Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the beak could hold no more , they disappeared into the depths of a thicket where presumably they had a well-hidden nest of young . |
| 2 | It all comes down to practical implementation of flexible working hours and job sharing , so that women working in the nursing profession do not have to follow male patterns of employment , where eventually they find that combining family responsibility with work is simply too difficult , and they leave . |
| 3 | You have to develop that relationship because they can take advantage of you when ever and where ever they want . ’ |
| 4 | Even so , quick set hedges were planted on either side of these roads to fence them in , where formerly they had wandered at large . |
| 5 | Pigs had to be kept near to the farmstead , probably in nearby closes , but they could be taken to wastes and pasture and , of course , woodland , where traditionally they ate acorns and beechmast . |
| 6 | At about the same time as the State Department was receiving this cable from their most senior man on the spot , Secretary of State Byrnes was cabling the Paris embassy that the French were planning to reconquer Tonkin and might set up a puppet government ; while in Hanoi the French commander , General Morlière , was claiming that the US and Chinese consuls had denounced the ‘ criminal and bestial folly ’ of the Vietminh ; although apparently they had n't said a word one way or the other . |
| 7 | I think that the issue really is erm are there ways in which perhaps they could be helped to do this more productively , and are there ways in which they could be helped to do this rather more collaboratively than perhaps they have done so in the past ? |
| 8 | Although together they made up only 8% of referrals in the year before the guidelines the reduction in barium investigation and excretion urography contributed 25% of the savings achieved in the second year . |
| 9 | And er and with the wind sometimes the ball 's al that ball 's always running away from you and the way goalkeepers play now they tend to come out very quickly and more times than enough they get there first . |
| 10 | ‘ Indian restaurants are always contacting us to say that they 've had celebrities in , and more often than not they turn out to be MPs . ’ |
| 11 | More often than not they turn out to be admirers well versed in her background , and she finds herself answering the sort of urgent questions that ‘ normal people ’ ask when they are introduced to her : how is she settling to her new life ? ; does she miss Low Birk Hatt and her beasts ? ; is she taking care of herself ? ; and so on . |
| 12 | If soldiers could find a defender from outside their number ( as they did in the poet Thomas Hoccleve , who pleaded that greater respect be paid to their economic predicament in old age ) , more often than not they suffered from the verbal and literary lash of preachers , moralists and other writers . |
| 13 | Food is scarce and more often than not they go hungry . |
| 14 | Sometimes these losses do not amount to anything important but more often than not they include the loss of some article of sentimental value which creates a strong emotional response . |
| 15 | At times the boundaries between these modes of address are exclusive , yet more often than not they shift to accommodate varying needs . |
| 16 | New houses may be built , but more often than not they compromise the setting of the house without generating funds to restore it . |
| 17 | Girls have got on through sleeping with a director , although usually they gain little more than temporary advantage . |
| 18 | More than once they saw a passer-by , soaking wet , shout threats and curses at an open window . |
| 19 | More than once they had thoughtlessly consumed the ingredients of his dinner … |
| 20 | Contrary to the all too common belief that ageing is essentially an unavoidable process of retreat , of withdrawal into passivity and dependence , the truth is that for most men and women later life is a time of active challenge : a time when perhaps more than ever they need to be able to respond imaginatively to change . |
| 21 | It is not just cost that has made the DIY holiday so popular , although traditionally they have been the break for those on a tight budget . |
| 22 | But even they will blench if a marble statue waves at them , for you would have to live dealions of years longer than even they do to see a miracle of this magnitude . |
| 23 | The Royalists ( Chetniks ) under Mihailovitch had played a major part in anti-German resistance through much of the war , although increasingly they had been in direct conflict with Tito 's partisans , who saw them as the main enemy in establishing a Communist post-war Yugoslavia , and this had also led to them acting on occasion in concert with German forces . |
| 24 | The involvement of approved social workers ( ASWs ) in the assessment process was associated with diversion of many of the women away from compulsory admission , although even they appeared affected by patriarchal assumptions . |
| 25 | There were relatively fewer pure gangster films after 1933 but there were a large number of social or ‘ social-problem ’ films although even they remained as only a small percentage of the total Hollywood package . |
| 26 | Although nowadays they rely on less traditional forms of communication . |
| 27 | They appear to be quite randomly arranged on the distal portion of the jaw although sometimes they appear to cluster in the region of the second oral tentacle pore . |
| 28 | They 're ideologically sound , although sometimes they do n't look it , know what I mean ? |
| 29 | ‘ They both love sport and have no time for show business — except sometimes they like to come and hear me sing . |
| 30 | Feedback from peers can be a powerful mirror , showing clients how things are , rather than how they assume they are . |