Example sentences of "they [verb] and [adv] [pers pn] " 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 | Find out why men and women became pirates , where they operated and how they met their end . |
| 5 | ‘ We give them everything they want and yet they behave so badly ’ is a frequent complaint . |
| 6 | They go shopping for what they want and mainly they buy from people they know . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Their fossils were therefore studied with great care to try and determine exactly how they moved and how they breathed . |
| 10 | As a consequence , the local Age Concern Groups differ markedly in what they provide and how they provide it . |
| 11 | In addition you can hear what they say and how they say it . |
| 12 | It is easier , for example , to conclude that someone is being abrupt if you only have what they say and how they say it to go on . |
| 13 | It may also prove helpful to talk to other firms which have relocated to find out how they went about planning and executing the relocation , the problems they faced and how they overcame them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Second , what are the values and practices of those working inside such organisations , and how do these affect what they select and how they handle it ? |
| 16 | They assimilate , they analyze , they consider and then they make a decision or act on things . |
| 17 | Over in the US , psychologists at a number of universities are making a serious study of how rumours are born , how they propagate and how they can finally be killed off . |
| 18 | What changes , or what differs between countries , is why they happen and how they take place . |
| 19 | ( 1983 ) have noted the colours of the species they collected and how it may aid the identification of certain species . |
| 20 | People get murdered , they disappear and sometimes they even break the law at weekends . |
| 21 | We must now look at these hamlets : when they originated , how they developed and how they managed the landscape . |
| 22 | The author uses this latter column to mention the artist 's family ties , associations with rulers , where they exhibited and how they signed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | What we 're really asking voters to do is ask searching questions of their candidates to really find out how they feel and how they personally feel about the environment and how that spin-off would become part of their council thinking . |
| 25 | We made some changes and they worked and then we made some changes that did not work . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | For a more extensive discussion of schemata , how they differ and how they function , see Singleton ( 1981 ) . |
| 28 | What they observe and how they are received will have a great impact on how they perceive the service and those who work within it . |
| 29 | The idea is to make them reach into their minds and recognise what they did and why they did it . |
| 30 | In later chapters ( such as chapter six ) we will examine doubts like these in depth to see how they arise and how they can be resolved . |