Example sentences of "[adj] they [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 This they eventually did at Messina — another positive augury for the future , perhaps — appointing to the post René Mayer who was , in fact , an associate of Monnet .
2 In 1985 they both moved to Porter 's house paints division , where Mr Horton is vice-president .
3 Oh , I , I can remember when fibreglass curtains first came out we bought some of those terrible things they just went in holes , you know if you touched them too much they just went in holes .
4 Medical men were so unsubtle they usually jumped to conclusions like that .
5 From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points .
6 But by 1898 the Chrimes brothers had on their ledgers over 10,000 names of women who had responded to their advertisements and these they then used for blackmail .
7 ( c ) Under anti-discriminatory legislation The Sex Discrimination Acts 1976 and 1986 These apply to all partnerships irrespective of the number of partners ( before 1986 they only applied to partnerships with six or more partners ) .
8 This will mean that some individuals now have a different payment date for Council Tax to that they previously had for Community Charge .
9 The social workers and foster mothers who have worked with children abused in this way also have much to tell us , as Bea Campbell 's recent Channel 4 film demonstrated : not least that they too lived in fear whilst trying to discover what had happened to the children they were working with .
10 The maternal words ‘ If you do n't study hard , you 'll end up on the check-out counter at Tesco 's ’ had had , if not the intended effect , the result of causing Camille and her friends to look down on shop assistants , bank clerks and bus drivers : for more recondite reasons of their own they also held in contempt estate and travel agents and people who worked in advertising .
11 WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town .
12 Well even m er my kiddies er not An er Joan so much but the others seven o'clock was the latest they ever went to bed .
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