Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [det] [noun] " 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 | One night they secretly told all employees , except Peter to leave early . |
| 6 | They eventually lost that game although the 3–1 scoreline does n't tell the full story of bad luck and missed chances . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They only saw each other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | These otherwise humble humans are almost totally deaf ( well , they can hear after a fashion and even utter a few ponderously slow , deep drawling growls , but they only use these sounds for rudimentary purposes like communicating with each other ; they do n't seem capable of using them to detect even the most massive objects ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I think they only knew this morning , and you 've been so busy being cross — ’ |
| 13 | When they could not get gold for their dollars after 1971 ( the US gold stock fell by only $2½ billion over the whole period ) , they only acquired these dollars because they were prepared to sell their own currencies in order to prevent them rising further . |
| 14 | They only said these things because I am a woman , and a Catholic , and they do n't want a Catholic queen in Scotland , they want a Protestant king . |
| 15 | From now on , they only want each other . |
| 16 | And they only , they o they only do same job do n't they ? |
| 17 | They only used this house , called Moor House , in the holidays . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . " |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnamese frontier is the arbitrary point at which South-East gives way to North-East Asia — the industrial powerhouse of the Pacific , the region that most economists and businessmen mean when they idly refer these days to ‘ Asia ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 , |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | None of the operations I ( i , j ) , I(k) , I(l) , in so far as they affect the minors , can make a minor of order r + 1 nonzero , nor make the minor of order r vanish , since they merely condense these minors . |
| 28 | I was one of her daisies and it meant that we had all these hats on , which were very unattractive — a rubber hat and on top was the daisy , so when you swam around and the people looked down at you , they just saw these daisies . |
| 29 | Or do they just make more noise ? |
| 30 | 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 . |