Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The belt tying the skirt on drew the bodice edges in round the breasts ( if they were to be exposed ) and presumably lent them some support from the sides and from below . |
| 2 | A related question is whether each processor should execute its own programme , or if instructions from one programme should be broadcast to all processors , thereby allowing them all to execute the same programme with different data . |
| 3 | The noise of a lock operating somewhere made them both look along the companionway . |
| 4 | He eventually shared them all out . |
| 5 | While this may have appeared to solve the monarchy 's immediate problems , in the long run it only made them worse . |
| 6 | You did n't run — that only made them eager for the chase . |
| 7 | But , but the other thing about giving them a standardised test at the re , when when they first arrived with us , is when you get the parent who comes and says well how they were level five in the primary school and you 've only given them level four ? |
| 8 | ‘ It 'll only make them arrogant . ’ |
| 9 | It 'll only make them worse . ’ |
| 10 | The introduction of higher fees in 1956 did not solve the District 's financial problems , only make them manageable . |
| 11 | The arrival of the French colonizers a few decades later had merely given them another chance to demonstrate their indomitable spirit . |
| 12 | This news , needless to say , greatly concerned them all , Douglas and the Regent in especial . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , Japanese companies seem as willing to sell technology , or collaborate on its development , as any other firms , when doing so offers them some advantage . |
| 14 | Three o'clock found them ready and waiting , arrayed in their most festive attire . |
| 15 | The two companies broke off negotiations in December only to restart them two weeks ago . |
| 16 | He now realized with astonishment that there was apparently a part of the warren underground which was big enough to contain them all together . |
| 17 | In both Alcoa and United Shoe the courts acknowledged that the defendants had built their market shares by legal means , but none the less found them guilty because their respective dominant positions were due to conscious choice . |
| 18 | ‘ I only charged them fifty pence so we wo n't get rich on that , but it 's probably done our reputation a lot of good . ’ |
| 19 | And I 'd only done them ten minutes before |
| 20 | ‘ The men were going to see some action , or ‘ have some fun ’ as they put it , and that was quite enough to render them light-hearted and care-free . ’ |
| 21 | so they did n't , it only cost them thirty quid for carpet |
| 22 | So a little bit of discipline and a clip round the earhole obviously done them good . |
| 23 | How can you , when you 've only met them five minutes ago ? |
| 24 | You know , but i if we could n't , if they we as they said , if they wanted that money back tomorrow we could only give them half that money back because of what we 've got |
| 25 | And what good value it was , it was only costing them hundred and |
| 26 | The author of this memoir , while an undergraduate , once borrowed fourteen books about history from Edward Wynn and , on the way to return them , inadvertently dropped them all into the River Pem — and so is better placed than anyone to testify how good a man was Edward Wynn . |
| 27 | We 'll refer to these as hostiles , to distinguish 'em from the ordinary members , who all wear them fancy coloured robes an' do n't present any threat at all . |
| 28 | Give that to Robert , that 's for Donna so give them both to Robert but the adventure game 's for Donna . |
| 29 | See say you do n't gon na gallop five fur you did n't gallop five furlongs , well , they might think you 're gon na finish five , you only galloped 'em four . |
| 30 | I had known Willie since childhood days at Nairn , Geoffrey I had come to know later ; and while I greatly admired them both , and still do , I found this closing of establishment ranks deeply shocking . |