Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sun continues to say it will use the chip but it 's kind of hard for them to say where definitively until there 's working silicon . |
| 2 | In fact some of them kill even better than they die . |
| 3 | Thousands of them looked down now as something round and shiny drifted around the Earth . |
| 4 | A few people were waiting and one of them called out angrily as Joe stepped in ahead of them all , but he gave him a one-second blast of his sub-zero gaze and said , ‘ Police business , ’ and then he turned his back and forgot the man completely . |
| 5 | They had spilled halfway across the road , and although most of them shuffled quickly aside when they saw the car approaching , four boys gathered themselves quickly into a group and remained standing defiantly in its path . |
| 6 | Having considered two cases ( one of them going back more than 25 years ) , it upheld verdicts in lower courts and ruled that in view of the complex scientific issues involved , the government was best placed to decide on sites and to assess their environmental impact . |
| 7 | They have not won away for 24 games since they clinched the 1992 title , and there was never any prospect of them doing so yesterday once Ian Rush had struck after 24 minutes . |
| 8 | ‘ The other mums are always talking about what their children eat and most of them seem as just as confused as I am . ’ |
| 9 | Sandy pulled her dress back up over her shoulders , just in case , and the two of them sat as still as they could and listened . |