Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The variations within that calculation are not extreme — perhaps an extra half-hour at breakfast ; perhaps they did not leave Aberdeen precisely ( Boswell says ‘ about eight in the morning ’ ) , perhaps the road wound around to make thirty miles . |
| 2 | Perhaps they did n't take things to heart so much . |
| 3 | They live in the past , believing that if only they had had loving parents , or if only little sister had n't been born , or if only they had n't married so-and-so , then everything would be fine . |
| 4 | So they did n't like telephones . |
| 5 | So they did n't try fruit again . |
| 6 | Det Insp Wayne Williams , of Wrexham CID , said yesterday they had now had confirmation by fax that he is ready for collection . |
| 7 | Now they stood around eating fragments of sandwich and watching its eyes . |
| 8 | In the sense of their access to political power it was not so much a case that women were ‘ returned ’ to the family since they had never really left it to go out to get power — rather they had traditionally exercised power , if at all , by virtue of their familial positions and as the public and private spheres were separated , women were left behind . |
| 9 | and you had , and the man there looked at his stock and he would n't , he would n't sell you rub well they did n't get rubbish in , because |
| 10 | Well they did n't have trucks for excursions , they did n't take any sheep and cattle to the seaside for a day . |
| 11 | Yet never did we instigate a fracas ; provocation always came from the other fellows , for various reasons ; maybe they did n't like Jews , or as often happened , they simply threw a challenge in order to test our ability to rule the roost . |
| 12 | unclear get to buy your own I , I er did n't have rubber boots , I had big leather boots up to me thigh , that 's what I bought and that leather then they did n't have nails in the shoes in the , in the bottom they had wooden pegs , so that the , your leather was held by wooden pegs and the and the leather at that time were the thigh boots , you could roll them right the way down , . |
| 13 | The advance guard of men on mules and horses came up in regular lines but as soon as they got near they dashed up at full gallop , shouting and brandishing their weapons , each man shrieking out how many men he had killed ; and then they wheeled round to make room for others . |
| 14 | A sign which went up on the Raiders ' dressing-room door after the match , advising that only Australian media personnel were welcome , bore witness to the visitors ' touchiness about defeat , though at least they did not follow Manly 's example and grumble about the referee . |
| 15 | In the 1980s , among an entire group of paediatric anaesthetists , a substantial fraction believed that newborn children did not feel pain and therefore they did not give analgesics to newborn babies . |