Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains . |
| 2 | Some ministers use them largely to keep in touch with parliamentary opinion on matters affecting their own departments . |
| 3 | The purpose of RE is to help them genuinely to reflect upon religion , opening up for them the possibility of a self-chosen and real commitment , religious or otherwise , so that the individual can freely play his or her role in the wider community , whether this be the faith community or society as a whole . |
| 4 | All the boys in Take That are careful with money , three of them still live at home with mum — and their parents make cups of tea for the adoring fans who wait outside their homes . |
| 5 | Them yesterday goed to home . |
| 6 | A painting by W. Roberts , Women Railway Porters in Wartime , depicts them shapelessly dressed in grey and brown , hauling cases , milk churns , and pigeon crates , almost unidentifiable as women . |
| 7 | New competences may be acquired , others may become redundant as the contexts calling them forth change in relation to the situation of the social actor . |
| 8 | It provides subordinates with greater job satisfaction by giving them more say in decision-making which affects their work . |
| 9 | Let them also lay on interview training . |
| 10 | They 're styled more like popular ‘ canvas ’ trekking jeans than multi-zipped activity legwear , but have the advantages of lightness and quick-drying which makes them particularly suited for travel wear . |
| 11 | In 1982 electricity utilities cancelled 18 nuclear power stations , some of them well advanced in construction . |
| 12 | They mostly feed at dawn and dusk , so try feeding yours at these times , offering earthworms and pieces of fish . |
| 13 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 14 | Another achievement , which both Christine and Bernie are proud of , is the ban on hunting on council-owned land that they successfully campaigned for back in 1982 . |
| 15 | What they can provide , if they successfully attach to money or property which is about to be disposed of , is security for the sum sued for together with interest and expenses . |
| 16 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 17 | On an average tour it will make the band up to £20,000 profit , a figure they rarely reach on ticket sales . |
| 18 | They presumably put in train the arrangements for the necessary legislation , as on 27th April , Molesworth introduced a Bill to the House of Commons to enable the Government to acquire the land for the scheme . |
| 19 | The Puritan missionaries thought the heathens did n't deserve to exist and the heathens were so compliant that they duly dwindled towards extinction . |
| 20 | The Mesozoic ginkgos were a varied and numerous group of plants , but unlike the spruces and pines they slowly declined in variety throughout the Tertiary . |
| 21 | Phosphorescent purple eyes peer out from beneath shells ; black sea urchins swivel their spines as they slowly perambulate on needle tip ; starfish of an intense blue spangle the sand ; and patterned rosettes unfurl from holes in the smooth surface of coral . |
| 22 | Hearing people have significantly better recall for items which they vocally repeat at presentation , while deaf people find it more difficult to recall items when they have to overtly repeat the sign when it is presented . |
| 23 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 24 | In the case of the Electricity and Gas Directives ( assuming they eventually come into force ) there is the added factor that the nationalised monopolist is likely to be closely involved in determining the crucial safety and security issues . |
| 25 | Without the assurance that there will be a market of sufficient size for the company 's products when they eventually come on stream ( a considerable period may elapse between product conception and realisation ) , projects requiring major capital investment would be too hazardous to undertake . |
| 26 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 27 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 28 | In any event , they only relate to non-renewal of the contract when it runs out . |
| 29 | In any event , they only relate to non-renewal of the contract when it runs out . |
| 30 | The basis of my notation is the observation that the centre pieces are not permuted — they only turn in place . |