Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most significant point here is that , whilst being ultimately sharp , quick-witted and astute , there is an alarmingly modest side to them as well ( maybe to be expected seeing as they 've barely put a distance between themselves and their former life in factory jobs and college courses ) . |
| 2 | It starts raining and they rush for the car , where they have an afternoon sleep . |
| 3 | She stopped rehearsing when they reached the end of Act One . |
| 4 | He stopped crying when they arrived at the house . |
| 5 | The messenger ambled out and for no good reason everybody stopped talking until they heard the lock click . |
| 6 | As strategies go this is not a bad one at all , for at least it leaves the people involved feeling that they have some power , purpose and ( usually ) some solidarity with others . |
| 7 | Many are able to continue living as they wish in their own homes . |
| 8 | As cells move upwards from the base , they continue to divide , but , unlike the stem cells , they have lost their immortality and they stop dividing when they approach the surface where they are sloughed off . |
| 9 | In some parts of North America , women are advised not to go camping when they have a period . |
| 10 | Then there was plenty of work for them but then when the erm , the one man buses really got going and they introduced the night safe on the buses , the ticket office was cut drastically , they did n't need to have all this information . |
| 11 | Mrs the plaintiff 's expert thought it was quote , extremely unreasonable to expect Mr and Mrs to continue caring as they do for their daughter , unquote . |
| 12 | People do n't mind waiting if they know |
| 13 | Mr Smith said in an interview on BBC television 's On the Record that he did not expect his colleagues to ‘ spend and spend again' when they took office . |
| 14 | Material things they had in plenty , and though they had moved to cheaper housing she could not actually remember feeling that they had moved down the social ladder at all . |
| 15 | They like analyzing and they like sort of practising or getting involved with complex things sort of complex piece of work very , they 're really happy in the training session to get involved whereas some people if you put something very hard , they 'll actually back away from it wo n't they cos they think well this is new , I do n't really understand this , whereas theorists will ac they actually enjoy they enjoy the stretch they enjoy the challenge . |
| 16 | Elaine keeps saying that they cut a hole in her sister . |
| 17 | One industry chief invited to the ‘ round table ’ declares that top businessmen will stop coming unless they see advantage for themselves . |
| 18 | Many of the musicians were unused to working with dancers and once when the band was out of tempo , the Girls started singing as they danced to get the music synchronized . |
| 19 | They were longing to start cheering but they did n't dare . |
| 20 | These maxima were subject to the proviso that ‘ in such shires and countries that where it hath been and is now used to give less wages , that in those shires and countries they shall give and the taker of the wages be compelled according as they have been used to take . |
| 21 | For Pound may have been wrong in selecting Fascist Italy as the modern society than came nearest to satisfying his Ruskinian demands , and yet right in thinking that societies should be judged according as they met , or failed to meet , that standard . |
| 22 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 23 | They forced themselves to keep going but they had no enthusiasm . |
| 24 | She had to keep going until they reached Ibiza . |
| 25 | very often find knowing that they 've left voluntarily to have babies and have decided not to go back to the job although the job 's been kept open for them . |
| 26 | With women you had to keep persisting before they sank into your arms . |
| 27 | But , despite this fragmentation , strong shared assumptions exist about the character of the discipline overall and we shall risk claiming that they yield only three distinctive approaches . |
| 28 | What is everyone going to start thinking when they see how you 've cut the ground from under my |
| 29 | You 're hopeless at keeping a secret for you make it so obvious that people are sure to keep probing until they 've winkled it out of you . |
| 30 | The study of origins and influences is no substitute for looking directly at what these texts actually say and the very particular felt understanding that they mediate . |