Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Sunday night at the Wood Green Odeon a group of youths and girls were making so much more than a tolerable racket that I eventually asked them to quieten down . |
| 2 | The industry 's own appliance selling effort was not dictated purely by its retailing interests , but was biased towards winning that part of the domestic electricity load which most helped them to increase electricity sales while minimising costs overall . |
| 3 | It only made them laugh more . |
| 4 | Telling the poorer workers that others were producing more , simply led to demoralisation ; they already knew that , and telling them so only made them feel worse . |
| 5 | The bracelet not only made them fly , but had taken them to the moon . |
| 6 | I suddenly realised they did n't like each other ; that they were rivals . |
| 7 | As they drove along Three Springs Road , Juliet suddenly realised they did n't know Miss Rose 's address ! |
| 8 | ( We only asked them to comment here if it did not meet expectations — either they all had low expectations or the conference was a high standard . ) |
| 9 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 10 | None of this was the assertion of a separate nationality ; they were all subjects of the King of England , and relied on this for their safety , but this reassuring English presence only encouraged them to manage their own local affairs in smaller and smaller units . |
| 11 | But perhaps that only encouraged them to move faster elsewhere . ’ |
| 12 | Women suddenly discovered they did n't want to stay at the kitchen sink all day ; they wanted the fulfilment that comes from work , too . |
| 13 | then when his great moment came and his wife came to cut the cake all the photographers suddenly decided they needed to clean the lenses of their camera and his wife 's picture was never taken . |
| 14 | The young teachers , recently assigned to their posts , perhaps felt they had little to lose by openly expressing their grievances because their salaries and living standards were low . |
| 15 | Perhaps he only meant them to meet when he could fit her in with his other engagements . |
| 16 | The IBA 's increasing concern for programme standards and balance , plus pressure from the smaller companies that rightly felt they had more and more production potential to offer , added to the complications . |
| 17 | He said the young people obviously thought they had some measure of adult approval . |
| 18 | The Swiss proved to be ferocious fighters , and in 1415 the Habsburgs were driven out of the Aargau , but although Aarau was allowed to keep the rights granted by the Habsburgs , it was soon clear to the Argovians that Swiss victory merely meant they had exchanged one landlord for another . |
| 19 | So greatly did they enjoy the celebrations that they stayed for three days . |
| 20 | Not only did they drench her in a water fight when she did n't have a change of clothes and throw her on the muck heap , but on Friday evening offered her a roll filled with Doggie Dins , so she spent the rest of the night throwing up . |
| 21 | Not only did they bring stretches of water into country often lacking in them , as in many parts of the Midlands , with consequent changes in bird and plant life , but they also brought — mostly for the first time — aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , tunnels , locks , lifts and inclined planes , and many attractive bridges , and they greatly influenced the growth and appearance of many towns . |
| 22 | In the Greek Church , the mystical writings of the fifth century author who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite achieved near-canonical status : not only did they inform the devotional and liturgical life of the people , but they also influenced the development of Orthodox theology which became hostile to any rationalistic or naturalistic ways of interpreting the reality of God and religious truth . |
| 23 | But in nineteen ninety in London not only did they hold on , they won dramatic victories in a number of London boroughs . |
| 24 | Not only did they make the move , but they also managed to negotiate some funding and an arrangement whereby their staff could continue to be trained on E&Y courses . |
| 25 | Not only did they monitor landings at the wharf , they also sifted through refuse dumps to find the remains of butchered dolphins , to estimate catches in previous seasons . |
| 26 | Not only did they wreck the London skyline in general . |
| 27 | Not only did they raise more than £1,000 but they also succeeded in helping to recruit men for a battalion of the Green Howards that was being formed at Northallerton . |
| 28 | Not only did they guard the bridge crossing the Tyne , but they also stood at the junction of the Stanegate , running west towards Carlisle , and Dere Street , one of the two main arterial routes from York into central southern Scotland . |
| 29 | Not only did they hit the target of 28 for January and February combined , they went on to chalk up a total of 64 ! |
| 30 | Not only did they multiply , with space now for reflection and analysis in addition to hard news , they were joined by education , economic , home affairs and social services correspondents , among others . |