Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well my mother was one of the pillars of the Palfrey church and er she er oh I went , my father never used to go , but she used to go and of course I , I used to be an altar server down there when I got a bit older I did for a week or two to the erm do you know anything about an Anglo-Catholic Church I mean where they swing the incense and there is this little boy with the boat ? |
| 2 | Neither , I believe , are they so easy to train , and I suggest that they lack the brain power of the Norfolk . |
| 3 | Those aspects of the context which are directly reflected in the text , and which need to be called upon to interpret the text , we shall refer to as activated features of context and suggest that they constitute the contextual framework within which the topic is constituted , that is , the topic framework . |
| 4 | Of course , we do n't know that they gave the police the same alibi , do we ? ’ |
| 5 | Do n't let the boys know that they have the power to cause a rift between you and your husband . |
| 6 | In the simple model above each firm must know that the other 's costs are identical to its own , and must know that they have the same beliefs about the market demand function as well as in the credibility of the punishment that would result from a deviation . |
| 7 | EMPLOYEES are reminded that they have the chance to take part in a special bone marrow register clinic . |
| 8 | The Staufer maintained that they accepted the magisterial primacy of the Roman Church — the pope 's power to approve and anoint the emperor — but they challenged the jurisdictional primacy , namely the pope 's claim to appoint the emperor . |
| 9 | Landlords are continuing to issue occupiers of their property with " licence agreements " ; only a very small proportion will appreciate that they are not bound by the agreement they have signed , and realise that they have the right to a fair rent and security of tenure . |
| 10 | Miners say that they indicate the whereabouts of the ore by tapping on the shaft walls with their antler-picks , hence the name . |
| 11 | They say that they like the subject and the colours . |
| 12 | Most teachers say that they like the parents of the children they teach to be involved in their children 's education , in fact I think nearly all teachers would say that . |
| 13 | The great majority of lenders say that they see the courts as an unfruitful last resort , and would prefer to make some special arrangements ( smaller but regular payments , say ) as soon as a customer gets into difficulties . |
| 14 | Mothers often say that they say the same things over and over again and end up losing their tempers in order to get a response . |
| 15 | The parties declare that this is their intention ( see clause 15.2 ) and in clause 15.3 acknowledge that they consider the restrictions to be reasonable . |
| 16 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 17 | Some football hooligans , the article goes on , are now so organised that they have the audacity to leave professionally printed calling cards in the pockets of their battered victims . |
| 18 | Congestions ; they feel so oppressed that they want the window open , especially at night . |
| 19 | Studies on savants who can tell you the day of the week on which you were born found that they followed the rules of a calendar to work out the dates . |
| 20 | A review of American schemes carried out in 1990 by the General Accounting Office found that they reduced the total amount of litter by 10–20% by weight and 40–60% by volume . |
| 21 | When R. Hoy put these hybrid females on a Y-maze he found that they preferred the songs of hybrid males to those of either parental species . |
| 22 | Of particular interest in the light of Professor Shorter 's remarks , is the finding that many women in the survey who were not raped did not consider that they had the right to refuse sex with their husbands . |
| 23 | I think they 've built They 've opened London offices , many of them , if those offices grow so they acquire the sort of breadth and depth of experience in the relevant areas that the big firms have got and at the moment er they may not have , then of course they 'll be more and more competitive . |
| 24 | ‘ I do not know if they searched the balls , but they arrived at Wrexham in good order and have gone on sale , ’ said Mr Stokes . |
| 25 | I do n't know if they do the same over here |
| 26 | I am almost tempted to produce some enormous prize for any bookseller who can furnish me with a list of the shortlisted titles , or even let me know if they have the winning title in stock : I feel confident that I would have no takers . |
| 27 | ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money . |
| 28 | The Football Association will wait until they receive the report of match referee Joe Worrall before deciding whether to take action over the mass confrontation which took place after Pointon 's tackle . |
| 29 | There were too many people who badly needed dentistry and looked like they played the banjo . |
| 30 | BACK IN the bad old days when home-bred Open champions were a rarity , it was said that British golfers did n't win because they regarded the event as something special , while the Americans regarded it as just another tournament on the circuit . |