Example sentences of "[vb past] they [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason why our homes were so cold was that the people who designed them never took our severe winter climate into consideration . |
| 2 | Clearly , for those who found they actually did suffer from smelly clothes — evidently a lot of people — the ads struck an immediate and powerful chord . |
| 3 | I was lucky , bought the books , took the treasure home and found they only covered A to M. Nevertheless I found them interesting and still thought they were a bargain . |
| 4 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
| 5 | For a laugh one night she and the other helpers got the children up at 4 am and told them there had been an eclipse of the sun . |
| 6 | By the end of the war this culture had been defeated , and the victorious Puritans and their nonconformist allies who had gained control of the reins of central government believed they now had an opportunity to impose on the whole nation the same moral reforms that prior to 1640 they had struggled to instigate piecemeal at a local level . |
| 7 | Twenty million of them dispossessed , twenty million told they now lived in a foreign country and they could never be Germans again , for ever more . |
| 8 | A study of the skulls of both types showed they probably possessed mammal-like muscular cheeks , and the teeth fossils show they ground grain-like food . |
| 9 | He had shared a drink with barmaid Louise Shipman , who then claimed they also had sex at a Leicester hotel . |
| 10 | Labour claimed they already had ‘ very good evidence ’ that this was about to happen . |
| 11 | But he said he reckoned they probably shot a bit wide , and anyway the officers would see that they tried , and it was better to be shot by the other side rather than your own . |
| 12 | Than when the ambulance men arrived they also tried to revive it . |
| 13 | When the police arrived they automatically arrested the Dickens brothers because they were black . |
| 14 | As the show opened they even enjoyed a beer with the first day crowds . |
| 15 | A recent survey by Datamation and Cowen & Co showed increases in the percentage of both technical and commercial users who indicated they definitely planned to buy an RS/6000 in the next 18 months . |
| 16 | In the Janacek second string quartet Intimate Letters that followed they really cracked the idiom , playing with a perceptive feel for the uniquely arhythmic phrasing that echoes that of the Czech language . |
| 17 | He could have done with something , fish and chips even , but the place was so goddamn countrified they probably did n't rise to things like that . |
| 18 | Some found their new hats too small , others discovered they completely covered their eyes and they were unable to watch the match ! |
| 19 | The friend who watched them together recalled : ‘ Camilla was not what one would call a truly beautiful woman . |
| 20 | But he decided they probably had enough on their minds for the moment ; and swiftly tossing back the Glenlivet , he left them , making his way thoughtfully to the front entrance , and wondering something else : wondering whether any announcement of Kemp 's death — Kemp 's murder — would have come as too much of a surprise to one of the four people who still sat round their table in the Chapters Bar . |
| 21 | The bats just decided to smash me around the island , and for every bag of boundaries they hit they then made a mistake . |
| 22 | After the parents met they eventually emigrated to Australia , and were married there in 1983 . |
| 23 | A lot of parents were refusing to sign she said , ‘ because they admitted they just did not understand the new selection procedure . |
| 24 | They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year , although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers . |
| 25 | They have reached the first round for the fifth successive year , although once admitted they initially quailed like nervous party-goers . |
| 26 | And although 75 per cent of them thought 16 was the right time to start having sex , girls admitted they still made the mistake , often with drastic consequences , of saying Yes when they really meant No . |
| 27 | The surge that brought them forward had cut them off . |
| 28 | ‘ A friend who saw them there said their behaviour was blatant . ’ |
| 29 | That may be so , but when I first knew them there had been radical changes . |
| 30 | Accepting the only logical course of action the robots had shut down the machine , even though it meant they too sank into inertia as a consequence . |