Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 2 | Across the small table in the basement club where they now sat , Rune 's light eyes challenged her statement . |
| 3 | The report published by the Indonesian Government and the action that they subsequently took — for example , against certain military commanders involved in the incident — show that they are not concerned simply with a cover-up . |
| 4 | Our participants had the clear perception that they also have powers within the classroom , conceived as a specific social setting , and they act to establish themselves and their powers . |
| 5 | John always said that they spent more money restoring the facade than they ever spent on the thousands of workers who worked inside the plant , but then when it closed they could n't knock it down , so they turned it into a superstore . |
| 6 | As peregrines have been known to dive at a speed of 180 miles an hour , they hit their prey with such force that they often break its neck , and sometimes even break the head clean off . |
| 7 | Small peasant farmers can not compete with capitalist concerns , with the result that they often lose their land to them and end up working for them or migrating to the towns in search of wage labour . |
| 8 | Soviet officials are taking the cruise-missile threat very seriously , though , bearing in mind that they also face similar weapons carried by B52 bombers and nuclear submarines . |
| 9 | The have had er a long grade of time since the complaint was put to the commission , to put a notification in if they wanted to protect their position , but still they could of done so on , on a precautionary basis , and without prejudice basis they have not done so , a longer standing commissioner had invited them to do so ten years ago , they could do so this week on without prejudice basis and that may erm lead to security in the future that they now seek |
| 10 | At the time of the 1835 emancipation , as also at the cessation of apprenticeship in 1838 , abolitionists enacted rituals of triumph and unity , though it was significant for the future that they now acknowledged differences and , ironically , different abolitionists performed different rituals indicative of unity . |
| 11 | Secondly , the rocks of intrusions are often more resistant to erosion than the surrounding country rock so they frequently form prominent landforms once exposed at the surface . |
| 12 | Of course , if all had been there the second day the justices could well , and should in my judgment , have invited them to consider the intention that they then had to substitute prohibited steps orders for the sought after care order . |
| 13 | The ones able to secure ‘ sugar daddies ’ fooled the poor men into thinking that there was a Tiller rule that they only go out in twos and threes and so managed to get meals for their best friends as well . |
| 14 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 15 | It was a magnificent fightback and such was Welsh distress that they never looked like preventing it . |
| 16 | This fear derives more from a recognition that they often lack the additional personal qualities which they see as necessary for certain types of work , which is why most policemen are reluctant to deal with rape victims or to undertake community and neighbourhood policing . |
| 17 | The rebels were forced to sue for peace — and they received it , but only on condition that they too took the cross . |
| 18 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 19 | Garry Thompson , the Coventry City footballer , told how he was made to take stock of his colour slightly earlier , just after beginning secondary school in Birmingham : ‘ I went up to some guys and asked to play football and they just shut me out . |
| 20 | A sharp word of command and they immediately sat down and waited as their mistress opened the car door . |
| 21 | We contacted British Airways Flying Pets Club and they kindly agreed to fly Des home . |
| 22 | Specialist cells serve other cells in the club and they also benefit from the efficiency of other specialists . |
| 23 | She said I ca n't promise you , so I thought well I 'm sat six months now , so I phoned this ship thing yesterday on the telly called Just Start , no Start Again whatever it 's called and they gave me , they phoned me yesterday and they gave me a number of Cine Hill , Northampton which is the job advisory centre , adults education and then they phoned me yesterday and they told me who to get in touch with so I 've got an appointment Thursday at erm Northampton with the Social Services Department and they apparently map out all the places where you could go , say , say for instance that St Crispin 's is the mental home I can go there and be with the patients and then I can go to the Marina 's and be taught how to lift and how to bed bath and how to manipulate |
| 24 | The youngest ones are the Institute of the future and they only require a little encouragement ( a twist of an arm ) and they will become reliable , enthusiastic committee members , secretaries or chairmen . |
| 25 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 26 | He gave her a speaking glance and they both rushed for his car , neither needing to discuss the question of whether Belinda was willing to donate her blood for Faye . |
| 27 | Four of our six patients with active disease were on steroid therapy and they still had a greater absorption of PEGs than the patients in remission and controls . |
| 28 | News had reached them of the happenings at the manor and they rightly assumed that with Tom in charge of the manor farm they were not likely to be evicted from their forest camp . |
| 29 | this is why they were so excited about this one they found in the Lock , in the , in er Loch Ness , because it was in such superb condition and they actually reckon they can get it flying again . |
| 30 | Glasgow 's Clyde 2 Tigers are a much changed side and they too have experienced settling-in problems . |