Example sentences of "they [adv] again " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two Commandos had taken their boots off yesterday evening and found after a couple of hours standing to they were unable to get them on again , both feet had swollen badly . |
| 2 | Jane had removed her specs for a short myopic rest , but now put them on again , quickly . |
| 3 | When Victoria found the grit from the paths got into her sandals , Richard removed her shoes and socks and shook all the gravel out of them , folding her socks for her to put them on again in the special way that her nanny did . |
| 4 | ‘ I imagined my father sitting in this enormous building doing nothing but taking off his socks and putting them on again . |
| 5 | Felicity , having taken off her shoes , was quite unable to put them on again . |
| 6 | But do that and she 'd never get them on again , and she would arrive at Ardneavie not only late , but shoeless ! |
| 7 | The character must make a Cl test or else be forced by nausea to strip off his armour and clothes , unable to put them on again until they have been thoroughly cleaned and washed . |
| 8 | As he scrutinised me intently , he kept taking off his glasses and then putting them on again . |
| 9 | It 's time we were getting them on again . |
| 10 | She kept fidgeting with her bonnet , dropping her hat-pin , taking off her gloves and putting them on again . |
| 11 | ‘ The girls would take their dresses off to tiptoe through that awful mire and then , coming back put them on again . |
| 12 | If you want an Italian restaurant where the waiters bring you menus instead of shouting at you , where they leave the lights on instead of turning them off every twenty minutes , and where they make you get up and dance before they 'll turn them on again , then do n't try the Vecchio Reccione , however convenient it is for Stringfellows . |
| 13 | She had one pair of trousers , and she could n't put them on again until they were dry . |
| 14 | Dr Rafaelo smiled , as he took his glasses out and put them on again , and smoothed his hair back . |
| 15 | Then when things get better they might not be so keen to take them on again , which again will affect service . |
| 16 | IF you have been giving you house plants a summer airing in the garden , it is now time to bring them in again . |
| 17 | I ought to perhaps we ought to start closing them in again then that 'll keep |
| 18 | Will be having them in again ? |
| 19 | Sometimes one or other would roam round the room picking things up , examining them and putting them down again ; or looking with unfocused eyes at nothing at all . |
| 20 | Prices of appellation d'origine controlee wines rose to what some would say were over-ambitious levels but lack of demand has forced them down again by a tenth or more in Britain with even bigger discounts available in French supermarkets . |
| 21 | He stared hard at the pattern , gathered them up , threw them down again . |
| 22 | Sarah went round the room , picking up objects and putting them down again . |
| 23 | He guessed they were for the morals group , since neither he nor Mrs Frizzell ever really read a book , and he put them down again , still mystified . |
| 24 | She lifted three legs off the ground and put them down again . |
| 25 | At last the sun-god put them down again , back in the forest where they had been before , and he said , " Listen to me . |
| 26 | Noise had become Ariel 's lot : she , who had lifted her feet and put them down again so quietly on the slopes that birds did not stir at her passing , was used to hearing a single song in her head at any one time . |
| 27 | a few years ago , the mail revealed a photograph of an elaborately chased soup tureen engraved with the arms of the Duke of York , the second son of George III , who was immortalised in the nursery rhyme as the man who marched his men up the hill and marched them down again . |
| 28 | He moved the coat aside , quickly lifted Emilia 's skirt and the petticoats beneath , then drew them down again . |
| 29 | Well , they marched them to the top of the hill and they marched them down again . |
| 30 | Unable to settle , she trailed round the small cottage , picking things up , putting them down again , with no clear idea of what to do . |