Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 2 | remains something of a mystery , but perhaps they took it as a reference to our well-known problems with fractured sewer pipes and the directive from Europe . |
| 3 | Perhaps they used him as a mine-detector ! |
| 4 | So they put me in a detention centre for six months . |
| 5 | so they put him on a life support did they ? |
| 6 | So they cover it with a mattress , and disguise the mound with piles of old clothes . |
| 7 | So they moved them to the Catherine Palace . |
| 8 | So they put him in the kitchens . |
| 9 | So they leave it to the ones who do n't recognise degradation when they see it — I 've been a social worker , I know about these people — women too stupid and disorganised to — ‘ |
| 10 | The children put all the presents in the pram , and at three o'clock they pushed it to the Perks 's little yellow house . |
| 11 | Together they offered it to the world 's women . |
| 12 | When I was running away they put me in an approved school for girls run by nuns . |
| 13 | Finally they wheeled her on a trolley down the draughty brown corridor , through the swing doors , into Ward 3-South where a dim light showed the children lying down . |
| 14 | Quickly they built it into a pyramid over the torch . |
| 15 | Nearby , the trees were distinguishable as oaks , ashes , chestnuts , yews , but gradually they resolved themselves into a universal greenness . |
| 16 | The more people travel the more they expose themselves to the risk of an accident . |
| 17 | No I mean usually they show you on the T V when they 're leaving do n't they ? |
| 18 | For once they had him by the balls . |
| 19 | ‘ And always they place you in the forefront . |
| 20 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 21 | ‘ A couple of weeks later they dragged him off the ice in North Harbour . ‘ |
| 22 | Clearly they heard him in the Cornerways flats and in Sea House and in the Dasses ' house and in the lounges of the Queen Victoria Hotel . |
| 23 | It 's very difficult to get professional advice that is apposite — you used to be able to get free advice from the Ministry of Agriculture but now they charge you for the privilege of being told how not to farm . ’ |
| 24 | Individuals were given the opportunity to achieve much for themselves but too often they did it at the expense of others . |
| 25 | The Pollexton dynasty had finished by 1747 , and from then on various relations spurned Mothecome until eventually they sold it at the end of the eighteenth century to a Mildmay forbear . |
| 26 | And I 'd rather they did something about the service instead of advertising that they 're getting there when they 're patently not . ’ |
| 27 | Ah well they put me on the top rate of pay , which was quite good , thirty five shilling a week . |
| 28 | Oh well they got it during the War . |
| 29 | Well they took her at the there was a I was gon na give one . |
| 30 | Well they do it by the kilo which works out cheaper . |