Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] they [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chicago police beat Al Capone now they have to beat the fans |
| 2 | ‘ Any developments ? or does that murder take a back seat now they 've got a new one to think about ? ’ |
| 3 | Kai Tak stretched ahead , runway strip in the harbour lit up in blue white and gold , and a second later they had cleared the buildings of the city and were landing with a faint jolt . |
| 4 | If the trainees have come to this point successfully they have mastered the first objective of Goal 1 ; they now have good problem definition skills . |
| 5 | They backed off that time , but a few days later they tried to invade the island . |
| 6 | Three weeks earlier they had devoted a page to the story that another of his girlfriends , actress Rebecca Broussard , aged twenty-six , was expecting his baby , revealing that he was ‘ excitedly looking forward to playing daddy , but the bed-jumping Joker has flatly told Rebecca that he had no intention of marrying her . ’ |
| 7 | See they 've got , on the , on the lamp post there they 've got the signs up . |
| 8 | Three years earlier they had had a brief affair . |
| 9 | The thirteen children who developed schizophrenia could be characterised by the following factors : their birth had been relatively difficult ( longer and more complicated than average ) ; most of them had been separated from both parents and many placed in children 's homes at a young age ; they posed a disciplinary problem to their teachers ; and some years earlier they had had a rapid autonomic nervous system ( ANS ) recovery rate . |
| 10 | At the time they appeared to offer the greatest opportunities for the cities , yet ten years afterwards they appear to reflect a lost age . |
| 11 | Minutes later they had joined the long cordon of armed men , strung out at five yard intervals on the grass verge opposite the woods , from which the sounds of gunfire , explosions , whistle blowing and yelling were now appreciably closer . |
| 12 | A few minutes later they had reached the main road and were heading through a clear November evening towards the north side of the spectacular Cornish peninsula . |
| 13 | Then minutes later they re-emerged to hold the baby aloft before enjoying the party of a lifetime . |
| 14 | Half an hour later they had seen the cafe . |
| 15 | They were n't absolutely sure , but for a while afterwards they appeared to have a small surface radar contact one nautical mile east of Titron . |
| 16 | Oh yes but they 've been doing distance learning course they 've got the biggest distance learning course in Europe |
| 17 | people there they 've got a good |
| 18 | Hours earlier they 'd attacked the manager of the Kiosks newsagent in Nailsworth and robbed him . |
| 19 | Thirty-seven minutes earlier they had readjusted the parabolic antenna on the roof of the caravan , changing its direction 180 degrees from southern Spain to the southern North Sea . |
| 20 | No , no , no tomorrow but they 're doing erm they 're doing America now they 've got the erm |
| 21 | Julias Lukasiewicz , from Carlton University in Ottawa , Canada , said that if new high speed trains were to be successful in North America then they had to include a new track like the Japanese Bullet trains or the french TGV . |
| 22 | It 's the likes o' them should be at those meetin 's , an' if your people manages ter convert just a couple o' drunkards each time then they 've done a good job . |
| 23 | If teachers regard themselves as professionally accountable to themselves and their colleagues then they have accepted a commitment to the maintenance and improvement of their practice . |