Example sentences of "they [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below , they revealed nothing but a thin haze . |
| 2 | They got one off the Welsh side in October in a 1-1 draw . |
| 3 | Often co-operating with reputable frying equipment manufacturers and suppliers , they test everything from the critical point at which a food product fries best , to the recovery times for oil temperatures . |
| 4 | Now , we you have neutrons and protons , they interact one with the other , but the particle that carries the interaction is not the photon , it 's the new particle called the meson , and you have got smaller particles , much less massive particles than neutrons and protons , and these are called mesons or pye mesons , and the pye meson has erm a mass which is typically a tenth of that of a proton . |
| 5 | These were demanded relentlessly by the Russian government and by traders because of their commercial value , but they contributed nothing to the natural economy of the natives . |
| 6 | Neither did the very many railwaymen who were concerned with passengers , nor , since the canal companies did not usually operate as carriers , did they employ anything like the same number of men in handling freight . |
| 7 | During field-work there was only one incident related to sexual abuse , and this was dealt with by policemen , and while they showed something of a blasé attitude towards it in feeling that the victim was ‘ hardly touched ’ and the offender ‘ did n't do anything anyway ’ ( FN 2/11/87 , pp. 5–6 ) , they pursued the case thoroughly . |
| 8 | They preserved something of the golden age when , as Seneca says , " penes sapientes fuisse regnum Posidonius indicat " ( Ep . |
| 9 | But many of the Premier Division players claim they know nothing about the current drug-testing programme . |
| 10 | I ask if they know anything about the snowy owl . |
| 11 | After thirty years of British rule , observed the distinguished scholar-administrator Henry Fosbrooke , they displayed none of the distressing symptoms of that ‘ soul erosion ’ , defined by him as a ‘ deterioration in obedience to existing moral standards , a falling off in observance of organized religion , a lack of purpose in life ’ , which seemed so often to be the result of British efforts to bring civilization to the African . |
| 12 | And they believe someone in the local community is hiding the killer . |
| 13 | They knew nothing about the drive-away alternative , neither did we but it was n't hard to find out . |
| 14 | But Packer 's difficulties are worth recognising because not only do they reveal something of the cultural context within which Auerbach 's work signifies , they also typify — albeit unconsciously — the burden of historiography and the demands of convention in writing about anything that purports to be a portrait . |
| 15 | All of his poems are filled with a quiet irony ; a message to those patriotic leaders and potential soldiers , removing the glory and honour from war — they strip everything but the bare facts from the issue of war and show it as it is , from first-hand experience . |
| 16 | In the case of many of the former British territories in Africa they had something of a common industrial relations heritage built around an institutional framework in the British mould which was fostered by colonial administrations . |
| 17 | They had nothing but the meagre income provided by supplementary benefit . |
| 18 | Not that they had anything against the original character or film ; far from it . |
| 19 | Afterwards they fitted everything into a big box . |
| 20 | The trouble with architect-designed houses on estates is that they have nothing like an open fire . |
| 21 | This mixture of fish gets on fine in my tank , except when a week after buying them , the Rainbows spawned which caused chaos as they pushed everything to the other end of the tank . |