Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crowded conditions they lived in were ideal for passing on an infectious agent . |
| 2 | The villages and towns they passed through were shabby where buildings had long since been left to decay . |
| 3 | What they mean basically is that in relation to sand and gravel , the County Council will , will continue to look to four areas of the County er for most of the sand and gravel production , that 's the Sutton Courtney area , Sutton Wick area , er the Stanton Harcourt area and the Cassington/Yarnton area ; most of the sand and gravel workings will be there . |
| 4 | Even if people in this state are able to get themselves going as far as applying for jobs and are offered interviews , they fail to get them because the image they put across is one of a lackadaisical , flattened dullard — and who would want to employ someone who 's in that state ? |
| 5 | Understanding how they came about is one of the challenges in this affair . |
| 6 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 7 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 8 | So they 'd better be nice seeing as we 've been all the way |
| 9 | But they 'd better be good . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ My God , ’ said Emma , ‘ they 'd better be quick . |
| 11 | But Liz had never mentioned that Ross was so staggeringly good-looking ; nor had she made any reference to his devastating physical impact , although , to be fair , since both she and her cousin had only just finished taking their final college examinations , they 'd hardly been able to spend any time together before the wedding . |
| 12 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 13 | When they recovered , there was no destruction of the heart , lungs and they could go back and work , a young person , as if they 'd never been ill . |
| 14 | The fifty thousand well I if they do they have n't been able to what what we intend to do . |
| 15 | Well that is the , that is the erm the government guidelines that are actually set down and that 's what they pay out is fifty six pounds ten pence per week |
| 16 | The last time they flew together was seven days previously . |
| 17 | Yeah but they do some , those pub meals they reckon now are best value for money and the most |
| 18 | Each fence should be studied , but not over-analysed otherwise they end up being impossible to jump ! |
| 19 | The women I spoke to were almost always subsidiary wage earners ; the money they brought in was essential for survival but was not the main wage of the family and their jobs were often far more unpleasant than their husband 's . |
| 20 | The methods adopted by these tenants ' associations were those of lobbying and persuasion and the issues they took up were specific grievances affecting their own members , not the problem of housing as it related to the political system in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | Honestly , you can see why some people are n't keen on art ; some of that stuff they turn out is absolute rubbish ! |
| 22 | That they did not was evident in 1988 as 112 gentlemen archers , over half of them using the traditional longbow , took aim at the annual tournament for the ‘ Antient Scorton Silver Arrow ’ . |
| 23 | Yet among those who watched them on television screens as they did so were many who had been born before there were aeroplanes , and even before the motor-car had become a familiar object . |
| 24 | The idea that they do so is one of the most persistent slimming myths of all . |
| 25 | Thus , although people do change their behaviour , habits , beliefs and lifestyles , why they do so is unclear . |
| 26 | Part of the reason they do so is cultural and has to do with the elective affinity of their habituses with postmodern culture . |
| 27 | They 've also been lucky : a box of curtains bought for £20 , for resale , yielded the magnificent tapestries now hanging in the study . |
| 28 | Cut price classical CDs are n't new but until now they 've either been old recordings or foreign orchestras have been used with relatively obscure performers and conductors . |
| 29 | They 've both been free for years . |
| 30 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |