Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 2 | DELEGATES to the International Coffee Organisation meeting in London said they expected to begin drawing up a framework within which economic clauses could eventually be reintroduced into the agreement . |
| 3 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 4 | a high proportion of students were delaying job search , mainly because they planned to continue writing up their theses . |
| 5 | Proudly , they maintained peace with the white men for seventy years , until finally they became forced to take up arms , the reluctant tormentors of the US Army . |
| 6 | Erm in some ways they 're persecuted bu , but they tend to get pushed around from post to post . |
| 7 | But politicians generally have very suspicious minds and when things are kept hidden from them they tend to want to know why . |
| 8 | But he said when you start paying money just into a building society and then lump sum this and lump sum that they tend to sort of then oh you know , what is actually going on here and they tend to start looking about a bit more . |
| 9 | Does they tend to have more gumption , they tend to have to stand up to him in the end . |
| 10 | The high-quality arabica beans which they grow have become more popular than the robusta variety grown in Africa and , to some extent , in Brazil . |
| 11 | Somewhere between the ages of eight and 10 children 's ideas of what they want to draw become much more ambitious ; in particular , they want their pictures to be more visually realistic and for most of them this ambition far outstrips their skill . |
| 12 | corpus , British corpus corporation they want to get have so many millions of spoken words |
| 13 | Judging from geological surveys , they expect to have to go down to a depth of 45 metres before they find it . |
| 14 | They expect to have sold more than a million IQs worldwide by the end of 1991 . |
| 15 | ‘ Most of the children came in during the first two days and our helplines were flooded with calls , but they appear to have calmed down now . ’ |
| 16 | After two years of marriage , they appear to have given up hope of having a child of their own and have filed adoption papers in Palm Beach , Florida . |
| 17 | The simplest are fine earth spots , which stand out like molehills on a lawn and are often defined by rings of large pebbles or stones , which they appear to have shouldered aside . |
| 18 | At the time of Pentecost they appear to have numbered around four thousand ( dependent on Josephus , Philo and Pliny ) and to have established communities in most of the villages of Palestine . |
| 19 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 20 | However , it is clear that the high levels of stress they reported experiencing did not have disastrous effects on their ability to recall the event . |
| 21 | I really thought that was funny because , once you start listening to their music with that in mind , suddenly almost everything they say starts to become very cryptic . |
| 22 | They seemed to have landed away from the red paralysis , but as he looked around he could see the castle being encroached upon from all directions by the strange weed . |
| 23 | They seemed to have burned up all their lust rather rapidly in their undergraduate years . |
| 24 | Well I mean I I think the grafts that they 've done , the major grafts anyway , are finished and er they seemed to have taken really well , so I mean it 's just a matter of time , really , for them to settle . |
| 25 | I think the wives found it to their benefit to get amongst other wives who were sharing the same problems you know , how to pay the bills , how to buy food , and I think they seemed to get organized pretty well , they certainly helped us a hell of a lot . |
| 26 | Callers phoning a chatline need have no fear of rebuff ; the people they speak to want to talk as much as they do . |
| 27 | They 'd planned to stay there a long time and they left fingerprints all over the place |
| 28 | They 'd gone flying out of the door leaving her wide open to any sort of hurt . |
| 29 | By mutual consent they 'd begun to walk back towards the centre of the city , in the direction of Republic Square . |
| 30 | ‘ I think perhaps they 'd begun to get rather fond of one another . |