Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold .
2 Pulse-generating species emit such short and irregular clicks that they rarely jam each other and most gregarious electric fish are of this type .
3 With five regulars missing they rarely tested former colleague Woods in the Wednesday goal and it was Sheridan , another of Hillsborough 's former Forest contingent , who set them on the way to victory .
4 If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born .
5 They eventually lost that game although the 3–1 scoreline does n't tell the full story of bad luck and missed chances .
6 Under the terms of the Compromise , Member States were supposedly given the right to veto decisions affecting their vital national interests ; under the terms of this Maastricht Declaration they effectively renounce that right , thus giving to foreign policy at the outset the same status as that acquired by other areas of policy where the Compromise has gradually been eroded over many years .
7 They only saw each other .
8 Apart from the fact that I 'd put my make-up on badly in my haste , I looked fairly normal — a bit flushed , maybe , and my eyes seemed unusually bright , but perhaps they only looked that way to me .
9 It was on the agenda and at seven o'clock the at night they eh they adjourned the meeting cos they only got half way through the agenda
10 ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’
11 From now on , they only want each other .
12 And they only , they o they only do same job do n't they ?
13 They only used this house , called Moor House , in the holidays .
14 The insulation panels for Rockwell sheet are profiled to match the sheet and as well as providing thermal insulation they greatly reduce any risk of condensation forming on the underside of the sheet .
15 The hypersurface on which they mutually focus each other , which is given by or , is here given by which determines the horizons of the Kerr solution .
16 Minimising — accepting that there are problems but denying that they are of any great significance or that they necessarily have any connection with alcohol or drug use : " An alcoholic is someone who drinks more than I do . "
17 Finally , because the British were so much further advanced than the French in nuclear matters , they naturally received more information from the Americans , thus reinforcing their preferential position compared with other allies .
18 In fact he had me arriving at the scene in a police car with two tones , at , at , at that time we did n't have police cars with two tones , just siren , so they obviously put some sound on it .
19 erm , and they did remarkably well , you know , taking it over , they were really very acceptable at the end , but the whole programme had this sub-plot of how antagonistic most of the prison officers were , not all of them , cos they obviously has some support to keep it going , but a lot of them were antagonistic towards what was going on , and not only that but just the the prison system , you know , this chap got transferred from one prison to another , when he was mid-way through rehearsals , you know , I mean why should n't he have stayed there ,
20 When they meet one another , they gingerly caress each other 's long legs and only after a great deal of hesitation do they come to closer quarters .
21 Because they saw the Pope as the Antichrist of the Book of Revelation and the Roman Catholics as apostates , they fiercely attacked all Church of England rites and ceremonies which followed those of Rome , including its set prayers , its administration of the Sacraments , the use of altars instead of tables , its celebrations of saints ' days , its music and its vestments .
22 Or do they just make more noise ?
23 He says there 's no end of traffic that comes through — articulated lorries — especially with the new charge on the bridge and they just come this way .
24 My mother is a very nurturing woman , says Kate Burton , their elder daughter , I know that they just suited each other perfectly at that time .
25 If she is training , they just arrange another time and she does n't think she is missing out .
26 Oh these courses mainly I 've been on is being opening the Guild you know , how to open a Guild , how to open you know , a Guild erm and er I 've been on consumer courses erm such as like that paper they just sent this week on what 's on , I mean that is nothing new they 've sent out in today 's Co-op news you know that our own label and all the nutr because the nutriment , I can remember er being at Stanford Hall on , on a consumer course for a week and you see I was on the er when I was know , know longer an employee , I was on member relations you see , representing the Guild and you 'd go through there sometimes and that would probably be a consumer task .
27 But I guess they just got some way .
28 They just spat each other out . ’
29 It 's just , they just announced this morning that he 's , and he 's asked to go .
30 So they just shove some tape over it .
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