Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 2 | They mostly involve fish because for some reason deep sea menace is more devastating , although the cerebral and digestive organs of land-based creatures still rate as moderately terrifying . |
| 3 | The employment of clerks in the Forest administration was anathema to the leaders of the English clergy : they successfully opposed Passelewe 's preferment beyond the archdeaconry of Lewes . |
| 4 | This forced the purse-seine fleet to fish outside the eastern Pacific and they successfully caught tuna without encircling dolphins . |
| 5 | They unofficially pay bounties to armed freelances willing to take on the terrorists . |
| 6 | They thereby avoid commitment to any current fad that comes up on the whirligig of fashion . |
| 7 | Although these characters have been criticized for being too emblematic , they arguably symbolise America 's divided attitude towards the war . |
| 8 | I 'm what they laughingly call mobile , but carrying a suitcase , as well as all my camera junk , is a little beyond me as yet . ’ |
| 9 | This was a time of panic , in which one farmer alleged that a thousand of his sheep had been killed by these parrots ; but it is now known that they rarely kill sheep . |
| 10 | The book also says that although badgers will scavenge from sheep and lamb carcasses , and eat afterbirths , they rarely kill lambs . |
| 11 | Such figures as we have need careful scrutiny , because they rarely take account of those who came back . |
| 12 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 13 | They rarely ate meat , and rather than consume butter , milk , meat , poultry and eggs , preferred to send any such produce to market . |
| 14 | Leicester 's Geordie boss Brian Little , in contrast , paraded his strongest side but they rarely threatened Newcastle . |
| 15 | Males may spar and even fight when confined in a small aquarium without sufficient territory being available to the individuals , but they rarely cause trouble with other species . |
| 16 | Unlikely — they rarely attacked man — but he took no chances . |
| 17 | The Schools Council 's early projects have been criticized in that they rarely took account of the context of the individual institutions where change was sought and ignored the fact that there was little consensus amongst teachers about the value of change anyway ( Becher and Maclure , 1978 ; Kelly , 1982 ; Richards , 1983 ; Cassidy , 1986 ) . |
| 18 | In stores like Harvey Nichols and Joseph they rarely use tags , which is even better Everyone I know nicks from shops . |
| 19 | They rarely had visitors , and if ever anyone was expected the front drawing room in its pale greens and pinks with damp spots over the wall could be aired and dusted . |
| 20 | It is to the credit of such workers that they rarely feel animosity towards a member of the Royal Family who puts on a designer frock , gets into a chauffeur-driven car , spends a couple of hours meeting the afflicted and , as a result , has her picture on the front page of most national newspapers with the word caring prefacing every mention of her name . |
| 21 | Apart from the Heads of Units , they rarely have contact with other similar services . |
| 22 | Non-US vessels are not bound by the MMPA , they are not required to carry any dolphin-saving equipment , and they rarely carry observers . |
| 23 | The point that the position of women is not an independent factor , a simple enough point in itself , but one often explicitly refused and , more commonly , implicitly ignored , is again one which most anthropologists would now entirely support , even though they rarely acknowledge Engels 's work . |
| 24 | They rarely meet opposition from the village militia , who have no training and not enough ammunition to put up a fight even if they wanted to . |
| 25 | 20.23 ; I Kings 1.38 ) ; they presumably spoke Greek . |
| 26 | This sort of ‘ diagnosis ’ is usually based on minimal evidence and does untold harm to the self-confidence of mothers at a time when they most need help and support . |
| 27 | The trouble is that people only start to read these magazines after they think of themselves as computer users — and the point they most need help is when they are deciding what to buy . |
| 28 | When they eventually became man and wife , it was the ‘ quietest of quiet weddings ’ and they had to pay half-a-crown for two passers-by to act as witnesses . |
| 29 | Sgt Grainger said they eventually accepted £50 but it appears no repairs have been completed . |
| 30 | After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night . |