Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously this is not always the case , and if the parents do not wish to have the child because of the risks of mental handicap , they only course of action is termination . |
| 2 | She wondered why they constantly complained of stomach pains until she caught the woman redhanded . |
| 3 | Three albums in a year but they still reek of potential and new ideas , ’ wrote Eleanor Levy in Record Mirror . |
| 4 | Yet they also speak of resilience and creative intervention in life , particularly the women . |
| 5 | That night , in their tents , they nearly died of cold . |
| 6 | They both talked of marriage , she claimed . |
| 7 | I usually start at the walls because I find it easier to think up the general colour scheme first , but many people prefer to start with the floor because they automatically think of carpet and presume that this will be the most expensive item . |
| 8 | He assured her that he was unhappily married , never had sex with his wife though they slept in the same bed , and that they often thought of divorce . |
| 9 | Their relations were always cordial and , in his memoirs , Hedilla recounts how they often talked of politics . |
| 10 | The Bank of England , in its latest quarterly bulletin yesterday , blames the length of the current recession squarely on debt deflation , the buzz-word for borrowers determined to repay debt before they even think of spending and borrowing more . |
| 11 | But because these social theorists recognized the possibility of a stage-by-stage perfectibility of human society , they implicitly thought of culture as superimposed upon nature . |
| 12 | They too complain of pain whose severity bears little or no relationship to the tissue destruction . |