Example sentences of "they [verb] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If they fear that in calling for quiet , and seeking to ensure it where the subject declines to desist , they might themselves be the objects of violence , the offence is made out . |
| 2 | They met while in prison . |
| 3 | Nevertheless the three dancers in Monotones are expressing their close relationship to each other and to the space in which they dance and above all to the flowing lines of the design and of the musical phrases . |
| 4 | Instead we made them talk about where they lived and about their families . |
| 5 | Signs of change had been evident within various protest movements , like the Teetotallers , from the 1850s when they realized that without state action they could not achieve their goals . |
| 6 | So , in a case where the seller was to build a yacht for the buyer and they agreed that on payment of the first instalment the vessel and all materials used in its construction should become the absolute property of the buyer , the court held that nevertheless no property passed on payment of the first instalment because at that time the boat 's construction had not commenced and the materials to be used had not yet been identified , McDougall v. Aeromarine of Emsworth Ltd. ( 1958 Q.B. ) . |
| 7 | They agreed that for the moment they would say nothing about it to Ebenezer . |
| 8 | ‘ However , in due course a few , a very few indeed , intelligent teachers came to take a cool look at what was happening and they realised that for the vast majority of children the majority of our educational processes add about as much to the mental stature of our children as a diet of sawdust would add to their physical stature … . , |
| 9 | They realised that with a car slowly sinking into the marsh there was not a minute to spare . |
| 10 | They always want to follow legal procedures up to a point , when even they realised that without some kind of help from other unions they were not going to win this strike . |
| 11 | I wonder , however , if they realised that by producing documents in this civil action , the defendants could safely resist the use of those documents if the police subsequently acquired them ‘ independently ’ from some other source . |
| 12 | They deny that on various occasions unknown between May 1989 and October 1991 they committed indecent offences and raped the sisters in houses in Glasgow . |
| 13 | They argued that under imperialism there could be no separate ‘ national question ’ . |
| 14 | They make that from sugar cane , which often grows wild here . |
| 15 | And they divided that by erm nought point O |
| 16 | In the new Act children are then to have a say in what they want and in the plans made for them . |
| 17 | Why they moved and for how long they stayed in Charlotte Square , however , is a mystery . |
| 18 | They moved as in a dance . |
| 19 | They expect that within days if not hours Luena , Cuito , Bie and Menongue will also fall . ’ |
| 20 | They report that in general , the psychiatric outcome was good and that the patients who were not happy about the result were those few in whom the operation had not led to the expected weight loss . |
| 21 | The news media can , by the way they report and by the significance they attach to personalities , events and the statements of individuals , colour the attitudes of the public and in turn influence the way in which the constitution is interpreted and the political system works . |
| 22 | The colleges were requested , in conjunction with their local education authorities , to submit academic plans in broad programme areas for their advanced courses in 1984–5 and to specify the programme areas which they regarded as of the highest priority . |
| 23 | They forget that under the last Labour Government the cab trade was decimated . |
| 24 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 25 | Where accurate values for the weights are available , or the weights can be reweighed , they suggest that at least one unit was in use , particularly in Kent , based on c . |
| 26 | These revisions do not ask us to view the prewar Japanese peasant as a prosperous and independent cultivator , but they suggest that at least part of the rural sector was benefiting from the course of development . |
| 27 | Although our results need to be replicated , they suggest that at least those patients with hypoxia and dyspnoea at rest get significant benefit from supplemental oxygen . |
| 28 | They suggest that in 1987 British electors relied much more heavily on television than the press for information , but only a little more for vote-guidance . |
| 29 | They suggest that in pigeon autoshaping the level of associability of a stimulus might determine , in part , the likelihood that it will be responded to . |
| 30 | They suggest that in many circumstances , and particularly more recently , the central problems facing management are not so much to do with control over labour but are much more to do with such matters as obtaining orders for products , getting the design right , innovating , and handling their relations with the capital market . |