Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or maybe they just did n't have architects within three miles of the sea . |
| 2 | His grandfather had been sent to the stars in 1912 , when they still knew how to raise megaliths " the old-fashioned way " , which Ranteallo ruefully confessed to us was damn well more than he could do for his father now . |
| 3 | They also worked hard to channel shopfloor activity through new plant-level union structures . |
| 4 | Mr Lindsey was predicting in early January that the majority of customers this year would probably opt for a variable rate , on the basis that they probably did not believe interest rates would drop very much further . |
| 5 | Where once dockers and carmen had gone in for breakfast or a midday meal they now sat around drinking mugs of tea and eating slices of toast and dripping . |
| 6 | But this would also account for the fact that within this system many singers — Marie Lloyd , for instance — retained performing styles heavily influenced by oral traditions ; they often did not read music — as , notoriously , the accompanying orchestras had to remember . |
| 7 | They really dragged just watching telly , and everyone wanted to watch the soap operas and sit coms . |
| 8 | They really knew how to raise money and , as a result , the final figure collected was about £1.5 million . |
| 9 | They even doubled back to watch Francis yet still managed to send away their forwards . |
| 10 | But they surely did not expect Lothar to accept these terms . |
| 11 | They have the same wistful air as the terrace further back , as if they too had once entertained hopes of the lane going somewhere in life . |
| 12 | They certainly had n't done Hatton . |
| 13 | In other words , Indian parents who could afford amniocentesis , the rich ones , wanted sons and they certainly did n't want daughters , because they aborted ninety five point five percent of the daughters but none of the sons , even when the sons were genetically defective . |
| 14 | They certainly did n't get medals . |