Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 2 | and the Monday , and they eventually turned up on the Tuesday . |
| 3 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 4 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
| 5 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 6 | Six more joined it , slowly screwing out of nothing , until they suddenly stretched together into a tangled web of pulsating tendrils . |
| 7 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 8 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 9 | They just got on with the job . |
| 10 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 11 | The curators of the grand US museums like the Metropolitan look down their noses at these shows , but the citizens of Memphis are pleased as can be , because before WONDERS they just felt out in the boondocks . |
| 12 | But they just said all over the garden there was just dead carcasses of animals . |
| 13 | So they they did n't post them they people did the bidding they just went round like a postman and |
| 14 | Somebody they just fetched out of the street ? |
| 15 | A minority of Tories were prepared to concede that there could be exceptions to the theory of non-resistance in extremis , and in this they admittedly came close to the doctrine of some of the more conservative Whigs . |
| 16 | They finally came down on the side of 36-year-old Anne Bancroft , although she had seldom played comedy , having made her name in such powerful dramas as The Miracle Worker and The Pumpkin Eater . |
| 17 | As they finally drove away from the scene , Paddy Mayne was observed to jump out of his jeep , run across to a parked aircraft and place a bomb on the wing . |
| 18 | When they finally sat down to the meal it was Moran himself who brought McQuaid back into the day . |
| 19 | When they finally caught up with the aftershocks of the mid-Eighties housequake , they immediately started looking for ways to whip up an old-style moral panic . |
| 20 | After riding for some time in the dark , they finally caught up with the cart at a toll-gate . |
| 21 | At first they managed with an old Hillman Minx estate , but they soon traded up to a Ford Transit van . |
| 22 | In Budapest , they still strolled around for the sheer pleasure of it . |
| 23 | This actually was stopped in 1766 , but they still went down as a job — emancipation . |
| 24 | United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline . |
| 25 | Of course , when communist leaders like Trotsky talked about how , after the revolution , the communist state would move the features of the landscape around like so much furniture in a room , they still stood only on the threshold of the environmental disasters which have ensued throughout the communist world as dams have been built , rivers redirected , forests cut down , and refuse dumped with abandon to meet the requirements of the latest Five Year Plan . |
| 26 | every time somebody shot a goal all , everybody , they always walked backwards like a foot . |
| 27 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
| 28 | They also suffered most from the centre-left government 's failure to push through reforms — in particular , its failure to modernize the badly overstretched social infrastructure in the northern cities to which the migrants had flocked . |
| 29 | They also helped out with the Aladin Pro dive computers . |
| 30 | They also tied in with a felt ‘ horizontal ’ structure in the work . |