Example sentences of "they [verb] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They declare that they have no territorial claims against anyone and that they will not make such claims in the future . |
| 2 | They fear that its place at the cutting edge of environmental radicalism has been taking by groups such as Earth First . |
| 3 | The discussion with trainees may reveal that they fear that they will open emotional floodgates for Sally since so many of her problems may not have immediate solutions . |
| 4 | They feel that the ‘ rainy day ’ for which they have worked and saved for so long has now arrived , and they fear that they may , at any time , have to dip into whatever nest-egg they have tucked away for emergencies . |
| 5 | As the ASEAN-4 see the tigers exploring Vietnam and , in particular , China , they fear that they will lose out . |
| 6 | They fear that they are now looking at a successor tax which is designed simply to allow the Government to muddle through to the next election . |
| 7 | I think this is generally because there is so little loft on the clubface and they fear that they will not get the ball into the air . |
| 8 | Early this year they announced that they had found the 17 keV neutrino again , with a far greater degree of sensitivity than any previous experiment . |
| 9 | The reason for the move is that Phil took redundancy from BP when they announced that they were closing their Glasgow office and has since found a job with a Swedish oil company in London . |
| 10 | The Minister of State , Scottish Office , shakes his head , but he knows that the Government conceded this point when they announced that they would allow colleges to anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 11 | Blaming the low turnout on bad weather and a lack of public awareness of the issues , they announced that they would seek another such vote in October . |
| 12 | They failed when her cash bag split . |
| 13 | Jesus said simply that they failed because they had little faith . |
| 14 | But in that horrendous final game with France in Paris they revealed that they could , after all , manage to plumb even greater depths of ineptitude . |
| 15 | In the announcement of their forthcoming System 7 software they revealed that they were moving towards the concept of using outline fonts to generate the screen displays and that they were developing their own proprietary format , then known as Royal but subsequently re-named TrueType . |
| 16 | The this problem with the detector , it 's another level of subcontracting down and er if you you 're buying a piece of equipment of this kind from a a consortium er essentially you ca n't dictate to him precisely who he 's going to use to supply the components for that system and er it is the problem came to the notice of officials when the consortium came forward and and said look , we we 've got these terms in our contract er concerning detection range and so on and er we may not be able to meet those , er so we questioned the reasons and then of course they revealed that they were having problems with the supplier . |
| 17 | They revealed that they fired more than 200 rounds at the hijacked car , killing the three men inside , who were wearing boilersuits and balaclava helmets . |
| 18 | Finally they relented when she argued that they were simply wasting their money . |
| 19 | They relented when it was explained that the alternative was to exhume the bodies of other relatives . |
| 20 | For a long moment they lay and she gazed down at him , their eyes locked . |
| 21 | Her husband , Gurinder , married her after they met while she was on holiday in Delhi in 1989 . |
| 22 | His wife , Sarah , was also a canoeist before they met but they now face the problem of babysitters for their two youngsters . |
| 23 | Well , in the beginning , erm , this is an interview before they start rehearsing one evening , or like , what they each other play , and they 're just talking about how they met and everything , cos they , the vocalist and the guitarist met in a chip shop , and knocked all the chips everywhere , and then he er , the guitarist talks about , erm , he met , I mean , he knows a drummer that 's free and it turns out that it 's the vo vocalist 's vocalist 's brother . |
| 24 | They had met just three months ago , yet now it seemed that the whole of her life had been crammed into those few fleeting weeks ; as if her living had had no meaning before they met and her future would have no substance if ever he left her . |
| 25 | He did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat . |
| 26 | They met when they were both at university . |
| 27 | They met when she was an undergraduate , he a postgraduate tutor , ‘ I volunteered to study the central nervous system , ’ she says . |
| 28 | What opulence they met as they settled into their private salons : Spanish leather armchairs embossed with gold , mahogany panelling inlaid with rosewood marquetry , damask curtains held by silk cords with gold tassels , thickly-carpeted floors , and each compartment was heated . |
| 29 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 30 | The money he gave them they had meant to use for the Greek trip but it was more than they expected and they had gone on a shopping , then a drinking , spree with it . |