Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do not , however , collect bone , and they mostly gnaw larger pieces of bone rather than small mammal bone . |
| 2 | She said they mostly wore silky slips and dressing-gowns . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought , ‘ well , it 's the Boat Race , not very high-powered crews considering they mostly do other things ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Racing people do have flexible hours , ’ he observed , ‘ and they mostly have free afternoons . ’ |
| 5 | The Australian initiative was rejected both by the Privy Council and the English courts , largely on the grounds that the common-law precedents were not compelling , that the full defence of self-defence should be applied indulgently in favour of those who use such force as they instinctively think necessary , and that the doctrine of provocation might be used to accommodate other cases . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Using cement of their own manufacture , they skilfully build tubular houses for themselves out of materials that they pick up from the bed of the stream . |
| 8 | A spell of seven games without a win has seen the Goodison club tumble from seventh to 16th place in a month and , Beardsley apart , they rarely looked likely to trouble the supremely confident United , beaten only once in their last eight games . |
| 9 | And despite their higher incomes , they rarely become rich because their activities are limited to the few months during the year when the climate is favourable for construction work . |
| 10 | Pulse-generating species emit such short and irregular clicks that they rarely jam each other and most gregarious electric fish are of this type . |
| 11 | They rarely go hungry , but they are easy prey for aquatic hunters , having little or no mobility with which to defend themselves . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I believe in trickle filters , but they rarely get more than a passing mention . |
| 14 | This was fodder for the trainees , and they rarely got much else . |
| 15 | They rarely mean real harm , and go too far only infrequently . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | More than this , even with earlier memories they rarely made any systematic attempt to gather evidence of later life from childhood memories about grandparents or old people in the neighbourhood . |
| 18 | They rarely study natural events , and only in so far as they impinge on the human world . |
| 19 | But though such temperate-zone parasites can be unpleasant and dangerous — Lyme disease can kill — they rarely affect more than a handful of people . |
| 20 | While forums such as these can take a community-wide approach , they rarely have executive power , being largely bodies for debate and comment . |
| 21 | And the specialists ' impact on other classes was limited ‘ because they rarely have sufficient time to work alongside their colleagues ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They presumably become familiar with all the small local anomalies and so build up a much more detailed magnetic map of the area they live in . |
| 24 | Their construction and use indicates permanent pasture , thus they presumably represent abandoned areas when occurring on village and field sites . |
| 25 | One night they secretly told all employees , except Peter to leave early . |
| 26 | Léon Blum , the new prime Minister , said of people like Cohn-Casson : ‘ They secretly curse those who put them in the hands of secular enemies . ’ |
| 27 | Boosted by that success , Scotland looked for more , and they duly obliged three minutes into the second half when Paul Telfer 's flag-kick was met by Duncan Ferguson 's deadly forehead , the ball speeding past a bemused Tony Mallia . |
| 28 | They duly reappointed old friends , and the Bank 's already notable tendency to fiefs and feudalism was reinforced . |
| 29 | In the circumstances in which they were used they powerfully augmented other forces of change by providing data on the state of society at a period when so little was known . |
| 30 | Many children feel the need to pour from one container to another continuously as they slowly acquire manual skill . |