Example sentences of "and [adv] [adv] [subord] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was simply that most people , while wanting the ends , preferred to walk away from the means : especially when they were distasteful , and most especially when they failed . |
| 2 | Most commonly young women entered , and so long as they remained unmarried , stayed in domestic service . |
| 3 | It did seem that the main force squadrons in other Groups had more casualties than we did , partly because they had to cope with fully awakened defences , gun and searchlight crews as well as fighters , after PFF had done their job , and perhaps also because they had a higher proportion of new , inexperienced crews who were usually the first to come to grief . |
| 4 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 5 | Employers complained of such traits as often and as vehemently as they complained of " riotous and unlawful combination " . |
| 6 | We took four years to do it , partly so people would get accustomed to the idea , and it was fantastic that during those four years people worked at least as hard and as well as they had in the previous four . |
| 7 | The drugs that depressed the immune system were stopped , and as quickly as they had grown , the masses in the lungs began to disappear . |
| 8 | Paul Richardson was the first person they 'd met on the island who was prepared to work as long and as hard as they did . |
| 9 | Most were allowed to stay out till 11.30 during the week and as late as they liked at weekends . |
| 10 | On the other hand , the middle classes would have been shocked and appalled if the workers had actually asked for the sort of life they themselves took for granted , and even more if they had looked like achieving it . |
| 11 | Everyone else was allowed a lot of latitude , particularly in sexual matters , and then just before they died they took the consolamentum which permitted them to enter the life of the spirit . ’ |
| 12 | From a dark corner of the stairs we admired the ladies as they went up to their rooms , and then again as they descended to dinner in their elegant evening dresses . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , so long as they did not organise — and sometimes even when they did — the workers themselves provided their employers with a solution to the problem of labour management : by and large they liked to work , and their expectations were remarkably modest . |