Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They became worried later on when Guy 's temperature went up dramatically , so he was transferred to a local major hospital . |
| 2 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 3 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 4 | Friendship is more important than mountaineering , and so for their sakes I told them they 'd done very well and we turned back to the prospect of a more leisurely Sunday afternoon , with colour supplements , cats , coffee and carpets to lie on . |
| 5 | Course they were worried because they they 'd bit off more than they could chew , same as you say about this like you see . |
| 6 | In addition the costs and benefits of new procedures change over time as they become diffused more widely and in comparison to available alternatives . |
| 7 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 8 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 9 | I can imagine some unpleasant things happening with the sling , too ; the sling-bombs have to be on a pretty short fuse if they 're to detonate soon enough after they land not to be throw-backable , and I 've had a couple of close calls already when they 've gone off just after they left the sling . |
| 10 | The memories I like to remember is er when things have worked out for children and they 've gone back home and if they have n't gone back home , then they 've moved on er to nice adoptive families . |
| 11 | they 've lost as far as money 's concerned . |
| 12 | I 've tried every cheese they 've got on here and there 's nay taste whatsoever |
| 13 | but , er , I do n't think they 've got as far as yours have |
| 14 | Do you think they 've come on then since we interviewed here ? |
| 15 | Yeah they 're all up now , and they 've come out just as |
| 16 | They 've had far more than what we 've ever had |
| 17 | They had grown up together and their relationship was not one of repose or listlessness . |
| 18 | By the time he got to his cab , they had gone as far as Holborn Circus . |
| 19 | Passing lamp-lit windows through which they could see sleeping Japanese soldiers and men talking in small groups , they had gone as far as a machine-gun post among the buildings — probably part of the anti-aircraft defences-when a Japanese soldier came up . |
| 20 | Duncan looked at Myeloski ; they had gone as far as they could with the air-traffic controller . |
| 21 | Indeed they had gone so far as to bring one Nicoleyva , from the Soviet Union to plead with British men and women to do just this , and open a second front in Europe . |
| 22 | They had gone out together but there had not been a sexual relationship between them as Faye had been unwilling to sleep with Harris , said Mr Chadd . |
| 23 | The independent ethic they had courted so successfully since their conception was beginning to fall hopelessly apart . |
| 24 | They had done so well that the convent put photographs of the two girls in the local paper . |
| 25 | They had moved there soon after Sir Charles had begun to live in Baskerville Hall . |
| 26 | They had worked so hard as children in the fields that each field and tree had become a dear presence , especially the hedges . |
| 27 | They had worked together often and got on well . |
| 28 | A good deal of credulity and nonsense was indulged in the name of psychology but there was no nonsense about the concept of ‘ psychological obsolescence ’ , the new technique for making people dissatisfied with what they had bought more quickly than ever before . |
| 29 | They had drifted much farther than I would have thought possible . |
| 30 | They had spread as far as he could see , grown up to the ceiling and broken through it . |