Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] they [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if they kept on flat out , every ten seconds they 'd go a further so many hundred metres , for ever and ever . |
| 2 | Her relations were keen that I should meet her , perhaps because they hoped in desperation that I might be able to help her . |
| 3 | They therefore chose to look after their children during the week , and to allow their husbands to do so while they went to work on Sundays . |
| 4 | She had regarded men as men had been used to regard women : pleasant and pleasurable enough when they stayed in line but outside the mainstream of life and more or less irrelevant to its principal purpose , which was keeping body and soul together with as little effort and as much comfort as was practically consistent with this aim . |
| 5 | Both these measures were adopted by the Liberals and implemented soon after they came to power . |
| 6 | It might have been a cat knocking an empty tumbler off the bar — except that they did n't keep a cat , and all the glasses had been washed up and put away before they went to bed . |
| 7 | ‘ She ought to have told him just before they went to church , ’ said Marian . |
| 8 | Locke 's contemporaries marvelled at this human creation just as they marvelled at nature as seen through the microscope . |
| 9 | After hearing that they had been attending a high school graduation party , they were released by the judge on the condition that they were each driven to their parents ' home exactly as they appeared in court — with only a blanket for |
| 10 | Our teachers cycled to school and as soon as they were seen coming up the road , children walked along and behaved like little angels — if not , they would be in trouble as soon as they got into school . |
| 11 | As soon as they got within range of Dyson everyone seemed to drive badly . |
| 12 | With a full venue in front of them , Catherine Wheel started to produce sparks as soon as they went on stage with a determination to take Leo Fender 's finest to their limits . |
| 13 | She said no more and as soon as they arrived at Broom House she said , ‘ No need to take me right up to the house — I can walk up the drive . ’ |
| 14 | He decided , and finally decided , the following as soon as they appeared for decision : |
| 15 | He recovered sufficiently to make love once more before they went to bed , but it was n't as frantic or as demanding and he fell asleep afterwards on the sofa . |
| 16 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 17 | One question of particular importance is whether trusts offered any interpretative advantages : were the jurists generally liable to cavil less and interpret more liberally when they came within sight of a trust ? |
| 18 | Mainly because they looked like chicken 's feet . |
| 19 | For example , in 1967 the Monopolies Commission investigated the general effect on the public interest of certain restrictive practices so far as they prevailed in relation to the supply of professional services . |
| 20 | It was difficult for them to appreciate that [ h ] -loss could ever have been anything else but a stigmatized form : in so far as they knew of evidence for it in earlier centuries , they tended to dismiss it , seemingly in the belief that ‘ vulgar ’ and ‘ careless ’ usage is not implicated in linguistic change . |
| 21 | Yet his criticism has not , by and large , been for the tabloid newspapers whose standards fell to new lows during the 1980s ; instead , he has reserved his bile for investigative journalists , particularly if they worked for television , and for those newspaper reporters who decided to boycott his lobby briefings . |
| 22 | Financial support is perhaps the most accessible to documentation , although even this is not always clear , especially for the great majority of the population who did not codify their financial support for kin through wills and settlements , simply because they lived from hand to mouth . |
| 23 | Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be . |
| 24 | Unseated jockeys were scurrying around and fighting madly to reunite themselves with their mounts , but even as they clambered on board there was nowhere to go . |
| 25 | Even though they lived inside stone buildings , they furnished them like tents . |
| 26 | Both were young men on their way to work , and both said they were very frequently stopped by police at about 5 am as they went to work . |
| 27 | ‘ My guess is they came for some of Connie Fraser 's clothes , found the place upside down and me on the floor , then when they reported to Bonanza he told 'em to forget about the clothes . ’ |
| 28 | Her mouth sought his again and again as they broke for breath . |
| 29 | From a dark corner of the stairs we admired the ladies as they went up to their rooms , and then again as they descended to dinner in their elegant evening dresses . |
| 30 | Er for example the ones that they fitted on the , the vertical boring mills , were round er in nature , bolted through the centre to a tool post and subsequently when they went into action , they were so hard you know , that they could outstrip the existing type of tip tool erm because the , the material itself stood up better to the cutting flow er er rather than the , the tip tool which was inclined to chip . |