Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb base] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see some of them only live in a small cottage with no garden and that 's an extension to their home , you can go down there with the children |
| 2 | Despite the fact that ‘ if only ’ implies that things could be different , they do not actually go away when the ideal conditions are achieved , they just surface in a new guise . |
| 3 | They generally believe in a cosmic memory ( known officially as psychometry ) . |
| 4 | ‘ Look , ’ sniffed Mel , ‘ these guys are only trying to make a bob or two … and from what I gather they usually rake in a fair bit . ’ |
| 5 | They , they probably come in a foul mood , and er , they , they keep up that er bickering over the whole of their stay . |
| 6 | They got married and they now live in a beautiful flat in the centre of London . ’ |
| 7 | She displays how to build living structures of pictorial importance by weaving individual dancers or groups deliberately and solemnly so that they frequently pause in a meaningful picture of distinctive shape . |
| 8 | Harley MS 6579 and marked by italics : Or further , in chapter forty-six , where Hilton is talking about the word " Iesu " as a means of focusing all the inheritance of life that the recluse desires , he says : These insertions do not add anything new , they simply expand in a particular way what has been said and they are not absolutely consistent in all the manuscripts in which they appear . |
| 9 | The technology is based on the observation that , when particles are placed in a rotating electric field , they too rotate in a characteristic way . |
| 10 | Although the plots of the two books would seem to be very different , they actually end in a similar manner , on a promising note . |