Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] [conj] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specially where specially where they had the baby |
| 2 | It 's more like a luxurious rest-home for geriatrics , except rather than them paying the club , the club is essentially paying them . |
| 3 | We can not conclude with confidence whether pigeons have a map sense at all , and if so whether they use the sun or magnetic co-ordinates . |
| 4 | Subjects are given a particular word — let us say the word lead — and then they listen to a pair of sentences and press a button as soon as they hear the target word . |
| 5 | But as soon as they hear The Old Rugged Cross they 're fine again , ’ he said . |
| 6 | As soon as they saw the car , which had a police sign on the roof , they quietened down . |
| 7 | They took ship as soon as they saw the way things were going in 1934 . |
| 8 | Roberts 's ankle appeared broken , but the Chelsea players were not interested in retribution and the club , as soon as they knew the injury was less serious , put a message on the electronic scoreboard : an example of public relations from which others could learn . |
| 9 | In London , the Compact has been so successful that children who would previously have left as soon as they reached the school-leaving age of sixteen , are deciding to stay on at school to take further exams . |
| 10 | The three boys had always assumed , as soon as they reached the age for such assumptions , that Charles had married Liz in order to provide the three motherless babes with a proper family life . |
| 11 | But as soon as they reached the living room , she saw his face clearly in the light of the candles . |
| 12 | As soon as they reached the Embankment Father Watson began to speak in measured tones . |
| 13 | The servants themselves were increasingly and overwhelmingly women — between 1841 and 1881 the percentage of men in domestic offices and personal services in Britain fell from about 20 to about 12 — so that the ideal bourgeois household consisted of a male lord dominating a number of hierarchically graded females , all the more so as male children tended to leave the home as they grew up , or even — among the British upper classes — as soon as they reached the age of boarding school . |
| 14 | As soon as they heard the angelus ring they gathered from all over the big house to the supper table . |
| 15 | As soon as they finished the first course Rodney raised his wine glass . |
| 16 | However , as soon as they remove the weather-vane , several things happen very rapidly . |
| 17 | Culture shock and seasickness strike as soon as they board the North Sea Ferry ! |
| 18 | With headaches the pain will almost always disappear ( while I am working on them ) as soon as they release the tension that has caused the pain . |
| 19 | He was pleased to see that as soon as they left the abbey gate , they were joined by the soldiers Sir James Selkirk had stationed near the abbey . |
| 20 | All except a couple of knights , which vanished as soon as they left the board itself . |
| 21 | But WIN was leaking like a sieve , the Polish militia were told in advance and the men were picked up as soon as they touched the ground . |
| 22 | As soon as they succeed the next person in the team bursts her balloon and the game continues until everyone has finished . |
| 23 | But , just like adults , children appear to repair such forms as soon as they retrieve the conventional word from memory . |
| 24 | ‘ As soon as they get the ball , their intention is to get it into the box as quickly as possible and to finish with a shot . |
| 25 | This is important when the fish are in the swim and perhaps ready to bite as soon as they see the bait sinking through the water . |
| 26 | Male lesser waxmoths and bush katydids call to their mates using ultrasound , but avoid being overheard by ceasing their courtship sounds as soon as they sense the approach of a bat . |
| 27 | Young children hear stories either told or read from a very early age and , as soon as they have the skill , they read them themselves . |
| 28 | The paths that viruses pursue when they infect begin to diverge as soon as they encounter the outside of the cells they invade . |
| 29 | As soon as they hit the ground he rolled , shoving Isabel beneath him . |
| 30 | I had sweat all over my face and as soon as they opened the door I just went for one of them . |