Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Modern scholars have found proof that from here they continued to withdraw north-eastwards , groups of them eventually making their way to the vicinity of the Tigris-Euphrates basin , the region which now constitutes the border between Syria and Iraq . |
| 2 | As Citrine had earlier told his colleagues , a tactical retreat of accepting the Minister 's suggestion and then showing it to be ineffective would enable them better to assert their independence in future . |
| 3 | Our invaluable handbook , which otherwise retails at around £100 is included in membership — and members invariably find that knowledge gained via membership , be it from the Handbook , a seminar or fellow members , allows them annually to recover their membership subscription . |
| 4 | If he is to continue , he should now be taking different movements and linking them together to form his fighting style — a format of defence and attack that becomes second nature to him . |
| 5 | No Peter wants about them finally closing his business down . |
| 6 | On the other hand , none of them ever doubted his ability to give as good as he got when the street-fighting began . |
| 7 | Her lip trembled briefly as Tony hugged her and Maureen kissed her again before they left , but she quickly recovered and told them unsmilingly to give her love to her father and the family . |
| 8 | Many of them usually earn their living by carrying out valuations on behalf of brewery companies . |
| 9 | He saw Balfour and Lloyd George in such different lights that , the issue of the Admiralty apart , the idea of an alliance between them hardly entered his head . |
| 10 | We say more about the resolutions in the explanatory notes but if you have any queries about them please telephone our Shareholder Enquiry Office where the staff will be able to help you . |
| 11 | One of them simply lifted her skirt , lay on the floor , and had a handjob . |
| 12 | There were Polish and Dutch boats as well as the Scottish , but they mostly packed their catch to take home . |
| 13 | Every six weeks an EITB officer has called in to monitor their progress and on they successfully completed their training . |
| 14 | There are , however , homœopathists who carry about with them on their visits to patients the homœopathic medicines in the fluid state , and who yet assert that they do not become more highly potentised in the course of time , but they thereby show their want of ability to observe correctly . |
| 15 | They rarely showed their hair on stage as enormous head-dresses or wigs were worn . |
| 16 | Indeed , they vigorously opposed their unionisation . |
| 17 | Alain asked quietly as they slowly made their way to the car later . |
| 18 | They acutely felt its loss ; the loss of their independence in both the public and private spheres ; the constant financial pressures ; and the frustrations of having ‘ to live every day at home in poverty ’ . |
| 19 | Well , they eventually got their chance , during a rest day at the Monte Carlo Open . |
| 20 | Though the republicans lost the war , they eventually won their case with their successful introduction of the republican constitution of 1937 . |
| 21 | They eventually narrowed their focus to three subjects : submerged aquatic vegetation , such toxic substances as chemicals and herbicides , and the bay 's ever-fluctuating supply of nutrients , nitrogen and phosphorus in particular . |
| 22 | Do they effectively manage your empire with detailed rules on expenditure ? |
| 23 | And all the firms are claiming that they only get their hardwood from government erm replanting programmes . |
| 24 | They only get your skin clean ma . |
| 25 | They only change their form |
| 26 | I mean they only had their door there and letting in draughts and them running in and out you see we put that there look . |
| 27 | They only noticed his absence . |
| 28 | Are you going to have mounted policemen following the hunt round to ensure that they only steer their course along certain ways ? |
| 29 | GH-K are no strangers to such nail-biting circumstances since they only retained their position this season when they found themselves with a better points differential to Stewart's-Melville , who have subsequently won promotion . |
| 30 | The impacts of traffic on street life were described as ‘ subtle , complex and , in many instances , very destructive ’ by Donald Appleyard in his pioneering work in the 1970s Pushkarev and Zupan agree , though they perhaps express their view with more poetic licence : |