Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Debating parliamentary reform in the Dail early in 1983 they were complaining of being " almost totally engaged in working for their constituents " , " whistling with exhaustion under the sheer burden of constituency work " . |
| 2 | Early in 1066 they were reluctant to accept Harold Godwinsson as their new king , and he and Bishop Wulfstan II of Worcester had to visit York to conciliate them , whereupon the Northumbrians overcame their reluctance to be associated with southern softness — an attitude not uncommon in the north even today . |
| 3 | Early in 1969 they also repeopled a ghostly London hotel , the Bell , just up the road from the Arts Lab in Drury Lane . |
| 4 | The English discouraged the colony , the Spanish first watched it carefully to see that it showed no sign of succeeding and eventually in 1700 they captured it . |
| 5 | As in 1813 the people looked to us to destroy the Napoleonic terror , so today in 1943 they look to us to destroy the terror of National Socialism . |
| 6 | But common sense may have been more important than learning in perceiving the vulnerability of most castles to — battering-rams and catapults ; for even in 1100 they were , as a rule , primitive structures . |
| 7 | In international relations , in a broader sense of the term , they were beginning to play an increasing part , and one with immense potentialities for the future ; but even in 1914 they had only a secondary role in the thinking of diplomats or foreign offices . |
| 8 | It is only too evident that the scribes considered gentility the only status worth recording , and even in this they were not consistent ; civic dignity was almost invariably ignored . |
| 9 | Even in 1953 they could not raise six entries for the monthly medals and in 1961 there were still only eight regular players . |
| 10 | Of course , their domestic tastes were more grandiose than most contented couples , and Elena played her part in promoting the over-decoration of their apartments in the various palaces they used , and even in those they never visited . |
| 11 | The non-juror bishops were suspended in 1689 ; then in 1691 they were evicted from their dioceses . |
| 12 | Then in 534 they overthrew the kingdom of the Burgundians , and two years later they were ceded the majority of the territory held by the Goths in Provence . |
| 13 | During the war they both worked in the local Heathcoat factory making parts for aeroplanes — he was Chairman ; she was on the factory floor — then in 1946 they began to plant the garden in earnest . |
| 14 | Then in 1947 they threw a bomb at the Red Cross cinema and two days later they attacked the Cairo Haifa train . |
| 15 | Late in 1991 they were completed and returned to Rochester and around the same time the Merlin 266 engine that had been rebuilt in the USA came home and was fitted to the airframe . |
| 16 | However in 1941–2 they were enclosed to match the other streamlined double-deckers , the first car being 249 in August 1941 . |