Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chest seems to be full of mucus , if only they could cough a little deeper they feel they would be able to shift it and get it up . |
| 2 | I mean I 'd much rather they do it if we can influence him enough . |
| 3 | That 's all right they told her , everyone loves a sports car . |
| 4 | So perhaps they have their uses . |
| 5 | And I 'd been to top standard as it was then it was standard seven , and as the er you know now they let when the when they 've somebody in so long they let them walk about and come home and all so That time of day you got to you 'd got to pass examins and exams and such like as that . |
| 6 | They 've been rescuing companies for so long they do it automatically now , I expect . |
| 7 | So anyway they want you know , a washing machine , I said a washing machine . |
| 8 | Many times the chub take slugs so viciously they rip them clean off the hook , and the only thing you can do to improve matters is to thread the line through the full length of the slug with a baiting needle , attach the hook and pull it back so that one end of the slug is lying in the bend of the hook . |
| 9 | Rats ransacked their nests so now they shun us . |
| 10 | This year , as well as his old regulars , the Hoflins , Busacher , and old Anton , the répétiteur from Vienna , he had invited his friends on the theatre committee who had assisted so nobly in quelling the Gesner revolt , and Luiza , Freddi and Alfred , who came nearly every year but not so often they took it for granted . |
| 11 | Long ago they called it Bricgstow , meaning ‘ the bridging place ’ . |
| 12 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 13 | Perhaps then they heated it in an oven , or on a hot griddle ? ) |
| 14 | His commuter companions were impressed by this sudden fame , and Dad told me delightedly how they pointed him out to each other on Platform Two . |
| 15 | You go down there they slap you on the wrist you walk away from it and go and do it again . |
| 16 | That was about twenty years ago almost twenty years ago , so where they buy it now I do n't know . |
| 17 | So why they did it Well why they did it is clear er to make slightly bigger hall , but why they took the risk they did is not so clear . |
| 18 | So evidently they knew who you were . |
| 19 | I want to know why they did it and especially why they did what they did with the head … |
| 20 | So instead they hedge their comments and the end result is the person being appraised still does not know what the organization thinks of them . |
| 21 | They shone so brightly they reminded him of Rebecca Salmon . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't mind lobbyists , I 'd just rather they called themselves by their proper name as they do in Washington , rather than wittering on for hours about relationships with opinion-formers . |
| 23 | But we used to turn it over , not like they push it in front , new stuff in front of old , we never had that , we never did that . |
| 24 | There are a number of different kinds of bomb , some of them known by a variety of colourful synonyms , but in many cases , there is a good deal of argument about exactly how they acquire their shape . |
| 25 | So , I 'll go back to Mum and Dad , will I , and be a good little obedient Bean — baked to a turn , just how they like me ? |
| 26 | Well I 'm not , it 's not sometimes they have they wait for the local officer to come on duty . |
| 27 | But that was not how they saw themselves : by asserting the importance of lineage and kinship , and contrasting it with the ideology of their state , they thought to claim attachment to eternal values of universal worth . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm not where they think I am . |
| 29 | TWO brothers told a court yesterday how they watched their terminally-ill mother ‘ fade away ’ after she was given an injection . |
| 30 | RUSSIAN parliamentarians , already routed over their opposition to economic reform , were on the rack again yesterday when they tied themselves in knots over what to call the country . |