Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was something faintly sinister about these speechless nuns ; but perhaps they belonged to a silent order . |
| 2 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 3 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 4 | So they conclude with a social policy agenda . |
| 5 | Lorton won nearly two pounds from the fruit machine so they celebrated with a third pint . |
| 6 | Anne and Chris did n't want to return full time to stressful teaching jobs when their maternity leave ended , so together they sent in a joint application for a full-time position with a covering letter pointing out the benefits of job sharing , and the way they could organize their week and their timetable . |
| 7 | The girl opened a door with a Yale key — giving even this limited movement a lucid flow of limb — and together they stepped into a dark room . |
| 8 | Together they embark on a perilous ascent . |
| 9 | Thus together they amount to a concerted attempt to investigate whether or not any form of vertical behaviour is to be allowed . |
| 10 | Soon they disappeared behind a nearby slope — and I crawled from under the bush where I had hidden . |
| 11 | Soon they came to a stout fence of raw , new , wooden palisades with a door in it that said ‘ Private ’ above a grim-toothed lock . |
| 12 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |
| 13 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 14 | Instantly they plunged into a vertical nose-dive so abrupt that the bucket flew from her grasp and dropped like a stone . |
| 15 | Some while later they stopped at a large setting loom , manned by five men ‘ beating up ’ , as Natasha explained , the chenille fur . |
| 16 | Later they move to a lateral position , with the woman applying squeeze control when required . |
| 17 | I think that probably they labour under a heavier burden in that , right from birth , in many cases , things have been done for them , to them and they have had very little control . |
| 18 | And again you would expect socialization and environmental factors to operate , and clearly they do in a trivial sense . |
| 19 | Though , it 's just that , one of the things that Caroline actually , er working on with Warwick University is a way of re-looking at public services and how there funded right , it 's basically to help David to make the case with Margaret Margaret for more money with the local Government , but erm I mean the sort of things we 've been getting into is like when you considering paying for public services , should you , should you pay like in advance like through the National Insurance System or like , like I mean the French Health Service for example , people pay it for ambulances when they use them , though they pay on a differential rate , but I mean it 's an issue to debate , it 's right , and I 've just been thinking about lavatory while you 've been speaking . |
| 20 | Luckily they hit on a nice policewoman who more or less had to throw the teacher out , she was so insistent and heavy . |
| 21 | A little further on they came across a parked Army vehicle around which a number of people were clustered listening to the vehicle 's wireless . |
| 22 | Presently they came to a great waterfall . |
| 23 | Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 . |
| 24 | Are n't they entitled to a little porn too ? ’ |
| 25 | Why ca n't they plan for a longer term for those trees ? |
| 26 | That maybe they get to a certain time when they 're going to be out of touch ? |
| 27 | People do n't mind being referred if it 's something that is genuinely but say they phone Leeds and Leeds do n't know and Leeds refer them to a number they think it is and then they refer to a third number then somebody gets . |
| 28 | Okay , so they got the base line measurement , thirty five percent people use them , then they went to a variable ratio er token economy system . |
| 29 | Then they retreated to a special lunch prepared for them , where they knocked back around seventeen Martinis apiece . |
| 30 | Then they tore in a wild , bumpy , breakneck race across the rough heath to Scawby Marsh and got ropes round the poor terrified pony just in time to keep him above the shifting surface before the marsh engulfed him . |