Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they lacked was Mr Pozsgay 's eloquence , access to the media and the ability to relate these lofty ideas to the man and woman in the street . |
| 2 | She questioned whether what they lacked was not ruthless ambition . |
| 3 | They are no longer refusing to accept the evidence of their own eyes but are hoping there may be some sort of rational explanation for what they fear is an irrational event . |
| 4 | ‘ A lot of prisoners would never dream of reading one of Shakespeare 's plays because they fear being out of their depth . |
| 5 | Whatever the reticence of archaeologists on the matter — perhaps they fear being thought fanciful by their academic colleagues — excavations have begun to confirm the details in legends and myths . |
| 6 | I am sufficiently egotistical to believe that one of the reasons why they failed was that I was not present . |
| 7 | scene which they revealed was an ugly one . |
| 8 | They were protected from enemies by their isolation and the land they cultivated was boundlessly fertile . |
| 9 | Almost all the information they gain is given freely and with the tacit or blind approval of Western governments . |
| 10 | The extreme sensitivity they gain is invaluable in their quiet desert home . |
| 11 | The knowledge they gain is often fascinating in its own right , but economic and social historians believe that an understanding of past change is also vital in helping us to understand today 's society . |
| 12 | But whereas , in the former , the lovers are effete , foppish and ultimately doomed , in They Wouldn't 's Gay Yardie routine , the characters Rupert and Denzel are ‘ two rough-up , ragamuffin characters ’ who exit the stage arm in arm and very much alive , leaving the audience with no option but to confront their own prejudices . |
| 13 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 14 | The difficulties which they met were formidable , and as much political as scientific . |
| 15 | It merits the longest entry devoted to any one person in Boswell 's account , and no more than two sentences in Johnson 's : the person they met was Flora Macdonald , who had helped Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape after Culloden . |
| 16 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 17 | ‘ They got a governmen' like they theenk this one real country excep' all they got is couple hun'red thousan' people . ’ |
| 18 | And they got are the kids alive ? |
| 19 | GRANT took Tottenham in 1987 with a 4,141 majority ; he was already notorious for his comments made after the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 — ‘ the youths around here believe the police were to blame for what happened on Sunday and what they got was a bloody good hiding ’ . |
| 20 | Officers employed in northern Europe , where much of the navy was inevitably disposed , had little patronage at their disposal , and what they got was obtained only after a battle with the Board of Admiralty . |
| 21 | Indeed , all they got was a great amount of sympathy and a £1000 bonus ! |
| 22 | The first pay they got was two the the first I remember people gillying for the Stenness Hotel , their pay was two and six and a gill of whisky . |
| 23 | And it was good whisky they got was too new made you see . |
| 24 | All they got was the usual complacent , superficial parroting of the empty nonsense about commitments and guarantees . |
| 25 | All they got was embarrassed . |
| 26 | I 'm glad to say they all finished as friends over a glass of beer … but there were no cheers for the Tredworth rugby team from Gloucester on saturday … they were hoping for a fairy tale in their Provincial Cup Semi-Final … sadly what they got was a horror story |
| 27 | But when they arrived what they got was far from a welcome home . |
| 28 | Regrettably , last night 's audience was a meagre one , but what they got was impressive , to say the least . |
| 29 | But er the extra money they got was no worth taking the job . |
| 30 | Think it was some margarine or All they got was the , you know , |