Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is what they want to learn and at the speed they want to learn it . |
| 2 | Frankly I 'm not surprised : look at the amount of garbage they choose to store . |
| 3 | Every motion sent her senses reeling , deeper and deeper into the furnace they had entered together , until at last , as she soared to a height of such intensity of feeling that she thought she must burst , something exploded in her brain , and she was awash with the dizzying sensation of all-consuming love . |
| 4 | ‘ Any artist thinking they have made it when they sign a recording contract is totally wrong , ’ warns Gatfield . |
| 5 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 6 | They wanted to stop then and there for the Sabbath — they and all the little stock they had brought with them . |
| 7 | A director would instruct dealers to tell their clients that an announcement was pending " in order to persuade them to buy more or to hold on to stock they wished to sell . |
| 8 | Marketmakers are able to offset against dividends received any dividends paid by them on stock they have purchased . |
| 9 | when I was doing that bit of collecting you know , and the people next , either side they 'd bought these council houses , you know , it 's a shame really |
| 10 | The girls , as in her mind she thought of the Misses Cardings , had trimmed it with a deep tone of lime-green velvet ribbon and in the heart of the bow at the side they had placed two tiny red silk rosebuds . |
| 11 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 12 | IN 1963 ABC TV published the findings of an experiment they had conducted some time earlier into the perception thresholds of children watching Television . |
| 13 | BRAZIL 's 1-0 victory over what amounted to a Holland B team in Rotterdam on Wednesday night continued the process of pragmatic regeneration they have undergone since the desultory performances in Europe last summer which left some observers wondering whether they would qualify for the World Cup at all . |
| 14 | In order to establish how police work is accomplished , therefore , it is necessary to examine such things as the common-sense notions ordinary policemen and women have about their role , what they consider to be the essence of police work , what typifications and categorizations infuse the practical reasoning they employ to accomplish policing tasks , and what ‘ recipes ’ or guide-lines they adopt in undertaking the various aspects of their job . |
| 15 | One does not have to agree with Shumiatski 's aim of revolutionizing the masses to accept these remarks as a nice corrective to those views of Chaplin as a proletarian and whatever the political reasoning they do offer insights into the psychology and social psychology of the ‘ little man 's ’ persona . |
| 16 | And er the bedroom they 've given me I can see |
| 17 | They are instructed in ‘ pleasuring ’ or ‘ sensate focus ’ , whereby in the privacy of their own bedroom they have to experiment with handling , fondling , and massaging their partner with the purpose of learning what gives most pleasure to the other and to the self . |
| 18 | But she could n't just desert them , either ; for several members of the cast this play of Josh Thayer 's was the first decent break they 'd had , and she knew from dressing-room conversations just how much personal and emotional investment they 'd made in its success . |
| 19 | The investment they make goes into a fund combining equities , fixed interest and cash . |
| 20 | Three times in succession they have fallen in the semi-finals , and Beenhakker 's departure became a formality when they were thrashed 5-0 by Milan at San Siro last season . |
| 21 | they do n't talk so the language changes all the time , and each time they bring out a new d dictionary they try to say erm this is the way people talk , and bring it up to date so that we 're not all talking in the past . |
| 22 | As a result they had taken him to the police , and then Sommerville had been questioned . |
| 23 | A large part of their earnings went back again to the USA for investment ; as a result they had to pay Belpan National Bank 's transfer charges twice . |
| 24 | In the result they sought to rely on a very undefined rule of confidentiality that had recently been confirmed in relation to the suppression of memoirs by the Duke of Argyll about his wife 's life , and in one or two other very dissimilar instances . |
| 25 | As a result they tend to accept their situation as normal and natural , right and proper . |
| 26 | And consumption of food tends to be higher in sedentary people ; as a result they tend to have lower metabolic rates than active people and an increased chance of becoming even fatter . |
| 27 | As a result they have contributed to the public consultation process which accompanies the development of such plans , and have always sought to ensure that local planning policies are properly implemented in relation to the assessment of individual applications . |
| 28 | The ineffectiveness of prosecution , or the threat of prosecution , to deter large stores from Sunday opening has caused local authorities , who are charged with the enforcement of section 47 , to search for a more effective remedy , and as a result they have resorted to seeking injunctions to restrain stores from infringing the section . |
| 29 | As a result they begin to see themselves differently . |
| 30 | For the athletes , the decision was a vindication of the the innocence they had protested all along . |