Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Town might have been expected to dispose of a side they have already beaten twice this season , but not necessarily with ten men for 68 minutes of the game . |
| 2 | It is apparent that even where investigations have commenced within physical geography they have often proceeded to become intertwined with other disciplines . |
| 3 | They have cut the price , er of meals charged to the children , they 've er made some adjustments o c , to the menus offered , which was what the parents wanted , and as a result they 've actually increased the take-up of school meals by something like sixty percent . |
| 4 | As a result they have traditionally commanded higher wages than most other manual workers . |
| 5 | Their 15-9 victory over Wales at Cardiff Arms Park last December was beyond dispute the most significant result they have ever achieved on foreign soil . |
| 6 | The parade of hobby-horses that began on Saturday morning requires a little study before we assume it is The Shape of the Future , rather than an Easter divertissement , designed to cheer up Labour supporters after a defeat they had not expected . |
| 7 | Im afraid its the usual pro footballer thing where they say nice things about the club they ve just joined . |
| 8 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
| 9 | In the Queens Head one drinker murmured about seeing a man in a green and black tracksuit , another had spied a red car they had never noticed before . |
| 10 | It was the first motor car they had ever seen . |
| 11 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 12 | Er bearing in mind they 've also got eight thousand pounds of earnings and so the eight thousand pounds of earnings they 've got to use that up er savings , sorry , savings not earnings er before they can actually get means tested erm and there 's a s a sliding scale between three thousand and there . |
| 13 | Mind you , bearing in mind they 've still got |
| 14 | After Jericho the next city to be attacked is Ai , but here the Israelite troops are routed , and the people of God have a taste of the fear they have hitherto inspired in others . |
| 15 | that 's true but and they like their cup of tea they 've never had a cup of tea |
| 16 | because th on the telly they have n't got those . |
| 17 | Huddled together in the large lounge u if for protection against the monster they had unwittingly unleashed by their programme , the members of the committee were fully aware of the literally sobering fact that Scotland Yard was on its way . |
| 18 | Using hand-woven ropes — the Singphos do not trust any catching gear they have not made themselves — they ride their trained elephants right in among the herd . |
| 19 | Mining communities , the dock areas , Liverpool , all these people the only crime , the only crime they 've ever committed is to stand up for their rights . |
| 20 | Play them the Nirvana album they 've never heard . |
| 21 | In the short term , such equity based investments can of course be volatile , however , over the medium to long term they have consistently provided excellent returns compared with deposit-based savings . |
| 22 | When I asked Roger Forster whether they had ever started a new congregation without a full-time worker he replied that it was not that they were in principle against it , but in practice they had not done so . |
| 23 | In practice they have also assisted Welsh local authorities in land availability studies and with advice on land disposal for development . |
| 24 | On the back of their expected thirty thousand pound cash injection they 've already taken on extra staff . |
| 25 | And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long . |
| 26 | Underneath the mohair coat and the surplus flesh lurked the second-class citizen they had grudgingly tolerated at Plumford Grammar School . |
| 27 | ‘ Where had she got a tan like that after the Winter they had just endured ? ’ |
| 28 | After the war years and the terrible Winter they had all endured they had every right to be . |
| 29 | In the profession I would much prefer to see work generated by the directors , and the casting directors taking more trouble to go round and see the actor at work , taking people on the basis of work they had already seen . |
| 30 | For many women in coal communities it provided the only wage labour available to them , and for the first time it provided wages for the work they 'd always done . |