Example sentences of "they [verb] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | done up neatly , salmon pink on beige — they squeal and stub their noses out , |
| 2 | He got rid of oppositionists by proposing some impossible task , and when they failed or refused would move their expulsion , anyone who voted against automatically expelling themselves . |
| 3 | I thought of Tagore who said , ‘ withhold from me the things that man desire and want ; leave me only what they despise and overlook , they will be enough for me . ’ |
| 4 | Kraal was referring to the fact that in Scotland golden eagles are enemies of the buzzard , whom they despise and seek to chase off their territory . |
| 5 | Do they enhance or diminish a sense of self-esteem and a feeling of personal security or are they intimidating ? |
| 6 | The question is , do they enhance or impair the church 's evangelistic ministry ? |
| 7 | These wolf calls middle peasants because , although they were squatting illegally on the land , in practice they owned and worked their small plots . |
| 8 | They lay and held each other . |
| 9 | Men were trampled on where they lay or tried to rise , pavilions were trodden down , tentage swept aside , stacks of arms tumbled . |
| 10 | Just for a second it seemed to Polly that they met and lingered on hers . |
| 11 | According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships . |
| 12 | She did n't really know what it was about him which made her go pale whenever they met and kept her awake at night longing . |
| 13 | ( 27 March 1770 ) Then in Florence they met and befriended a young violinist , Thomas Linley ( 1756–1778 ) ( PLATE III ) |
| 14 | Harris allegedly became besotted shortly after they met and told friends he could not live without her . |
| 15 | But Derek , 33 , was quietly confident when they met and vowed : ‘ I 'm determined to give them a run for their money . ’ |
| 16 | Similarly there is only a fog , when it comes to crimes committed by governments ( Douglas and Johnson 1977 ) , particularly when these victimize Third World countries ( Shawcross 1979 ) or become genocidal ( Brown 1971 , Horowitz 1977 ) , or by governmental control agencies such as the police when they assault or use deadly force unwarrantedly against the public or suspected persons ( see Chapter 3 ) , or prison officers ( Coggan and Walker 1982 ; Thomas and Pooley 1980 ) , or special prison hospital staff when they brutalize and torture persons in their protective custody . |
| 17 | The friends of Montrose who supported the various candidates were very troublesome , for political management required careful and friendly replies , and it was clear that they could not all be given the answers they expected or hoped to receive . |
| 18 | And the soldiers muttered to one another as they limped and splashed back towards England that the black friars had not only sent the terror , but withdrawn it from them as soon as they turned back , and the devil their master could call it up again in an instant if they so much as looked over their shoulders . |
| 19 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
| 20 | United 's best chances came in the first half , but Barnsley gave as good as they got and went close once or twice . |
| 21 | The gang , in effect , agreed to hand over to the mining company all of the ore they got and accept a certain proportion of its value . |
| 22 | Those responsible are having problems adapting to adult life and we try to help , to give them the skills they lack and to get them to do something constructive in the community . ’ |
| 23 | The feast over , both groups descend into the valley where they dance and sing for about an hour . |
| 24 | They dance and sing and make bawdy jokes . |
| 25 | They grazed and possessed her mouth as if he was utterly certain of her response to him , and his certainty was fell founded . |
| 26 | And some wene they close and conteyne the worlde in theyr hondes … and therefore they put not theyr hondes to take mete … ’ paranoid patients ‘ fall in to full euyll suspiccions without recouer and therfore they hate and blame theyr frendes , and sometyme smite and slee theim ’ . |
| 27 | Just wait till they bring and get down and to get on down |
| 28 | They also get the tusks and the bristles which they sell or barter in India , and a large proportion of the fat , which can be rendered down and used for cooking , or dried and preserved to smear on cuts and bruises . |
| 29 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |
| 30 | There was silence , filled only by the glare of expression , the tension that sparked between them , just as it always had , always would as long as they lived and breathed . |