Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] they [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this is a legal thing to do in Texas , an uproar over the shameless display of influence-peddling prompted most of the recipients to return the money ( mostly only after they had cashed the cheques ) . |
| 2 | Even then , habit and a stubborn trust that our audience spied upon us from behind then nearest bush , forced our bodies to blunder on long after they had emptied of meaning , until like runaway carts they dragged to a halt . |
| 3 | It 's been all right since they 've lived here because so few people come . |
| 4 | This is especially so if they have lost their muzzles , for it is likely they will have all the food they require down there with them . |
| 5 | And that is n't so long since they 'd seen her |
| 6 | ‘ I know you mean well , love , ’ he wrote , ‘ but Maureen and Chris have managed for so long because they have kept it so low key . |
| 7 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 8 | But they do so only after they 've had their seven rehearsals . ’ |
| 9 | Russian diplomats in west-European capitals until the end of the seventeenth century expected to be maintained by the rulers to whom they were accredited , and often complained vociferously when they were treated less generously than they had expected . |
| 10 | Would they dare risk alienating public opinion so soon after they had regained it ? |
| 11 | It is tempting to discuss Freud 's ideas much further since they have permeated modern psychological thinking . |
| 12 | I doubt that any of the Israelites wandering in the desert and occasionally venturing down to the water would have written those lines about God being mightier quite so confidently if they had seen big Waimea . |
| 13 | In so far as they have grown up in an ad hoc fashion , designed by the art colleges on an individual basis , it is difficult to generalize about them . |
| 14 | so far as they have made some er adjustment , we will be able to judge whether the scale of adjustment they 've made was a was a reasonable thing . |
| 15 | The books of Mary Somerville ( e.g. , On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences , 1834 ) proved valuable to men of science wanting to keep up with what was going on in other fields , and unable to understand it all even if they had had time to read it . |
| 16 | Nobody puts references down here if they 've got any sense that are gon na give bad references . |
| 17 | They could have had cupboards right round there , rate along there if they 'd left |
| 18 | But on the Carvin this is not so because they have set the on/off facility at such a point that only the ‘ send ’ side is affected , leaving your last reverb treated signal to die away naturally . |
| 19 | He had taken an instant dislike to both Bodie and Doyle , not only because they had bungled the surveillance job on the van containing his potential assassins , but because they dressed casually , more suited to a Sunday afternoon jog than the serious business of the Secret Service . |
| 20 | The Bogsiders felt that they had won — not only because they had kept the RUC out of their area but because they had forced the British Army to intervene . |
| 21 | They described their prosperous neighbours on the Soviet as ‘ very wise and understanding ’ , not only because they had proved it by accumulating a little property , but above all because they were pismennye , or literate . |
| 22 | It was like an omen , and she was n't at all surprised that , not long after they had resumed after their meagre lunch , the first raindrops fell . |
| 23 | There was a murmur of agreement from the assembled men , then Springfield asked about the burst of gunfire he 'd heard not long after they 'd entered the grounds . |
| 24 | but sometimes actually it 's a more , you know , kind of it 's , it 's , it 's not really because they 've got problems but it 's just because they , they 're , they 're , they 're sort of more diligent and more , you know , more motivated but erm yeah getting on |
| 25 | Artemis 's father broke the silence now and then by humming tunelessly to himself , but he never spoke another word , not even after they had ridden into the yard and handed their horses over to Jenkins . |
| 26 | It had to be done very quickly because once the tanks arrived we would not be allowed to go any further until they had passed through the city . |
| 27 | The embankments which he had vainly tried to have reinforced by the zemindars would now be brimming and beginning to overflow … within a few hours the country around the embankments would be flooded and ignorance , stupidity and superstition would have triumphed once more as they have triumphed again and again in human affairs since time began ! |
| 28 | They drove back more carefully than they had come , Rory well aware of every aching mile , all thirty-five and more of them . |
| 29 | You do read terrible stories in the papers every day of men who 've murdered their wives , get off even though they 've chopped their wives into a hundred bits , driven to the Lake District overnight , dumped the body and gone back |
| 30 | It was as if a couple of animals hounded from one burrow , nest or lair had im-mediately taken possession of another and started up just where they had left off . |