Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] they [vb past] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times they fell painfully on jagged rocks , so that they learned to move exceedingly slowly , edging forward and feeling for a foothold , and all the time they could not know whether they were not wandering in aimless circles and approaching no nearer to the security of the forest . |
| 2 | Not that the Pioneers of the Consumers ' Movement supposed that they were abandoning Owenite objectives , still less that they intended to do so . |
| 3 | And especially if they planned to go somewhere else today . |
| 4 | ‘ Leeds City could not be suspended as a club — we had no power to do that ; but so long as they refused to give up those vital papers , we could have no way out save by expelling them . |
| 5 | As the ubiquity of stellar coronae had only just been discovered with the Einstein Observatory , the absence of coronae for stars of this type was tantalizing , especially as they seemed to disappear rather rapidly ( on an evolutionary timescale ) . |
| 6 | The Reverend Foster 's beady eyes fixed on the children fumbling for their donations as if they were a parcel of juicy worms to be swooped on if they tried to wriggle away . |
| 7 | Dusk came quickly and they decided to stay where they were and camp for the night . |
| 8 | As the sky lightened even more and they began to make out their surroundings more clearly , Fenella and Caspar both found themselves looking out for the signs that Floy had hoped to leave . |
| 9 | Father 's parting present to us was a beautiful large lobster he and one of the boys had brought home when they went to pull up their lobster pots . |
| 10 | I giggle a little as I fetch the little dark blue jacket I bought at the same time : it was rather extravagant to buy both but they seemed to belong together . |
| 11 | She did n't point out that they had to go back the way they had come , and when he reached into the back and handed her a water container she drank gladly . |
| 12 | It was on another run , we got another coach come back so they had to go out to where the one it was |
| 13 | Most of those leaving the cities have had to buy their way out if they wanted to live in environmentally more-attractive areas that , particularly in the south of England and — to some extent — increasingly elsewhere , were proving to be the most economically active . |
| 14 | At that time deep ecologists tended to emphasise the value of the whole so exclusively that they seemed to rule out altogether any value for its parts and particularly for individuals , whether human or animal . |
| 15 | In 1696 an Act of Parliament " for the Encouragement and Increase of Seamen " had provided that mariners , irrespective of rank , should pay 6d. per month out of their wages to support the Royal Naval Hospital at Greenwich which should act as an alternative to the parish relief which few sailors were able to claim even if they wished to do so . |
| 16 | THERE was a tremendous stushie 20 years ago when they wanted to put up an office block tower by Haymarket . |
| 17 | Quite unexpectedly , at 9.00 a.m. on 12 July , the couple turned up at Auckland airport and told the hire company 's office there that they had to return early to Europe and were planning to catch the 11.30 a.m . |
| 18 | Erm so they would have ch they chose to live there and they chose to move out . |
| 19 | They got there but they had to go in second gear look |
| 20 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 21 | The doctors were very keen you know very keen , and if actually if they had to go anywhere when there was trouble you know say you 'd got haemorrhage or anything like that they were supposed to report it you know . |