Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not all Thom 's conclusions are fully accepted , but to understand them properly requires a knowledge of mathematics , statistics , surveying , astronomy , and archaeology — not a common combination . |
| 2 | Arboreal rodents , primates , and many other mammals take to the trees as an escape route and the majority of them rarely risk a descent to the ground unless it is vitally necessary . |
| 3 | Organizations are arenas within which some things will tend to hang together and be adopted by power-players as a bundle , while other forms of combination may be far less likely to occur as a coherent package , perhaps because they are less coherent or because the alliance which could make them so lacks a position in the field of power to be able to constitute the necessity of its choices . |
| 4 | ‘ These service industries can provide a better short-term financial return but real sustainable growth must be founded on manufacturing industries which add real value to raw materials by combining them together to form a product for which people are prepared to pay a premium , ’ he added . |
| 5 | ‘ To do that , you take a lot of identical molecules called amines and join them together to form a chain . |
| 6 | You wired them together to make a kind of pyramid . |
| 7 | Competing there were the cream of the country 's young athletic talent , some of them already making a name for themselves at international level . |
| 8 | Old Mr. Stavanger and Mr. Andrew both liked a glass in the Masters ' Room , but neither of them ever took a drop too much . |
| 9 | Negotiators from the two countries agreed in Geneva , at the end of the 15th round of bilateral talks which closed on April 26 , to cut their chemical weapons stocks to 5,000 tonnes each , and in June a summit accord between them formally endorsed a ban on the production of chemical weapons [ see p. 37518 ] . |
| 10 | MCI Communications Corp describes a report in the Wall Street Journal that it is talking with several cable television companies about partnerships , with them possibly buying a stake in MCI as no more than rumour . |
| 11 | Perhaps you could pass your Medau News on to friends with an encouragement to them also to join a class . |
| 12 | Many of them also offer a mail-order service |
| 13 | Even where deep affection remains unaltered , the gap between them often becomes a chasm as years go by . |
| 14 | None of them even read a newspaper . |
| 15 | The instances are the practice and the practice is the rule ; a rule is ‘ internally related ’ to its instances , and the sceptic 's attempts to plant a gap between them simply betray a misconception of what it is to follow a rule . |
| 16 | They thereby avoid a circularity of reasoning which has plagued the natural rate-NAIRU literature from its earliest days : if a sustained rise in the unemployment rate is not accompanied by an abatement of inflationary pressure , then this literature can admit of only one explanation — that NAIRU , a concept which has often been conflated with that of the natural unemployment rate , must itself have risen . |
| 17 | It was no longer a question of looking for a path to follow but of choosing which , for they rarely went a mile without being faced with the need to choose . |
| 18 | They badly needed a hit at the time . |
| 19 | In the 17 hours they were missing after losing their way , they trudged the forest to keep up their body heat until they eventually reached a path with white arrows which led them to the edge of the forest . |
| 20 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 21 | Grindal worm are a dwarf form of white worm , which they look like , except that they only reach a length of half an inch . |
| 22 | No but they did n't use it for they did n't have a license then , they only got a license after the war you see . |
| 23 | ‘ We believe they only had a couple of gallons of fuel aboard . |
| 24 | Because there 's only a couple , they only had a couple of security guards did n't they ? |
| 25 | Nigel was saying that they only had a couple , you know , cos they like you |
| 26 | Wandsworth where they only had a majority of one , they they they they destroyed the Labour Party . |
| 27 | Perhaps Councillors in Oxford should be grateful that they only had a shark and a pair of legs to get upset about . |
| 28 | They only had a week . |
| 29 | I mean they do n't take they only take a board up where they put it on to erm put it leading through and er where they bring it out . |
| 30 | But you do have to , you do have to be aware of being too clever for your own good , because they only want a translation . |