Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in any case , the best proof of the pudding is in the eating — by which I mean that any one who has tried to help young poets over the years , whether in Britain or America , knows that Ford 's and the imagists ' precepts about diction are what most of them most need to learn — no novelty , after all , since they can learn the same lessons from the preface to Lyrical Ballads , if they choose to . |
| 2 | For all their bluster about foreign conspiracy , the foreigners who worry them most live not in the United States or Western Europe but in Hungary , Poland and the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Swallows and house martins have dispensed with them altogether to gain a clear view of the insects they catch on the wing . |
| 4 | They had just overwhelmingly repulsed an unprovoked attack by a European power , and their past history gave them little cause to regard Europeans with favour . |
| 5 | No adult insect can produce silk , so these ants bring young larvae to the site , holding them between their jaws and giving them little squeezes so that the larvae will produce their silk . |
| 6 | The labour movement has made hardly any use of its own scholars and intellectuals , and gives them little support , so that many drift through higher education into roles that have little relationship with their origins and aspirations . |
| 7 | I 'll bring them little divils back to the house for ye , mam . |
| 8 | She treats them like a pair of toy dogs , throwing them little treats when they 're good to make them more dependent on her . ’ |
| 9 | France has 40 resorts and Spain 31 , most of them little known over here but none the worse for that , provided you can speak the appropriate language . |
| 10 | Mary , my eldest sister , had taken the day off work and had washed the curtains but for lack of time to dry them properly had hung them back up wet . |
| 11 | Not all Thom 's conclusions are fully accepted , but to understand them properly requires a knowledge of mathematics , statistics , surveying , astronomy , and archaeology — not a common combination . |
| 12 | I keep saying when they get sort of quite long that I 'll have them properly shaped and |
| 13 | She would not part with her shoes for long enough for me to have them properly repaired . |
| 14 | Write these down and get them properly agreed with your boss . |
| 15 | But when she was very sad she understood that sorrow casts out fear , and then the murderer could call with a few of his friends and she would tell them wearily to bugger off and they would go , since , after all , there can be no satisfaction in murdering the dead . |
| 16 | The cummerbund , meant to be worn with the singlebreasted jacket , is also acceptable , but I fear I find them rather affected . |
| 17 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 18 | It was felt that the TUCCs would not have the time or resources necessary to look after the wide range of services and operators , many of them locally based , in the bus sector . |
| 19 | He recruited two Iranian brothers who were already British agents and brought them secretly tot eh Unties States for further training . |
| 20 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 21 | The white boys admire the cheek of the black lad who nicks their Kentucky'n'chips , as well as wanting to beat him up for it , just as many of them secretly envy and try to emulate the black street style which at another level they experience as so invasive . |
| 22 | When they went up to the study Ethel and Mary waited outside with the little trays of sundries , catching glimpses of the people in the room , all of them nervously talking in high voices . |
| 23 | One of them discreetly asks how the other 's business is doing . |
| 24 | But it 's true to say that most actors feel their drama school training has left them inadequately prepared for working in television and film by the time they graduate . |
| 25 | But Mr. Munby so treated them because , in his submission , section 8 conferred complete autonomy on such minors , thus enabling them effectively to refuse medical treatment irrespective of how parental responsibilities might be sought to be exercised . |
| 26 | It is essential therefore that bodies manage their finances efficiently and apply them effectively to maintain development . |
| 27 | Most travellers consider them irritatingly slow over distances of more than 150 metres . |
| 28 | We kept very still inside and in the end we could hear them slowly going down the stairs and going away . |
| 29 | That assessment was echoed by the other speakers in the session — Kevin Allard of Bertram Books , David Edyvean of the Gosport Bookshop and Nick Polkinhorne of the Sevenoaks Bookshop — each of whom explained how the application of new technology had enabled them successfully to transform the environment in which they worked . |
| 30 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |