Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked at Arkhina , and suddenly they clung to one another and laughed . |
| 2 | But suddenly they looked like two strangers . |
| 3 | I felt the tears welling up in my eyes and suddenly they spilled over the sides and dripped down my cheeks . |
| 4 | They were now proceeding up a driveway bordered on each side by shrubs : and then quite suddenly they emerged into an open area . |
| 5 | Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain , ripped free from their mountings and crashed to the ground . |
| 6 | At the IX Party Congress that year , both Ion Maurer and Alexandru Bârladeanu emphasized in their speeches to the delegates how much they owed to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's inspiration . |
| 7 | How far they were supreme in any new and unprecedented sense , whether their advance can be termed revolutionary , how much they owed to the innovatory genius of Thomas Cromwell are questions still open to dispute . |
| 8 | The Ashleys fully appreciated how much they owed to Sybille and treated her with great respect and kindness ; faux pas , which from other members of staff would have met with icy reproofs , went scarcely noticed . |
| 9 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 10 | In one key experiment , for example , we trained over a hundred birds , measuring their imprinting preference score and motor activity ( that is , how much they ran in the wheels ) as well as RNA synthesis . |
| 11 | Nobody knew how much they burrowed into one 's past , and this ignorance coupled with a fear of being rejected by the Legion was enough to make most people tell the truth . |
| 12 | Not being musically inclined , I had no idea how much they meant to him , and I 've subsequently spent about 3 weeks in the dog house . |
| 13 | Charles Davenant observed in 1710 , " what near Resemblance there was between the Old Rumper , and the Modern Whig ( for a Child will be like his true Father ) and how much they agreed in their Insolence to the Throne , Notions in Religion , Principles as to Government " . |
| 14 | The whole ritual took most of them half an hour though there were always a few that gossiped so much they had to be nagged by their Head Girl . |
| 15 | She went back into the lounge and sat with Fritz , finding out how remarkably much they had in common , until they were joined by Rosa and other friends and spent two magical hours until , at 10.00 , she stood up . |
| 16 | Additionally , many single people admit that they had not realised before how much they relied on their job for companionship and sometimes , even for part of their week-end social life . |
| 17 | ‘ Doc was a bully with the players , he treated them like dirt , ’ claimed Crerand adding that several players disliked him so much they threatened to ‘ do ’ him . |
| 18 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 19 | Yet , when they were asked how they felt about their sister , each one of them paid tribute to her gentleness and femininity and said how much they cared for her . |
| 20 | A survey asked 1,245 randomly selected college professors how much they gave to charity each year . |
| 21 | Apparently they went through a very hard time recently . |
| 22 | They had nothing to drink , nothing to eat , they kind of hibernated and apparently they lapsed into a state of , of a kind of hibernation and inactivity , but they were still alive and they were alive when they , when they were pulled out fourteen days later . |
| 23 | Deeper and deeper they went into the dark hole . |
| 24 | For how long they operated in the Coniston Fells is not known . |
| 25 | She was n't sure how long they stared into one another 's eyes . |
| 26 | She had no idea how long they waited like that , with Mary O'Dell wiping the sweat from her face with a cool washcloth , speaking gently in her soft Irish singsong as if Ruth were a child , for by now her memories had blurred together ; faces swam into focus through waves of pain , then disappeared . |
| 27 | After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her . |
| 28 | After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her . |
| 29 | Why they moved and for how long they stayed in Charlotte Square , however , is a mystery . |
| 30 | The total supply of money in circulation can not , however , be measured , because although the value of coins struck is known for individual years , there is no satisfactory way of estimating how long they remained in circulation . |