Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , another way of explaining this effect is to ask the subjects how they performed the experimental task . |
| 2 | Then in 1947 they threw a bomb at the Red Cross cinema and two days later they attacked the Cairo Haifa train . |
| 3 | Several days later they entertained the Egyptian President , Anwar Sadat , and his wife Jihan on board the royal yacht . |
| 4 | Four years later they gave the 368 children left in the study standard reading and spelling tests . |
| 5 | For them it 's the latest … possbily the last great mountain challenge … three years ago they reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro … two years ago they made for Mont Blanc and the Alps … |
| 6 | Five years ago they took the 1927 Grand National Winners Cup . |
| 7 | Two years ago they bought the seafront house as a weekend retreat . |
| 8 | Five years six years ago they introduced the postal wallets because they found that estate agents were sending the very expensive glossy brochures out in the post . |
| 9 | In some places abroad they have the women playing football before the actual big games which it would be helpful if it was here . |
| 10 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 11 | They avoid places where they perceive the risk of assault to be high . |
| 12 | Five hours later they sent the radio message : ‘ It 's all over . ’ |
| 13 | When the recovery crew arrived two hours later they found the capsule was filling with water from the seven foot swell . |
| 14 | 20 minutes later they had the chance to strretch the lead . |
| 15 | Twenty-five minutes later they saw the high blue-concreted wall on the right , the barrier that had kept the secrets of the Red Army from the citizens of Dresden . |
| 16 | Ten minutes later they passed the Peugeot . |
| 17 | When police arrived minutes later they found the barely-alive victim inside the Red Hall estate flat . |
| 18 | Ten minutes later they stopped the shower . |
| 19 | But it 's not , it 's flourishing and there 's plenty demand ca n't get enough slates and er yes they say they 've got er terrific overheads this and that , er well erm they can put them figures there they change the tune changes every day . |
| 20 | So trained were these beautiful animals that they would trot from their stalls whenever they heard the fire alarm bell . |
| 21 | The French recovered the lead but two laps later they tried the same move in the same place and there was a collision between the two boats . |
| 22 | Well as a the reflector is they actually learn from situations where they get the opportunity to sit back to watch to think about what 's being said so they digest in information for themselves . |
| 23 | you know how they strip , they have they undo the top half but then they s they erm have velcro down the seams so they pull the rest off , and then they slip the T-shirt sort of |
| 24 | And a couple of girls so they got the message and then the they moved off down towar down the bottom . |
| 25 | They can expect to make around £1 million a tie from the three guaranteed ‘ league ’ matches once they reach the last eight . |
| 26 | He says of course we were disappointed in not having the holiday but moreso the children who were absolutely devastates when they heard the news . |
| 27 | Consequently when commercial artists and manufacturers began using these photographs as reference for comic strips , book illustrations , box tops etc. they assumed the reel to be a speaker grill . |
| 28 | Seconds later they heard the Armstrong start and move away with a screech of tyres . |
| 29 | It follows that the directors will best serve the interests of the shareholders where they adopt the policy , which may include undertaking investment projects that will produce a delayed return , that is most likely to maximise the firm 's present value . |
| 30 | In these experiments , the rats learn the new trick best at those times when they remember the old trick least well : it is as if a rat can learn a new trick more easily when its memory is not muddling it with the memory of the old trick . |