minority of the 13 stigmata of weediness . |
| 18 | The overwhelming conclusion emerging from any assessment of these programmes is that they have only a marginal impact on inner-urban problems . |
| 19 | They found paper which appeared to match the death threat to MacQuillan and the note to Wainfleet ; and they took away a pair of trousers with worn pockets . |
| 20 | And they saw quite a lot more flags hanging out of windows . |
| 21 | I mean our building was n't touched but I I somehow always thought they would n't come there because they were so trapped , but they did and they spent quite a lot of time trying to get those cars going . |
| 22 | The Incas banished the two great causes of popular disaffection : poverty and idleness , and they left only a small place for ambition and greed . ’ |
| 23 | And they raised nearly a hundred thousand pounds for his widow . |
| 24 | They feel a bit beleaguered here , and they cause quite a sensation when they walk about in the streets with their long hair ( the men , I mean ! ) . |
| 25 | And they they failed then you see with cutting the crop with a scythe and they hired then a tractor and binder to cut the crop . |
| 26 | By 1978 British Rail and the Société Nationale des Chemins de Fer Français ( SNC ) had started planning a single track rail tunnel for through rail services , commonly known as the Mousehole , and they put forward a plan to the governments in 1979 . |
| 27 | She linked her arm through Nathan 's and they pushed open a few doors , only to find empty rooms . |
| 28 | What happens when it burns or explodes , so the okay , the potassium nitrate and the carbon and the sulphur burn and they give quite a bit of er C O two . |
| 29 | It takes a while for them to actually settle in , and they need quite a lot of support because we do work in teams and they 're quite well established teams with definite personalities . |
| 30 | We are publicized anyway by Eurostep and they do quite a lot of publicity — how effective their publicity is I do n't know , but we our publicity is as a back up to existing publicity . |