Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They thereby avoid commitment to any current fad that comes up on the whirligig of fashion . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Such figures as we have need careful scrutiny , because they rarely take account of those who came back . |
| 4 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 5 | They rarely ate meat , and rather than consume butter , milk , meat , poultry and eggs , preferred to send any such produce to market . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Unlikely — they rarely attacked man — but he took no chances . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Apart from the Heads of Units , they rarely have contact with other similar services . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 20.23 ; I Kings 1.38 ) ; they presumably spoke Greek . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night . |
| 17 | They delayed revisions of the Factory Law which were aimed at strengthening protective measures for workers and they effectively opposed government attempts to grant legal recognition to trade unions at that time ( Taira , 1973 ) . |
| 18 | And they only get advantage of getting |
| 19 | The potentially harmful beings may be described by the adjective yabud ( bad , harmful , ugly ) , but whenever thus designated , the speaker will invariably qualify this by saying that they are not ‘ truly bad ’ because they only cause harm if a person breaks a rule , or inadvertently falls into a trap . |
| 20 | Legal institutions may employ force but , so it is said , they only use force to combat and overcome those who disrupt order by the use of their own force . |
| 21 | Life is full of them , but they only make sense when you look back on them . |
| 22 | ‘ They only make love on the twenty-ninth of February , ’ said Hyacinth , ‘ and then only when it rains . ’ |
| 23 | But a number of those have complained that although they paid premium prices , they only received budget accomodation . |
| 24 | They only warrant protection when they are inhabited by rare species of animals and plants . ’ |
| 25 | These butts are pre-dyed , but I was curious as to why they only had colour on one side . |
| 26 | Surely they only take place when the data 's known to be applicable to people . ’ |
| 27 | The contradictions remain but they only become tension and conflict when we are under pressure to perform more than one role at a time . |
| 28 | Their natural children are very well qualified academically — they only played tennis — but my brother and I were into sport . |
| 29 | Well they only started tarmacadam in nineteen thirty six . |
| 30 | The main methods subjects from which students were drawn crossed the spectrum , except that no Physical Education teachers were mentioned ( this reflects one return from a College , which wrote back politely refusing to answer the questionnaire on the grounds that as they only trained PE teachers the language issue did not arise ) . |