Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [adj] [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 | They rarely mean real harm , and go too far only infrequently . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | While forums such as these can take a community-wide approach , they rarely have executive power , being largely bodies for debate and comment . |
| 7 | And the specialists ' impact on other classes was limited ‘ because they rarely have sufficient time to work alongside their colleagues ’ . |
| 8 | Their social and economic pre-eminence was just beginning to seem more precarious and they wholeheartedly welcomed vigorous confirmation of the regime 's commitment to the status quo . |
| 9 | Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill . |
| 10 | In 1875 , however , they eventually defied public criticism and family opposition , and married in Switzerland where , under Swiss law , their marriage was legal . |
| 11 | They eventually lost that game although the 3–1 scoreline does n't tell the full story of bad luck and missed chances . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They only get hundred pound do they ? |
| 14 | The Exiles had 5 Internationals in their team , but they only managed one try . |
| 15 | They only saw each other . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | On , on , on the same day they only charge nine pound and i , everything 's valid up , insured up to fifteen thousand pounds per consignment . |
| 19 | They did n't believe in selling endowments , they only sold whole life you see ? |
| 20 | One view is that since France and Britain have developed only semi-token nuclear deterrents , they only require semi-token space programmes . |
| 21 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 22 | But they only had one goal to show for all that effort , that came on the half an hour from top goal scorer Martin Foyle . |
| 23 | The great Fangio ( Arg ) was also in the Maserati team but they only had one race together as team-mates before Fangio moved on to Mercedes . |
| 24 | They only had one objective — to save a few bob for the government . |
| 25 | ‘ They only had one chance , ’ she says . |
| 26 | Some graduates stride to the front of the little hall so easily you would not guess they only had one leg . |
| 27 | We had undertaken to collect birds and mammals for the Natural History Museum in London and we soon collected several specimens of blue-winged goose near the Sandfords ' farm ; the museum authorities had asked us specially to look out for this bird since they only had one specimen , collected in 1868 during Napier 's Magdala expedition . |
| 28 | From now on , they only want each other . |
| 29 | And the other difficulty is that if you 're , if you 're talking on a controversial subject , and you give three minutes and they only want one minute , they might actually choose the one minute you do n't want actually used . |
| 30 | ‘ They only allow smokeless fuel these days , ’ said Preston . |