Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Germans had no illusions about the military effectiveness of their principal ally , and at first they agreed to accept only a few divisions of the Alpini , the specialist mountain troops who could hold their own with any in Europe . |
| 2 | While it does seem to be a little less pernicious , in that male respondents less often say that they want to marry only a woman who is a virgin than they used to , it is still alive and well in that women are more often criticized than men for engaging in non-marital sexual activity . |
| 3 | Had he forgotten how they 'd parted just a few hours earlier ? |
| 4 | yes , well I used to read a lot of story books , travel avidly and I think I forget all about the author and the story , but I remember one portion where they discovered a depression in the middle of a continent where it was in excess of and they 'd grown quite a different specie |
| 5 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 6 | They seem to talk quite a lot up high in the in their nasal passages . |
| 7 | They seem to have rather a thing about , I do n't know , nature , ’ he tells Howard . |
| 8 | When Willis came out , England were 197 ahead with 151 minutes and twenty overs left and there can not have been many who doubted West Indies would win , but with Willis lunging his left leg forward and Willey protecting him from the strike as much as possible , they began to put together a remarkable stand . |
| 9 | They keep saying well a sixth must be bigger cos six is bigger . |
| 10 | Liz had joked that they were sure , in the rafters , to discover a dead baby , and indeed they did find there a mummified cat , which a pathologist friend hazarded to be at least a hundred years old . |
| 11 | The Bill 's interesting , I think , because they do have quite a few isolated episodes , like that issue of wife battering , which can be quite progressive . |
| 12 | The bit where he like jumping on the lake they 've cut away a bit of the platform so the only way you can do it is jump onto this bit of wood then fly , and literally he was like that , just going in mid air and landed right in the water ! |
| 13 | As we feel that they missed a fair bit out what they 've written is very good but erm they 've missed quite a bit out |
| 14 | Yes , it 'll be worth following that up , cos that 's , that 's one of the erm , they , they 've done quite a lot of work of Amnesty and general studies in the past , there was a sheet of sort of quotes of , how good the Amnesty was , and there was one from the teacher at Birchwood or what , what 's Margaret Dane School , so erm , yes , if , if you could definitely follow that up erm John |
| 15 | So they went up there and did that , and then , I ca they 've done quite a lot and then they 're going up London tomorrow , I think . |
| 16 | Mr Chairman , I , would like to slightly and trying not to be parochial , but having looked at the erm , figures , I , I just can not believe that those are honest figures , I mean there are eleven hundred and sixty nine people unemployed in Craven Arms or something like that , and they 've lost over a thousand jobs over the last few years , and erm , very few of those have been replaced . |
| 17 | They 've put together a side of young lads and journeyman pros , and that is meant as a compliment . |
| 18 | In this day and age , 100MB is average , and people quite often discover that they 've got only a few kilobytes of space left , and usually at the most inopportune times . |
| 19 | They 've got quite a lot of Christabel 's unpublished papers there . |
| 20 | on the road er They 've got quite a good selection now . |
| 21 | and they 've got quite a big place at Harrogate where you could go for a day or two to observe what was going on and so on . |
| 22 | Well they 're , they are still waiting for , for confirmation on money , but they 've got quite a lot in the kitty already |
| 23 | They do quite a , they 've got quite a big programme in Gosforth and Newcastle and |
| 24 | They 've got quite a nice it 's not a large house but it 's a good size lounge and dining room and kitchen . |
| 25 | They 've got quite a few of these at erm at , at the Railway Trust , they 've er they 've got a number of these signal boxes . |
| 26 | No it 's changed the er they 've got quite a few plays going on , they 've got chess going on |
| 27 | and they 've got now a deficit of , life cover there and extra , again you take out one of these for it . |
| 28 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 29 | We 've sent someone out to meet them , because they 've taken rather a long time . |
| 30 | They 've chosen quite a diversity of places , from wild and lonely Wester Ross to the spectacular north Cornish coast . |