Example sentences of "[noun] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Westerners , on the other hand , attribute to themselves many characteristics they most dislike and , moreover , grant these a powerful explanatory role . |
| 2 | Both he and Fagan were outgrowing the proper age for coping with forward two-year-olds — hence the breaking and making of the Hunter class of horse they reluctantly put behind them . |
| 3 | The norms of good legislative behaviour had lost the potency they once had , as former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said on his retirement in 1976 : The democratization of the Senate proceeded further after Mansfield left . |
| 4 | In fairness to this young and skilful Victorians side they just did n't count yesterday as Randalstown were a class apart . |
| 5 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 6 | However , a firm may treat a client or counterparty as a market counterparty by virtue of its status as a member of a listed category only if : ( 1 ) The investment is of the right kind ; this will mean seeking information in advance from overseas persons as to the kinds of investment they regularly deal in and , if necessary , from exchange members as to the kinds of investment dealt in on the exchange ; ( 2 ) Normally , the firm notifies the client or counterparty in writing in advance that it will be treated as a market counterparty ( so that a notification is essential , except as referred to below ) and he has not told the firm that he does not want to be treated as a market counterparty in relation to the investments concerned . |
| 7 | Jolyon Jenkins ' selective and tendentious ramblings through old news ( ‘ Crying out for Argentina ’ , 3 April ) do little to provide your readership with the sort of balanced and impartial view of the Falklands they surely deserve . |
| 8 | Hanley confirmed the rout as he completed a hat-trick in perhaps his best performance of the season to give Leeds the result they urgently needed . |
| 9 | IT WAS the result they least expected and most feared . |
| 10 | Dislike of party lists is often fortified by dark suspicions about the quality of the candidates they supposedly include . |
| 11 | Even if the walker or climber has an ice axe they only have two or three seconds to stop themselves before their bodies , often clad in slippy waterproofs , pick up speed . |
| 12 | The Rutland jurors swore on 7 December 1299 that all the vills and lands outside the bounds they then set out had been afforested in the time of King John . |
| 13 | Even with housed animals they normally gave their husbands a helping hand . |
| 14 | From another encylopedia , this time of African animals , she identified for us some of the small animals they occasionally caught and ate . |
| 15 | Erm certainly I think all of our quarry , the quarry , I think we were overwhelmed with the support because it was really in our place that the dispute started and a lot of other people who I 'd spoken to you know they they were amazed at the support we received and , seemed to be the shyer the people you know the , some of the lads they never spoke much at lodge meetings , but after a while they 'd be getting up and saying their pieces and , you know I think it 's just because you knew you had backing , and people helping and urging you on , advising you , and the union helping and you know they leant over backwards in various fields to help us . |
| 16 | But it never did it any good they never got to run their own economy . |
| 17 | Honeymoon and silver anniversary couples receive a bottle of sparkling wine at all hotels and at the Garden Club they also receive flowers or fruit . |
| 18 | Labour challenge that view and a determined to win back a seat they once held . |
| 19 | Such are the smooth , easy driving qualities of the big-engined Corrado ( the same engine is also available in the VW Golf and Vento saloons ) that I suspect that this is the sort of car that drivers will appreciate when they own it , be sorry when they sell it , and describe it for years as the finest car they ever owned . |
| 20 | I think ahm there 's the N C T would erm at Woodmanston they just started about three weeks ago , three or four weeks ago . |
| 21 | Because of the term 's many meanings , and the confusion they therefore create , it is proposed in these pages to avoid them where-ever possible Resource-based learning , like resource-based teaching , can obviously exemplify " educational technology " in one or other meaning , but a surprising number of teachers would indignantly deny that they had been practising it ; in some cases , this implies disagreement or scepticism with the claims made by some sell styled " educational technologists ' ( meaning 5 ) and in other cases derives simply from a misunderstanding . |
| 22 | Saudi Arabia and Egypt clashed through the parties they respectively supported in the Yemen civil war in the 1960s . |
| 23 | Party leaders and committee chairmen no longer carried the weight they once had and ordinary members now assumed that the secret of holding one 's seat in perpetuity depended on their success in cultivating their district . |
| 24 | There , individual humming-birds whose weight has decreased to 3 — 3.5 g stop for periods of a week or two ; after they have put on about 1.5 — 2 g weight they then move on again . |
| 25 | I was born a poor black boy down in Mississippi , out in Alabama and he 's like a jet white ai n't he ? and he says I always felt different cos all the other kids they just sit there and they 'd be tapping their feet and then you go onto the oh and they 're getting the old rhythm going , like they do and he 'd be going like I all so different I could n't quite do this and he used to get in look , and er |
| 26 | One government pamphlet complained how scarcely any of the Anglican clergy could find it in their hearts to thank the King , " and those Few that pretend to do it , have proceeded so Awkwardly in their Acknowledgments , as renders them of very little Value , since in the same addresses they also pressed for " the continuance of those Penal Laws , which diametrically oppose … the Royal Indulgence " . |
| 27 | When they introduced computers they also taught her typing and keyboard skills . |
| 28 | Tuesday comes and I 'm all set to head down when diaster strikes ( stupid computers they never do what you tell them to ) and the trip is cancelled . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've told them that I was fighting Franco and he 's a Fascist the same as Hitler , but once these fellows get an idea in their heads they just do n't listen . ’ |
| 30 | Police found credit cards in both the name of Garawand and Yousefi they also took the keys to a white Ford Transit van , which they discovered in a car park . |