Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 2 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |
| 3 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |
| 4 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 5 | Sky TV yesterday announced they have exclusive rights to show his championship challenge and , if successful , his first defence . |
| 6 | You know , I always thought they put anti-bonk pills in the coffee . |
| 7 | Charlton 's excellent win still left them needing two victories from their last to games to be certain of left a play-off place . |
| 8 | the employer tendency to favour the industry-type of bargaining was reinforced by the broad socialist , class consciousness of major European unions which probably led them to favour this approach , since it would engage ‘ employers through mass class action ’ , and also extend protection to a larger part of the workforce . |
| 9 | As the denomination most solidly based in the countryside , they also realized they had little choice in the thousands of new streets with their red and yellow brick terraces that were covering England 's acres . |
| 10 | Spenser certainly found ready contemporary imitators , most noticeably among fellow poets such as Barnabe Rich or Sir John Davies whose interest in Irish affairs also provoked them to write political tracts . |
| 11 | It also encouraged them to resist any change whatever in local institutions or in elections for community representation , except with the specific approval of the Jordanian government and the PLO itself . |
| 12 | He also urged them to remember Tory supporters living overseas at the next election . |
| 13 | In a few areas local government agencies took some steps to tackle this problem , but real progress did not come until central government gave local authorities powers to act effectively , and also required them to take such action . |
| 14 | It also required them to disclose any commissions they earn to the client — guaranteeing a more difficult sale . |
| 15 | They complained that the Law of Similars often obliged them to use overpriced components , handicapping their products in world markets . |
| 16 | John Goldthorpe and his associates followed up these arguments in 1962 with a study of affluent workers in the car industry : how far had they become middle class in their behaviours and attitudes , with increased spending power ? |
| 17 | While working class women increasingly went out to work , usually out of economic necessity , philanthropists and policy makers increasingly urged them to pay more attention to their duties as wives and mothers , which only tended to exacerbate the difficulties they experienced . |
| 18 | A statement issued today said they regret any offence caused by the Magpie Column . |
| 19 | Among the West Saxons it may be that it was Aethelbald 's support which enabled Aethelheard to defeat the aetheling , Oswald , and that this established both Aethelheard and his brother , Cuthred , who subsequently succeeded Aethelheard in 739 , as Aethelbald 's dependants or at least obliged them to make territorial concessions . |
| 20 | Every dealer put his throwaway leads in it , only their leader occasionally forced them to contribute dealable ones . |