Example sentences of "they [verb] and [adv] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hanging around town when they met and now they see each other about five times a week . |
| 2 | you know I mean they , they do do n't they , they overstaff and then they 've got to cut back . |
| 3 | Sometimes they fought and sometimes they fucked and there seemed little difference between the two . |
| 4 | ‘ We give them everything they want and yet they behave so badly ’ is a frequent complaint . |
| 5 | They go shopping for what they want and mainly they buy from people they know . |
| 6 | And those mines , ’ he gazed across at the fells but , true to his wits , in the wrong direction , ‘ they open them up every six or seven years , they take what they want and then they close them down . |
| 7 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 8 | The survey also asked companies a series of questions on what sources of market research they used and also what barriers companies felt had inhibited their export performance . |
| 9 | In answer to Tamar 's claims that she had no clothes suitable for a visit to the capital , Stephen persuaded her to wait until they arrived and then she would be able to buy something . |
| 10 | They assimilate , they analyze , they consider and then they make a decision or act on things . |
| 11 | People get murdered , they disappear and sometimes they even break the law at weekends . |
| 12 | All children have fads at different times which resolve as quickly as they arrive and so it can be difficult for parents to determine where they should start to draw the line . |
| 13 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 14 | Seneca wrote that ‘ when we want to reach a city or marketplace , we watch where the people are going and we follow them ; but in life we should watch where they go and then we should go in the opposite direction . ’ |
| 15 | I am not arguing that children do not suffer at the hands of adults ; clearly they do and again we have looked at the evidence concerning incidence and prevalence . |
| 16 | Like agricultural people , sometimes they do and sometimes they do not . |
| 17 | And sometimes they do and sometimes they do n't . |
| 18 | It was n't , it was not like quite quiet time , you know , but they said and apparently it can get |
| 19 | And er I joined this territorials they come and then I joined them , and we went to Camp Parkgate for a fortnight . |
| 20 | So take aways sometimes they work and sometimes they give you a nice counting number and sometimes they give you this thing . |
| 21 | I am in no way decrying such methods — perhaps they work and perhaps they do not — but I do feel that they are open to considerable abuse . |
| 22 | So we paid that because they wanted and then we had to pay for stock . |