Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 2 | Across the small table in the basement club where they now sat , Rune 's light eyes challenged her statement . |
| 3 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 4 | Secondly , the rocks of intrusions are often more resistant to erosion than the surrounding country rock so they frequently form prominent landforms once exposed at the surface . |
| 5 | I think it 's actually still inbuilt in erm children 's minds , and I think it 's sometimes the mother 's own fault because they still bring them up , you know like , girls will do this and boys will do that , I think that is actually still still there , you know . |
| 6 | These may not always be the people who sparkle a great deal because they often have a maverick quality . |
| 7 | In two patients the cause of anaemia may have been menstrual loss because they both settled after menstruation had stopped . |
| 8 | ‘ When they go onto these so-called new diets , people tend to lose weight because they automatically restrict themselves without realising they ought to be eating more bread , cereals , fruit and vegetables . |
| 9 | Galloping into town in their long prairie coats and dusty stetsons , with guns blazing and yelling like madmen , they would demoralize the opposition before they even reached the money . |
| 10 | A party of puffins had to take evasive action as they nearly flew into the side of the ship . |
| 11 | Join Axel and Blaze for more gob-smacking action as they again take on the hordes of Mr Big . |
| 12 | RANGERS boss Walter Smith praised his young side as they easily overcame Hibs to set up an important week with forthcoming matches against Club Bruges and Celtic . |
| 13 | My mother threw insults and then the crockery , while my father ignored the insults , caught the crockery , and produced endless cups of tea when they eventually decided to make up . |
| 14 | The Farm represent everything utterly obnoxious about this country , probably not their fault as they never had a decent education , but glorifying football thuggery , provincial mediocrity and small-minded plebbiness only encourages the pettiness of our current society . |
| 15 | Previous studies have uncertain relevance to the outpatient setting as they either investigated subgroups of patients for example the elderly , or have reported on the findings in hospital inpatients . |
| 16 | Put any group of players together and watch the torture as they painfully suss out where they fit in the ability stakes , and watch the most inept contract into a meek and confused , self-effacing heap . |
| 17 | If I come in too quickly , specialising will become a superficial behaviour , and it will not be available as a potent force when they really need it . |
| 18 | The Australian initiative was rejected both by the Privy Council and the English courts , largely on the grounds that the common-law precedents were not compelling , that the full defence of self-defence should be applied indulgently in favour of those who use such force as they instinctively think necessary , and that the doctrine of provocation might be used to accommodate other cases . |
| 19 | Unscrupulous manipulation of constituency boundaries gave them even more of the seats in the Stormont Parliament than they properly deserved , but this gerrymandering was unnecessary . |
| 20 | The charity argues that in return those parents deserve far more support than they currently receive . |
| 21 | It is now recognized that people who have been on weight-reducing diets subsequently have a lower calorie requirement than they previously had . |
| 22 | Savage Orcs do not usually wear armour although they sometimes obtain it as war booty or trade it from wandering Goblin tribes . |
| 23 | But , according to Williams , this argument gives utilitarian methods greater prestige and a greater role in decision-making than they actually deserve . |
| 24 | And my employers Fitch ( Groupe Bull , Southern Electricity ) lost more sleep over whether the colours in our new letterhead would allow it to make any sense coming off a client 's monochrome fax machine than they ever did about the evocation of caring values . |
| 25 | It has given its owners a greater degree of mobility than they hitherto possessed but the social and environmental cost has been considerable . |
| 26 | WHY do people continue to propagate the ridiculous idea that a couple 's problems will fade into nothingness if they simply make babies ? |
| 27 | The issue was that the receivers had sufficient liquid assets to pay themselves and then terminate the receivership if they only paid themselves the amount of remuneration which B and L thought was due to them . |
| 28 | Great care has been taken in the current depression , for example , to construct the image of scrounging , fiddling , laziness and greed as characteristic of the unemployed who ‘ could find work if they really wanted to ’ or whose misfortune can be explained by ‘ the irresponsible pay demands and restrictive practices ’ of those still in work . |
| 29 | Strongly opposing the maintenance of an essentially arbitrary general retirement-age , the Committee recommended that the test for engagement or retirement should be capacity , not age , and that all who could give effective service should have the chance to continue in work if they so wished . |
| 30 | They therefore feel they are entitled to sing , throw plates and trip the light fandango during your act if they so choose . |