Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players . |
| 2 | Suddenly they heard Mary calling for Billy in a shrill excited voice . |
| 3 | Suddenly they saw Angel Clare approaching . |
| 4 | One does n't know how much they feared death , but it did n't come out , at any rate in their painting or sculpture . |
| 5 | To anyone who did n't live in Birmingham at the time , it 's impossible to convey how much they affected people . |
| 6 | So you can see how much they needed Malc 's stabilising influence . |
| 7 | Apparently they had road blocks and patrols on roads all over the area , and they searched the grounds of the house . |
| 8 | ‘ Apparently they made holovids about us , ’ she laughed . |
| 9 | Apparently they found cocaine hidden in his mattress . ’ |
| 10 | Apparently they regarded Churchill as a poor security risk . |
| 11 | The style of the earliest red-figure does not differ from that of black-figure , and for long they flourished side by side ; but the new technique was to prove better suited than the old to new ideas of drawing and composition that developed as part of the general late sixth-century movement which undermined the conventions of archaic art . |
| 12 | Before long they found Suzy 's white Ford Fiesta company car abandoned a mile from the house . |
| 13 | Perhaps they felt pity and affection for the animals moving through a world by which they were doomed to be destroyed . |
| 14 | Perhaps they thought Anne and Emily and Branwell were coming home too — I do n't know . |
| 15 | Archosaurs , the forerunners of dinosaurs , also probably lost heat through their surface skin , or perhaps they had air sacs beneath the skin to effect further cooling , and which also may have made them lighter on their feet . |
| 16 | There was , of course , a diversity of tenures — so much so that it can never be assumed that the customs of any two manors were identical , or even similar , unless perhaps they formed part of the same feudal honour , for example the barony of Lewes in Sussex , which had evolved a set of common customs . |
| 17 | Perhaps they believed Iona was a shortcut to Heaven ? |
| 18 | The la funny enough they had Gasgcoigne and the picture was so poor it looked people put things like oh you know er Edna Everage things like that and he ju , he looked like |
| 19 | This massive forced deportation concluded Charles ' conquest of Saxony , for as a chronicler records ‘ henceforth they abandoned worship of evil spirits , and gave up the wicked customs of their forefathers , received the sacrament of Christian baptism , mingling with the Franks until at last they were reckoned as one race … ’ |
| 20 | so they wasted time by changing the guard , and I had all the time in the world to destroy the documents . |
| 21 | So they spent hours painting brassières onto the nude photographs before sending the souvenir programme home . |
| 22 | So they kicked Nino 's car and caused £600 damage . |
| 23 | Even so they caused Baldwin no particular concern , despite a half-warning from Anthony Eden , who was then a second Cabinet minister in the Foreign Office . |
| 24 | So they took bits of Green away then ? |
| 25 | The voltage on the power panel which the Object Management Group has planned for its Object World expo later this month just went up a few notches : Lotus ' John Landry could n't make it so they got Sun 's Bill Joy as a substitute . |
| 26 | So they ate bread together while he read the paper . |
| 27 | So they became friends , after a fashion . |
| 28 | So they gave excuses of shortage of time or involvement in other activities to explain why they did not register for the rural party cell . |
| 29 | We have surveyed 176 companies who hold regular conferences in order to find out how highly they rated leisure facilities in deciding on their choice of venue . |
| 30 | When he was murdered during the Wars of the Roses only the choir had been built ; later the ante-chapel was added and together they formed College Chapel . |