Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were Polish and Dutch boats as well as the Scottish , but they mostly packed their catch to take home . |
| 2 | Every six weeks an EITB officer has called in to monitor their progress and on they successfully completed their training . |
| 3 | There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly . |
| 4 | They rarely showed their hair on stage as enormous head-dresses or wigs were worn . |
| 5 | Indeed , they vigorously opposed their unionisation . |
| 6 | Alain asked quietly as they slowly made their way to the car later . |
| 7 | They acutely felt its loss ; the loss of their independence in both the public and private spheres ; the constant financial pressures ; and the frustrations of having ‘ to live every day at home in poverty ’ . |
| 8 | Well , they eventually got their chance , during a rest day at the Monte Carlo Open . |
| 9 | Though the republicans lost the war , they eventually won their case with their successful introduction of the republican constitution of 1937 . |
| 10 | They eventually narrowed their focus to three subjects : submerged aquatic vegetation , such toxic substances as chemicals and herbicides , and the bay 's ever-fluctuating supply of nutrients , nitrogen and phosphorus in particular . |
| 11 | Do they effectively manage your empire with detailed rules on expenditure ? |
| 12 | And all the firms are claiming that they only get their hardwood from government erm replanting programmes . |
| 13 | They only get your skin clean ma . |
| 14 | They only change their form |
| 15 | I mean they only had their door there and letting in draughts and them running in and out you see we put that there look . |
| 16 | They only noticed his absence . |
| 17 | Are you going to have mounted policemen following the hunt round to ensure that they only steer their course along certain ways ? |
| 18 | GH-K are no strangers to such nail-biting circumstances since they only retained their position this season when they found themselves with a better points differential to Stewart's-Melville , who have subsequently won promotion . |
| 19 | The impacts of traffic on street life were described as ‘ subtle , complex and , in many instances , very destructive ’ by Donald Appleyard in his pioneering work in the 1970s Pushkarev and Zupan agree , though they perhaps express their view with more poetic licence : |
| 20 | Clare and Dawn , and former receptionist Angela Pelling ( who now works in the Transport Department with Hazel Thorpe ) were all previously hairdressers , but are agreed that they much prefer their work at Rentokil . |
| 21 | I think you just have to accept that you have fairly shy fish — but they obviously like their home , as they are breeding . |
| 22 | It was during Diana 's trip to the Gulf with the Prince , when they suddenly spotted her obstetrician , George Pinker , in Bahrain , among the guests at an official dinner . |
| 23 | A fair conclusion might be that Kennedy found it helpful — perhaps therapeutic — to talk to Ormsby-Gore and Macmillan whether or not they basically influenced his thinking . |
| 24 | It was n't just the blood-groups that worried her ; they merely confirmed her suspicion . |
| 25 | They just lose their balance occasionally . |
| 26 | Colchester Lathe Company was started in Colchester , they just sold their site to Tescos ! |
| 27 | They just teach their subject and that 's it . |
| 28 | well they have n't actually , have n't got or anything they just use their body . |
| 29 | No , no they just take your word for it and now I have got as I said , I 've got that , I 've got to paint that over and reseal and I 've got to make sure that nobody makes a mess in there , but the plumber said what you really need to do is to get rid of this cheap and tatty , horrible plastic tray which does n't come right to the edge of the tiles |
| 30 | ‘ They just assumed my house was the same as the rest around here — big and worth a lot of money . |