Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] they [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever it was that lured or drove them there , these creatures , over the millennia , lumbering after their food , became more and more efficient at moving and breathing out of water . |
| 2 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 3 | Studies of social mobility , of schools , of work , of leisure , of youth culture , even of the family , either ignored women or saw them only through male eyes . |
| 4 | They also sorted out financial problems , tried to get clients to wash or change their clothes or bedlinen , or brought them home when they wandered away . |
| 5 | The flaunting of symbols has so often been the occasion for counter-demonstrations and rioting that the government has often banned parades or re-routed them away from particularly sensitive areas . |
| 6 | If the present article can not answer every question raised by Carse , it will answer this one : ‘ did they [ at the Opéra ] or did they not beat time with a baton throughout the whole opera ? ’ ( p.311 ) . |
| 7 | And and was i how did you work it , was it like a certain amount of men per lorry or did they just come in convoy ? |
| 8 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 9 | Were the technicians indifferent to what they were recording or did they sometimes become aroused too , and if so , were there rules against them joining in ? |
| 10 | Or had they not known about it ? |
| 11 | I gave them a cup of Ruski čaj [ Russian tea ] , and that made them very , very happy , ’ |
| 12 | If people lived mean , dirty , anti-social lives it was their mean environments , made by dirty , anti-social government policies , that made them so . |
| 13 | I think we were lucky to get away with it , and lucky to get a Director like Waris Hussein who managed to create this very strange quality in the cavemen that made them so interesting . ’ |
| 14 | Through his haze , Charles realised that it was n't just the crisis that made them so deferential ; it was the part he was now playing , too . |
| 15 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 16 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 17 | Apparently it was Miles ' fishing that got them up so early . |
| 18 | After all that got them out |
| 19 | Oh I see so it was you that got them together oh |
| 20 | Soon the marching changed to slithering as the patrol hit a scree that propelled them forward as if they were on ball-bearings and they came tumbling headlong to the bottom . |
| 21 | But there were also a lot of people who felt that the presence of er of police in twos and threes , actually inflamed problems in the flats rather than cooled them down . |
| 22 | It was his parents rather than John that helped them financially . |
| 23 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 24 | They suffered the kind of cruel teasing that drew them together , regardless of past differences , into closely knit little groups sharing a common stigma . |
| 25 | She had bright blue eyes that surveyed them warily . |
| 26 | She was not alone any more in feeling oppressed by the strict formality , the strict time-keeping ; after-dinner games were more lively — and she was no longer the only one who wanted to giggle at the sound of the bagpipes that played them out of the dining-room after dinner every night . |
| 27 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 28 | She asked the two men all about driving a steam train , and they showed her the automatic brake , and the little clock faces that told them how much steam the engine was making . |
| 29 | Thirdly , they would need , in some sense , to be rational to have an effective means-ends reasoning that told them how to implement each desired goal . |
| 30 | Well erm if I 'm crystal ball gazing , I would hope that all the women in this country , whatever their colour and whatever their class , would have access to first-class provision for their young children , so that if they wished to work they could actually work in jobs that paid them enough and gave them job satisfaction . |