Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pointed out that they rarely seemed to express affection towards Pamela and that this might be making her feel insecure . |
| 2 | For example , bureaux in the Home Counties will often boast of a waiting list of volunteers such that , in fact , they rarely need to mount recruitment campaigns . |
| 3 | From the middle of the 18th century writers and then artists had visited the ‘ Lakes ’ in a steadily increasing stream and jointly they slowly helped to transform public opinion from one of ‘ Salvatorian ’ horror , described by the earlier visitors , to a passionate romantic appreciation . |
| 4 | They eventually learned to speak English and explained they had come from St Martin 's Land , a twilit , subterranean place . |
| 5 | I mean there ought to be someone who can make a lead for us in house , that sort of thing , which we do n't have at the moment , because we 've got things like complicated split leads for rigging up two monitors , and we 've had those twice we 've had those made , outside , but they only need to get sort of broken , and we 're back to square one . |
| 6 | Initially they only need to keep track of customers , write letters and run a spreadsheet . |
| 7 | They just keep taking money away from me . |
| 8 | They just want to know help is there if they need it . |
| 9 | I mean they used to take things er the wedding ring , the jewellery if they 'd got any , towels , sheets , er suits , shoes , er did n't did n't want to sell them , did n't want to get rid of them , they just wanted to borrow money on those , and he used to charge you interest and ticket money when you took it in , and then you 'd got to pay interest when you took it out as well so it was , they were on a good thing . |
| 10 | While these assumptions are considered by many educators to be oversimplistic , they nevertheless serve to draw attention to specifically adult learning needs of which tutors in adult education need to have and understanding . |
| 11 | I warned them that d-i-yers should stop short of tampering with British Telecom 's property , but they nevertheless decided to take look inside the junction box . |
| 12 | These days pay negotiators in the West have one eye always on the retail price index — they broadly aim to secure wage increases at least equal to the rate of inflation . |
| 13 | ( Also significant was the 1975-onwards descent into repression by the Peruvian military as they desperately sought to regain control of an explosive situation unleashed by their own policies . ) |
| 14 | That 's not a way of fudging some other cost , the retained fire fighters are recompensed when we provide training for them , because they normally have to lose work or whatever . |
| 15 | Throwing it over him , they finally managed to grab hold of his legs and stop the uncontrollable bouncing . |
| 16 | Though debt-for-equity swaps represent one way for banks to recover part of their developing country debt exposure , they still stand to lose money and look likely to have to wait for some years before they can cash in their equity stakes . |
| 17 | The Lancashire Cup is the only trophy to elude coach John Monie in his three-year reign though they hardly needed to break sweat against helpless Swinton with Frano Botica booting 11 goals from 15 attempts . |
| 18 | When a formal vote was taken by the Council of Ministers ( a rare event since they usually sought to reach consensus ) , the record of the vote would be published . |
| 19 | They are frequently written in a way that omits insulin when the blood glucose is within the normal range , and they usually fail to take account of the insulin resistance induced by increased ketone body production . |
| 20 | As in Gassendi and Locke , the ‘ new philosophy ’ was often anti-sceptical in intent , and its advocates were often not complete materialists , in that they genuinely thought to find room for religion , God , and the soul . |
| 21 | They also tend to survive burial in conditions that destroy the rest of the plant . |
| 22 | Although they feel and look good on the skin at the time , by attracting water from the air , they also tend to attract water from within the outer layers of the skin too . |
| 23 | Another thing about smoking , although nobody 's denying it 's bad for you , is the fact is that , it 's overwhelming the core of women who smoke , who also have worst diets , they also tend to have worse stress , it 's used as a very convenient scapegoat . |
| 24 | The enemy 's withdrawal was probably due to lack of supplies , for they also had to bring food into the mountains . |
| 25 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 26 | They offered some concessions to France , including the final resolution of CAP , but they also threatened to use majority votes in January without him , and even talked of admitting Britain to the Community whether he agreed or not . |
| 27 | However , they also want to spend time with their children . |
| 28 | They also want to ensure health authorities provide a comprehensive range of NHS services of a high quality and to discourage the growth of a two-tier health service by cutting tax privileges for private medical insurance . |
| 29 | They also decided to levy duty in Poland rather than in the Free City . |
| 30 | They also appear to endorse car crime , as a car is hi-jacked , then is joyridden away . |