Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hitherto they had deliberately promoted internally , which served to reinforce the already strong personal loyalty . |
| 2 | Some of the new services permitted by the Act are simply those offered by many other financial intermediaries , requiring no especial change in the balance sheet but drawing upon societies ' general financial expertise which hitherto they had been prevented from using to its fullest extent . |
| 3 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 4 | Furthermore they concluded that farmers had used this political power to prevent new employment in order to keep farm wages lower , and to keep rural council house building rates at a minimum so as to keep farm workers tied to their cottages . |
| 5 | When I put in darker clouds using a gel to keep the paint mixture stiff they lay gently on the damp paper , forming soft edges as they dried instead of the hard patches which otherwise would have destroyed the luminous envelope . |
| 6 | Insofar as they provided cheap goods of low quality for the coolies of eastern countries , who could not afford anything better they performed a service to the world and created for themselves a trade which conformed to their opportunities and resources . |
| 7 | Lastly they went down the main staircase to the Director s office . |
| 8 | Lastly they took the Minister and his wife , Jan , and drove them fast in separate cars across the Churchill Barriers that block the eastern approaches to Scapa Flow , to Kirkwall , the county town on Orkney 's mainland . |
| 9 | He looked at Arkhina , and suddenly they clung to one another and laughed . |
| 10 | Strange words , but suddenly they seemed natural . |
| 11 | Suddenly they seemed to notice Brenda for the first time . |
| 12 | I thought about the good-hearted couple inside its walls , and suddenly they seemed unimportant . |
| 13 | Suddenly they froze and looked up at the sky . |
| 14 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 15 | Still , it appeared her advent had summoned a little luck into his life , for suddenly they began to discover plentiful growths of grass potatoes , forest leeks and turtle-berries , a welcome change from the stringy little rabbits and bitter roots they had eaten until then . |
| 16 | The two wolves stood by his horse with their ears pricked , and suddenly they began growling deep in their throats . |
| 17 | Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players . |
| 18 | But suddenly they looked like two strangers . |
| 19 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 20 | Suddenly they heard a noise behind them . |
| 21 | Suddenly they heard Mary calling for Billy in a shrill excited voice . |
| 22 | He was due again and suddenly they heard that the prince himself was bringing him . |
| 23 | Suddenly they heard loud cries coming from the servants ' rooms , at the side of the house . |
| 24 | Suddenly they heard a terrible noise outside in the forest . |
| 25 | When suddenly they heard what sounded like a powerful wind from heaven , the noise of which filled the entire house in which they were sitting . |
| 26 | Suddenly they heard a quiet noise |
| 27 | I wonder whether the master — ’ Suddenly they saw me and broke off their conversation . |
| 28 | Suddenly they saw Angel Clare approaching . |
| 29 | Suddenly they laughed together , and he looked at her , really looked at her , for the first time , and he saw that she had a lovely set of teeth . |
| 30 | I felt the tears welling up in my eyes and suddenly they spilled over the sides and dripped down my cheeks . |