Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [conj] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their main duty was to arrest wanted persons ; they rarely reported or investigated crime during the early years of colonial rule . |
| 2 | Sometimes these first impressions are so strong that they stubbornly linger and defy revision even when different signals are being transmitted by subsequent visual behaviours . |
| 3 | Vincent was never to forget the straightforwardness of this man and his direct , open way with him , though they soon quarrelled and parted company . |
| 4 | The aim was to give the writers the advance information they always sought and to gain interest from cinemas . |
| 5 | The smaller species of mustelid , although they prey on small mammals , eat little of the bone , and they frequently catch and eat prey larger than themselves . |