Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wonder whether the master — ’ Suddenly they saw me and broke off their conversation . |
| 2 | Using scores derived from the Jarman underprivileged area index for this purpose seems to have face validity — the index was developed from a survey of one in 10 British general practitioners who were asked to weight social factors according to how much they thought they increased workload . |
| 3 | I also get stopped by strangers on the street who tell me how much they enjoyed it . |
| 4 | Magnificent though Rasari was , you were left wondering just how much they needed him when newcomer Ratu Sakeasi showed Tim Horan and Jason Little a clean pair of heels in a 60-metre chase for the line . |
| 5 | The rooms at the back were of course dark and pokey and the cupboards had a strange sickening shut-up smell that remained however much they aired them . |
| 6 | De Tocqueville 's notes reveal not only the conscious opposition to such a mode of religious power but also how deep the solidarity between clergy and people was , the degree to which the poor , half the catholic population at the time , looked to the clergy for material and spiritual leadership , guidance , and assistance , and how much they trusted them . |
| 7 | And Gemma had not the heart to tell either of them how much they wearied her . |
| 8 | Honest to God , that 's how much they started me off on . |
| 9 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 10 | Gaveston knew how much they hated him . |
| 11 | Then she remembered Peter telling her how much his brother liked women — and how much they liked him . |
| 12 | They left her feeling completely enclosed in a warm glow of attention and to Moran 's repeated questions over the next days were able to say genuinely how much they liked her . |
| 13 | And apparently they believed it , as it did the trick . |
| 14 | Apparently they thought it was the cleaning heads by the , the heads of it , I do n't know , I know nothing about it . |
| 15 | All I was told is that you 're getting twelve months guarantee , but you 've got to have a three thousand mile service , and as the gentleman said erm I recorded the deliveries and sent them all back and on the third one , when I took it in I asked if they 'd put a new set of points in for me and erm unfortunately when it came out there was no compression at all and because because I it was suggested that I dug my heels in a bit and got an independent report and erm basically they told me to get lost because it cost fifty pound to do the report . |
| 16 | It flattered her , where she was most susceptible of flattery , to think how , wound about in their hearts , however long they lived she would be woven — ’ See ? |
| 17 | After I 'd quietened down they left me alone . |
| 18 | ‘ Perhaps they clapped her away once . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps they thought they were . |
| 20 | Perhaps they thought she was part of his troupe ? |
| 21 | Perhaps they thought it was for unwanted babies ; she did start to explain about the new home for blind children , but never had to finish . |
| 22 | Perhaps they thought you wanted seconds . |
| 23 | Perhaps they thought I was a wild man myself , in my strange home-made clothes of animals ' skins , and with my long hair and beard . |
| 24 | Perhaps they thought he was doing research , he still wore his suits . |
| 25 | Perhaps they saw it as a last call for help to come to a failing Britain . |
| 26 | remains something of a mystery , but perhaps they took it as a reference to our well-known problems with fractured sewer pipes and the directive from Europe . |
| 27 | Perhaps they meant it , but he died of a fever his first winter here and it must have seemed to him that they 'd broken a promise . |
| 28 | Perhaps they moved them already . ’ |
| 29 | Perhaps they decided he had nothing useful to say — ; which is n't far from the truth . |
| 30 | The Shah seemed very pleased attitude was changing previously they had urged him to be a purely constitutional monarch ; now perhaps they wanted him to involve himself more in Iranian politics , He thought he must do that — otherwise there would be confusion and chaos . |