Example sentences of "[noun] they [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If someone has offered you free riding on their horse they are not going to appreciate finding their yard covered in droppings and scattered with grooming kit after you have left , or that you abandoned a sweaty horse without seeing to it after you have ridden . |
| 2 | I would have thought that for Morecambe they 're probably looking at like a thousand eleven hundred people if , you know |
| 3 | Jack had gone to India soon afterwards , and although Susan wore no ring they were definitely engaged , and everyone took it for granted that they would marry as soon as circumstances would permit . |
| 4 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 5 | That way , they query nothing and never answer back ; as a result they are not known for their political judgement , but , during the Depression they were jolted into social awareness . |
| 6 | Even when she closed her eyes they were still daggered by its scintillations . |
| 7 | Alan Steele signalled there was to be no let-up in the pressure when he rattled in the ninth goal 30 seconds into the second period , and though the visitors replied with two goals they were still chasing shadows . |
| 8 | There was a few in the lads they were just did n't want to do this picket line . |
| 9 | Despite CGT opposition they were warmly received . |
| 10 | This form is to be completed if a group or number of groups wish to have a status report on the entries they are presently working on . |
| 11 | Look at the words they 're actually putting in , passion , loving , potions , you see what I mean |
| 12 | Had the German attack been mounted on 12 February , as planned , the French , caught as it were in transit — for though now aware of the impending peril they were only beginning to bring up reinforcements — must have been overcome in a total and horrible manner . |
| 13 | Now you know when someone says golden opportunities they 're not paying you . |
| 14 | Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged . |
| 15 | Made from washable soft plush fabric they are usually priced at £26 . |
| 16 | Sure enough , they soon saw Mait , as he rushed out of the other side of a grotto they were just entering . |
| 17 | These factors are worthy of emphasis because in practice they are still dealt with very badly in many organisations and yet it takes little trouble or expertise to make an enormous difference . |
| 18 | They can not have it both ways and , at the moment , by making such demands they are unwittingly pushing the game towards professionalism . |
| 19 | In many respects they were not deceived by the images of life portrayed in women 's literature but had a very realistic idea of what married life held in store for them . |
| 20 | As a rule they are only killed for food ( and then only cocks or old hens ) when an important visitor comes to the homestead , perhaps a prince 's son or perhaps a father-in-law . |
| 21 | On the next waking they are then encouraged again to inhibit urination if they can . |
| 22 | The terrorists know that by hitting commercial buildings and their insurers they are also hitting at a British Government faced with potentially huge underwriting costs even as it is desperate to find ways of bringing down the public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 23 | Because they are made of protein they are rapidly inactivated at temperatures over 50°C and certainly boiling would render any you put in a carp bait totally inactive . |
| 24 | The Baughs checked the original offer letter carefully and they say it did not state clearly that once people have accepted , there was no way out and it certainly did not mention the excessive opt-out figure they were later quoted . |
| 25 | But it says , by law , if you 're on the scene they 're not allowed to clamp it 's , you know they 're supposed |
| 26 | By the time the pollice get on the scene they 're well gone . |
| 27 | Under tax and social security law they are normally regarded as dependent employees , but under labour law most are regarded as self-employed . |
| 28 | ‘ It is unusual that police took such action , but by law they are fully covered to do that . ’ |
| 29 | Mixed with QACs they are widely used as skin disinfectants and are mainly associated with medical uses as are chlorhexidine gluconate and cetrimide . |
| 30 | When enterprises plan their production on the criterion of profitability they are only honouring their obligation to their shareholders — — to earn them a reasonable return on their money — and if those shareholders are institutions which are in turn merely trustees of the people 's savings … well , evidently notions of class struggle and exploitation must be out of date . |