Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The curious thing is that though the facts are the same as they were in the Fifties and the risks are higher , the level of anxiety about them has markedly fallen . |
| 2 | And another of them has just come out after doing time for burglary . ’ |
| 3 | Most pubs in the country probably have a few regulars who think their local is the best in Britain … but one of them has just proved it . |
| 4 | Wilkinson was in no doubt how his team had benefited : ‘ The fact I was able to work so hard with them has definitely made a big difference and helped improve my back four . |
| 5 | ‘ Although there are several people sitting on the FISA Commission whom I like and respect , none of them has ever done any serious motor racing , ’ he warned . |
| 6 | No one would lightly believe that either of them has ever found it hard to tell the difference between himself and somebody else . |
| 7 | These have made very nice baby coats in white and one of them has actually sold ! |
| 8 | Modern secateurs are now so good , however , that professional opposition to them has virtually disappeared , and it is a rare sight indeed to see a knifesman carefully honing the curved blade with his special fine-grained carborundum stone , invariably kept in an oilskin tobacco pouch in his apron pocket . |
| 9 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best but one of them has never won the Gold Cup … |
| 10 | Pitman and McCourt four of the best jockeys but one of them has never won the Gold Cup which one … |
| 11 | The term ‘ rich ’ implies that the pictures should contain a wealth of information relevant to the study ; however , trying to include too much detail can result in them becoming extremely cluttered , and it is often necessary to summarise the detail ( using the interview analysis technique if required ) and redraw them as the study progresses . |
| 12 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose there are other girls who have had the same experience as me , and that my talking about it in this book might help them feel less isolated . |
| 14 | In contact with other women the separatist becomes more and more impatient with women who to them seem stubbornly bogged down in male values . |
| 15 | Each of them getting more heated by the blow . |
| 16 | The Select Committee on Defence investigating the " Westlands Affair " wished to question civil service press officers and the Prime Minister 's Press Secretary but the Government 's refusal to allow them to testify effectively emasculated the committee . |
| 17 | Three of the foremost had tried to ride to his aid , and one of them lay now propped against a tree with an arrow through the fleshy part of his right upper arm , clutching it tightly with his left to slow the bleeding . |
| 18 | They lay there covered in soil and broken branches , their breath aching in repressed pants , the post-climax moment unhurried by blind fumbling for a towel . |
| 19 | In between excessive laughter I noticed that not only were SCUM CRAP at the back but they got completely pissed on by the Turkish Delights : - ) ) ) ) ) |
| 20 | I 'd laugh if they got fucking beaten up ! |
| 21 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 22 | Yes but , yes but you see they got so mixed up that the , |
| 23 | Oh we were look through all the magazines and they got really stressed out and told us to get out . |
| 24 | Additionally , while older sets of Groove Tubes exhibit normal loss of output power , they remain closely matched in our performance testing system , with balanced harmonics , longer sustain and prolonged usable lifespan . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , they remain strongly entrenched in both lay and professional minds . |
| 26 | And yet , separated by Aden , separated by Marxism , separated by death , they remain forever reunited in the preface and text of Aden Arabie . |
| 27 | If they remain chronically incapacitated for work they can now claim invalidity benefit at a higher rate . |
| 28 | It does not inspire Gedge on a lyrical level but Solowka and himself have maintained many of their earlier convictions , although they remain fairly concealed . |
| 29 | In particular , they became increasingly worried about two things . |
| 30 | Although many of the great scientists and philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century were Christians , they became increasingly attached to the supremacy of reason . |