Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closer they crept -both morning and belief — the more he regretted shunning the assassin when it had so plainly wanted his company . |
| 2 | It says , and when they got there lot of these kids were dirty they had head lice |
| 3 | The fascination of this paper is that they bring together philosophy and psychology empirically in a way that has value for the busy social work practitioner . |
| 4 | They concerned principally profitability and factors such as optimal vessel size . |
| 5 | If they stood apart from their era , assuming human nature can ever do this , their fear was that they would have faded away as irrelevant oddities ; if on the other hand they became fully part of their century their fear was that they would not be giving an alternate witness , another voice . |
| 6 | Katherine lay in bed , listening to the floorboards outside her door creak and the hurried whispers of the servants as they made there way down from their attic quarters ; it was a little before six then . |
| 7 | They are all hoofed mammals , with two main toes of roughly equal size ; and they are all ( with the singular exception of the pig , which is an omnivore ) herbivores — they eat only vegetation . |
| 8 | They sit here day after day , gazing out into the middle distance , letting their problems stockpile to nothing more complicated than yet another sunny day on the porch of a listing old house . |
| 9 | They 'll tell y' they 've got culture as they sit there drinkin' keg beer out of plastic glasses . |
| 10 | Ask ministers privately what they perceive as Labour 's terminal weakness , and they will reply : Neil Kinnock . |
| 11 | Coastal whaling would suit Norway and Iceland , which want to resume hunting and export the meat to Japan , but not the UK and other European anti-whaling nations , which argue that the very whales they are seeking to protect would be killed when they swam further north . |
| 12 | But in the two weeks , as they moved slowly north into the forested hills and grassy uplands close to the hill station of Dalat , they had killed between them prime specimens of almost all the groups required for the museum . |
| 13 | And as they moved together Folly felt her lips part to welcome the hungry passion of his mouth . |
| 14 | The antennae also show a very specific response : they sense only bombykol , and are not stimulated by even very similar molecules . |
| 15 | Fetishised by her additions — erotic snapshots pinned to a bodice , a pointing finger , a ritualistic series of omens fastened to a skirt — they presage both loss and enlightenment in the cathartic climax of Messager 's bleak black comedy of passion . |
| 16 | They used either aluminium or steel foil , contained in a stainless steel cassette , as a recording medium . |
| 17 | Her labours done — and though they involved both effort and expense she enjoyed them very much — she sat for a little at her desk , thoughtful and handsome . |
| 18 | That makes them victim and hero at the same time , which makes them irresistible — they command both protection and admiration . |
| 19 | It is important to bear in mind that these statistics are collected on a changing basis , even though all derive from taxes at death ; they cover both consumption and production property . |
| 20 | A lunch with the Capo dello Squadro Anti-Terrorismo that he had been waiting a year for , a session with a good guy in the Guardia di Finanze , and a squash game with Dieter who was number two to the Legal Attaché , and he just did n't know whether he 'd be back before the Little League All Stars trip to Naples and the game against the Sixth Fleet which was the high point of the season which they played now courtesy of the Italian sunshine into late fall . |
| 21 | They played mainly country tunes , at high-school and church-based venues most weekends . |
| 22 | The driver and blue raincoat waited until I entered , then they drove away south . |
| 23 | They drove directly south-west into Algeria through Guelma , Bou Saada , Ain Sefra , Colomb Béchar near the Moroccan frontier , Tindouf , into Mauritania through Chinguetta , and reached the Atlantic coast at Nouakshott . |
| 24 | Squirrels and martins moved in the trees , and once they came almost face to face with a boar . |
| 25 | Windfalls : In the Amazon area there are large numbers of fish that feed off seeds falling from trees ; their teeth and jawbones would allow they to crack even brazil nuts ( something to think about while you struggle with your nut-crackers this Christmas ) . |
| 26 | Me they 'd probably stone to death . |
| 27 | I think they 'd always sort of wanted to go and explore , yes , and it seemed the ideal time , the boys were just about school age , erm , sort of you could well . |
| 28 | They record only action actually taken in the shape of orders and letters sent out ; they tell us nothing of discussions about policy , of general decisions taken , of advice tendered to the Queen . |
| 29 | Where they going now mum . |
| 30 | and they stand there sort of bouncing up and down on this canvass thing , you know , sort of like this then she goes ooh ooh , and her bleeding leg comes up in the air |