Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we were coming down so slowly , and I think we stopped suddenly cos then they walked across the path . |
| 2 | They want to rip all the trees down as well they want to make it a little piazza thing do n't they ? |
| 3 | And so when finally they had invaded the greatest city in the world , they built the portico at Euston to proclaim as a memorial their victory to posterity . |
| 4 | The Inland Revenue keeps no up-to-date list as most people are taxed ‘ at their place of work rather than where they live ’ ( Travers 1986 : 119 ) . |
| 5 | Feedback from peers can be a powerful mirror , showing clients how things are , rather than how they assume they are . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She did not fear the rats ; a certain set of mind would keep them away from her in small furry terror , and as for the police-gangs , she could be awake and away before ever they reached her . |
| 9 | He started to walk backwards as together they advanced until he fell over a precipice , the hound at his throat . |
| 10 | More than once they had thoughtlessly consumed the ingredients of his dinner … |
| 11 | More than once they saw a passer-by , soaking wet , shout threats and curses at an open window . |
| 12 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 13 | She had a sudden desperate longing to relive last night — at least , the part up until when they had said goodnight . |
| 14 | Up until today they have been winning praise for the quality of their football but everything seemed to go wrong this afternoon . |
| 15 | If this really does happen it would be a remarkable situation because up until now they 've been let out in dribs and drabs , they 're talking here about a kind of mass release are n't they ? |
| 16 | For example , somebody might erm be homeless , but no hostel in town will take them on because perhaps they have a mental illness or a drug problem , or perhaps they are in trouble with the courts erm we can return to that hostel with the person saying ‘ Do n't worry about these other problems , just fill in the bits you can , the accommodation , and we 'll sort out the other bits ’ . |
| 17 | Food is scarce and more often than not they go hungry . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | New houses may be built , but more often than not they compromise the setting of the house without generating funds to restore it . |
| 22 | At times the boundaries between these modes of address are exclusive , yet more often than not they shift to accommodate varying needs . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Do watch out cos sometimes they put silly spellings on which does n't help . |
| 25 | And er anyway we eventually er ah but er the questions used to asked at every meeting , when are we going to come out and er so much so that er they made the secretary who was a J P and a Tory write to the T U C and er say that we prepared to come out when ever they ask us . |
| 26 | and as often as not they win the race , |
| 27 | These principles play a central role in how children make use of terms in the conventional lexicon , as well as when they go beyond those to coin new words . |
| 28 | There is no one right way to behave , but it is clear that teenagers suffer when parents overprotect , as well as when they leave them to their own devices and appear not to care . |
| 29 | It changed how people lived as well as how they thought : a sort of secular church , so to speak , and like many churches a hotbed of internecine sects . |
| 30 | Oh she 's , but she 's gone nice , I must admit , cos I always did like her , even though like they use to say she was spoilt and that , well , you ca n't help it |