Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him |
| 2 | Those sort of Places made so much they could afford the luxury of high standards . |
| 3 | In trying to struggle on independently they have less time to concentrate on schoolwork . |
| 4 | ‘ We subscribed to a Customs and Excise newsletter to keep pace with the changes — and things were happening so fast they even brought out a special Christmas edition . |
| 5 | They found the windows of their rooms frozen so hard they could not close them , and the players took their pre-match sleep with snow on the bedroom floor . |
| 6 | Some parliamentarian troops in Kidderminster , believing the rest of the army was coming their way , fled so rapidly they left some carriages and supplies in the town square . |
| 7 | Curtains of closely woven cotton lace were stretched across the windows , fastened so tightly they kept out both air and sun . |
| 8 | And then another weird thing — wan na hear about my playground ? — there were all these coffins from the cemetery and the ground had eroded so much they were coming out . |
| 9 | Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one . |
| 10 | On the flatter stretches they talked and laughed : where the path rose more steeply they lapsed into silence , each lost in her own thoughts . |
| 11 | As the dragons fly further away they begin to dwindle . |
| 12 | If nobody damn well tells them in the first place that they can opt out then they ca n't opt out can they ? |
| 13 | Because if one stands out then they lose what they 've got , they lose their job . |
| 14 | So with the encouragement of the local authority , the senior staff at Nightingale House have organised an induction programme for new care assistants which starts as soon they begin work . |
| 15 | If carried out literally they could be murderous . |
| 16 | The allied commanders must also consider how long they can continue the air campaign without wearing out their airmen . |
| 17 | Making the most of a walk-on role at the start of the campaign , Margaret Thatcher made many Tory candidates realise how much they missed her strong presence on the political stage . |
| 18 | It made me suddenly realise how much they had changed . |
| 19 | The second and most detailed stage will be a series of three interview surveys : of solicitors , to establish the amount and kinds of work they do ; of general legal services , such as the Citizens ' Advice Bureaux , to establish how far they complement or duplicate the service provided by solicitors ; and of a sample of the population from selected parishes to find out the kinds of issues that have caused individuals to resort to legal advice . |
| 20 | However , charges of corruption were certainly made at the time , and one must try to discover how firmly they were based . |
| 21 | After some three months have passed it is often wise to conduct a full review of the new systems and to discover how far they have progressed . |
| 22 | I can even compare them with nationally agreed criteria and say how well they have done , and grade them against each other when they leave me , if I must . |
| 23 | There are days when members approach me , and say how much they enjoy the club members who thank me for enriching their lives . |
| 24 | For example , it would be interesting to know how far they would be prepared to deliver service to frail old people who present particular problems , if they can make a living with easier clients . |
| 25 | It is a difficult question to know how far they merely duplicate the existing common law powers that arise from the obligation imposed upon the police to preserve the peace , which plainly permit the police to give instructions to limit the numbers at a gathering if that should be necessary to prevent an imminent breach of the peace . |
| 26 | It was clearly a spot height — in fact there was a small stone to mark it , but it was almost hidden in rough grass and gorse , and Maggie really did n't want to know how far they had climbed . |
| 27 | You do n't have to record people 's brainwaves in order to know how long they sleep . |
| 28 | People will understate how much they value the good in order to reduce their own payments , just as in a private market . |
| 29 | There 's no reporting back , for instance , so they do n't know how well they 've done or what mistakes they make . |
| 30 | Yeah , I do n't know how well they 'd get offended if we |