Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man they want to trace is in his late fifties , about five feet five to five six . |
| 2 | MANCHESTER CITY can call off their wide-ranging search for a goalscorer — the man they want has been at the club all the time . |
| 3 | They were successfully raised and after being carefully examined and analysed with carbon dating techniques , they appear to have been under construction around 1500 BC — that was at the same time as Stonehenge was built . |
| 4 | In many ways they seemed to have been on the verge of civilisation , as they kept pigs , and cultivated the land for millet . |
| 5 | They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s . |
| 6 | The chap on the Britannia stage was referring , almost certainly , to a recent threat by the IRA in Derry to kill two people who they allege to have been behind a ‘ major drugs ring ’ in the city . |
| 7 | I I simply do n't know but the paperwork I 've seen says that erm it is as likely in the next four or five years that major inward investors could be in the B one office type of employment as they happen to have been in the last couple of years in the manufacturing class . |
| 8 | He was aware that a captain with a record such as his has a big advantage , since any troops will respond better to a leader they know has been through the fire himself , and so he knew just what he could ask of his bowlers . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , they claim to have been in the Card Room all afternoon talking about the romantic poets . ’ |
| 10 | Examples of centurial stones or distance slabs with which different legionary detachments marked sections they had constructed are to be seen in the National Museum of Antiquities in Edinburgh and the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow . |
| 11 | Theresa Nolan , after having a medical termination on psychiatric grounds , had left a suicide note for her grandparents which they had confirmed was in her handwriting and which made her intention to kill herself plain beyond any doubt . |
| 12 | The MPs said the only firing they had done was on two US teenagers — children of Panama Canal Commission employees . |
| 13 | How could they say , as they all did , frequently and sanctimoniously , that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children ? |
| 14 | Councillor Mrs Mairhi Trickett continued to insist that everything they had done was in the best interests of the children . |
| 15 | The last time they had met was on V.E. night in Berkeley . |
| 16 | What they had said was at the end of the war they aimed at a safe and lasting peace , and to obtain that they demanded a setting up of a League of Nations . |
| 17 | The book made large , generous claims for life , and for itself : its beguiling charm made people reluctant to point out that what they had read was in fact a factitious marshalling of concerns that did not stand up too well to scrutiny . |
| 18 | The other fact which they had overlooked was of a different character but no less important in the long run . |
| 19 | Det Supt Albert Kirby , the man in charge of the murder inquiry , said that the two boys they had arrested were from the Walton area of Liverpool . |
| 20 | The chance that Britain would work with the French on the new air-launched nuclear missile they have developed is on again , after Mrs Thatcher had all but made up her mind to buy American . |
| 21 | The unequal status which women possess in society results in a situation in which what they have to say is for many purposes discounted or reinterpreted for them . |
| 22 | The address they have selected is in that envelope . |
| 23 | NEXT YEAR is the 80th birthday of the Union of Catholic Mothers , and they plan to celebrate is with a national pilgrimage to Lourdes . |
| 24 | But really , what , all they wanted to do was save face from the hospital because it was n't our fault but she used a bit of you know , we wo n't embarrass the hospital we 'll say |