Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood there beside him , acknowledging the marvellous presence of the terns , and as she did so the thought came to her that striped shirt , and pink tie , and Julia of the leather skirt , presumably passed them by five days a week without knowing that they did so . |
| 2 | They eventually got them off me with baby oil , and almost took my fingers with them . |
| 3 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 4 | In the mud , which the shelling had now turned to a consistency of sticky butter , troops stumbled and fell repeatedly ; cursing in low undertones , as if fearful of being overheard by the enemy who relentlessly pursued them with his shells at every step . |
| 5 | She was a somewhat intense woman who probably rather enjoyed such gatherings , but I 've often wondered if she secretly used them as a ruse to get her husband home to mind the little one while she nipped out for a breather . |
| 6 | And whereas Picasso had been forced to reintroduce clues , small fragments of legibility , into his work to render it more accessible to the spectator , Braque , even at his most abstract , instinctively retained them as a link with reality . |
| 7 | When the registration forms came through , she apparently mistook them for election bumf and threw them away . |
| 8 | He looked at his big , hammy hands , lying loosely on the table and suddenly doubled them into fists . |
| 9 | And it seemed Fergie 's ten man heroes had squeezed out a momentous victory until the soccer fates suddenly stabbed them in the back in the pouring rain of Moscow . |
| 10 | He not only met them off trains , got taxis , and frequently turned up at theatres to see how they were getting on , but would also dip into one of his baskets and present each Girl with a bar of chocolate . |
| 11 | Captaining Jamaica for the second successive season , he not only led them to Red Stripe Cup triumph ( their third in five years ) , but , with the ball , he broke the tournament record with 36 wickets at 11.30 . |
| 12 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 13 | The bills came on the morning of the burial , and he suddenly drew them from his pocket during the service , opening them without knowing what he was doing . |
| 14 | Ribble 's failure to provide the service paid for will have caused inconvenience , and distress to elderly residents of Scorton and perhaps involved them in the extra cost of missed appointments or expensive taxi fares . |
| 15 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 16 | The bishops also argued that any so-called restricted form of divorce was impossible to maintain in practice and that divorce might solve the partners ' problems but only created them for the children . |
| 17 | Most of the 16-year-olds say their fathers have more or less told them to ‘ go out and have a good time ’ . |
| 18 | ( c ) There was an additional reason for considering that there was no infringement of article 52 : the criterion of the owner 's nationality did not prevent nationals of other member states from establishing themselves in the United Kingdom to operate fishing vessels — it only prevented them from doing so under the British flag . |
| 19 | They set out towards the west , taking their direction from the sun , but the density of thorn thickets constantly drove them from their line . |
| 20 | The armed forces apparently believed them to be carrying an order for King Bhumibol Adulyadej to sign dismissing Gen. Sunthorn Kongsompong as Armed Forces Supreme Commander . |
| 21 | When Christina gave the signal , they both body-surfed for a few minutes before tumbling over and over as the strong current literally threw them onto the shore . |
| 22 | Oliver was very surprised to see all this , and greatly admired them for controlling their sadness so well . |
| 23 | Edward Jenner was himself a keen inoculator , but he was impressed by the apparently safer prophylactic effects of the mild natural disease of cowpox ; a zoonosis often caught by milkmaids which apparently protected them from smallpox , as he demonstrated in his paper of 1798 . |
| 24 | He warmly congratulated them on their foresight . |
| 25 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 26 | A route which none the less delivered them to their destinations safely and on time , and proved , on later inquiry , to have avoided an entirely unforeseeable hazard or delay ? |
| 27 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 28 | The early spice traders also encountered the daunting " home " team of defending mariners , the Bugis tribe , who so terrified them with their skill and ferocity that the word " Boogie man " entered our language , and still haunts our dreams . |
| 29 | ‘ Does n't matter , I only brought them as a diversion anyway . |
| 30 | And there was a further link between rogues , masterless men , and the players ; according to some observers the theatres quite literally brought them into association , being the place ‘ for vagrant persons , Masterless men , thieves … contrivers of treason , and other idle and dangerous persons to meet together ’ ( Chambers , Elizabethan Stage , iv . |