Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest had followed Hazel when he roused them and , without explanation , told them to go quickly outside the barn . |
| 2 | ‘ For , ’ she put down , ‘ I want to go there as humble McAllister who keeps the house clean , dressed the doll and made and embroidered the baby clothes , not as the American Princess doing the gracious , ladling our Papa 's money , not one penny of which I have earned , smiling and patronising those not so fortunate as myself , and then leaving them to go home to the embassy — to forget them ! ’ |
| 3 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 4 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 5 | One reason is that women , particularly in the Third World , are often not aware of the real dangers of contraception because health staff and pharmaceutical companies keep them in ignorance for fear of making them stay away from the clinic . |
| 6 | For all the world as if she and Miss Beard were ladies of quality , he ceremoniously handed them into the carriage , the two of them to sit together in the back , while Herbert Fraser sat beside Sean in the front . |
| 7 | It was an angle that caused them to fall apart in the end . |
| 8 | The citizens charter sets out a comprehensive programme to improve the quality of public services and make them answer better to the wishes of their users , where that can be done , by providing choice for the citizen . |
| 9 | When Connor came back with a pint pot in either hand , he found his wife in the arms of the young Welshman , and stood smiling , watching them dance together to a song that had become all the rage in the last few years : |
| 10 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 11 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 12 | The destruction of the temples and the towns round them led directly to a rebuilding programme . |
| 13 | First there was a vague lightening of the sky ahead , then the drumming of the rain was less persistent , the lesser darkness in the heavens spread until it was over them , they could distinguish the greater irregularities of the ground , the last few drops of rain splashed down and a blissful silence spread around them broken only by the sibillations of the water draining away among the rocks and the splash of their sodden feet . |
| 14 | Father keeps them hidden away in a room off his library . ’ |
| 15 | He says the two main benefits for shareholders are that the perks are a ‘ bit of fun ’ that it ‘ enables them to relate more to the company . ’ |
| 16 | The difference between them lies simply in the fact that while do situates the infinitive in time as an actualization , the modals only situate it as a potentiality . |
| 17 | When they were n't trashing their equipment ( something which kept them occupied deep into the Seventies ) , they were trashing each other . |
| 18 | There is genuine confusion among the army commanders in Bosnia despite the enormous pressure from Belgrade for them to work openly with the Serb paramilitaries . |
| 19 | Accompanied by two of his closest advisers , foermer Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda and Sanya Dharmasakdi , he appealed to them to work together for the sake of the people and the economy . |
| 20 | The crunch is that in September , Hong Kong 's rugby players , like most other expatriates in the Colony , will be enjoying their summer holidays — many of them scattered all around the world — and the rugby season would still have not begun . |
| 21 | Serve them chilled either as an aperitif or try them with white meat , poultry dishes and cheeses . |
| 22 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 23 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 24 | She picked up the slips of pasteboard and let them fall haphazardly on the table in front of them . |
| 25 | I I 'm , this does n't seem to me , a very intelligent way , I I , somehow or other you 've got to get the parents , win them to behave properly towards the children without the threat of a heavy fine on their head . |
| 26 | But if more deaths among the female goats resulted from the aberrant male breeding behaviour in this population , what caused them to behave so in the first place ? |
| 27 | The women lived with it — some of them came here for a week and then went back to it . |
| 28 | Yes and and then when the lifeboat came , the Eday and and Sanday and them a lot of them came across for the dances , the lifeboat dances , it was really I would say the best time |
| 29 | The world is full of stray cats , many of them searching hopefully for a new home . |
| 30 | Apparently you could hear them shouting all round the college . |