Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | James Weenes , in a conversation he had with the wife of a London weaver in September 1690 , expressed his opinion that William was " a Dutch Dogg and an Usurper " , who " like a Villain came and took the Crowne from the head of his Father " , and also that " the nobility was a parcel of Rogues and all of them lived as high as Kings . |
| 2 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 3 | The four of them lived together and Lee kept her counsel and Hosanna stayed in contact with the spirits and Larry larked around and looked longingly at himself in convenient reflecting surfaces . |
| 4 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 5 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 6 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 7 | Old land-owning families prospered and built under Queen Elizabeth I 's reign , but many of them became badly unstuck during the Civil War . |
| 8 | Everything around them became slightly abnormal , the new occupation , the environment , the dress they wore , the physical and emotional climate . |
| 9 | Still , during Tolkien 's lifetime the words and the realities behind them became more and more familiar , bringing with them , one should note , entirely new ideas about the nature and limitations of human will . |
| 10 | They also acquired the railways and many of them became as proud of their state systems as of the other perquisites of the British connection . |
| 11 | Two of them became quite well known . |
| 12 | Oh , I think the majority always have worked hard , but they , some of them became quite flamboyant and extravagant in their gestures about what they , how they wanted to change things , and I think nowadays they , perhaps sadly , really , they feel they , they ca n't so they just knuckle down to it all . |
| 13 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 14 | The two of them clung together , soggily , hugging closer and closer until Rachel knocked on the door and asked them to come out . |
| 15 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Are you making a film ? ’ one of them asked innocently in French . |
| 17 | Using the numerous hollows and small rises unnoticed to untrained soldiers on a bare hillside , Turton and his men once lay hidden in this deadground while the Japanese moving to encircle them passed by , leaving the Australian patrol to come off the hill at nightfall . |
| 18 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |
| 19 | This was no surprise : neither of them cared much for Granny . |
| 20 | ‘ One would see them lowered very slowly . ’ |
| 21 | Neither of them realised then just how handy the cellar lights would be before long . |
| 22 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 23 | But the three of them got on and Fred explained that ‘ we desperately wanted to turn into a dance band but did n't know how ’ . |
| 24 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 25 | Some of them got on . |
| 26 | There 's the kids , too — I want them got away from him . |
| 27 | One or both of them got up early to make break&st in good time . |
| 28 | ‘ Some of them got up my nose a bit … right sods the lot of them … there 's a collection of them , the Technical Drawing staff . |
| 29 | When the three of them got up to leave , Melissa glanced across at Dora and met a look of concentrated malevolence that took her by surprise . |
| 30 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |