Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] they [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of Germany 's railways were established between 1848 and 1877 , but even then they served the west of Germany far better than they served the east . |
| 2 | and he treated his horse well I mean a lot of these horseman , good horseman treated the horse better than they did the wife ! |
| 3 | No sooner had they sat down than they heard the distant ring of the telephone . |
| 4 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 5 | There are no Sunday newspaper features , no Evening Standard sketches , no Def II interest because we need to label things only if they challenge the status quo . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the car needs repairsing and the garage says they 'll waive the five hundred pound storage bill but only if they get the job . |
| 7 | Although judges were appointed by the authorities at the remaining levels ( circuit courts , judicial tribunals , and the Senate , which acted as a court of appeal ) , they could be dismissed only if they broke the law themselves . |
| 8 | A directorate and management will succeed only if they have the trust of those with whom they work — the need to develop a common involvement is important . |
| 9 | At the time of signing , ratifying or acceding to this Protocol a State may declare that it will process the Letters rogatory to which this article applies only if they identify the relationship between the evidence or information requested and the pending proceeding . |
| 10 | Any family could join in provided they had the money and were not Jewish — racism thrived tolerably well in meritocratic suburbia where Jews sometimes had to form their own clubs . |
| 11 | ‘ It 'll be safe enough if they sandbag the whole of the promenade , though , wo n't it ? ’ |
| 12 | Like the practice of pledging , summoning conventions of delegates to deliberate on public policy , especially if they questioned the legitimacy of political institutions , had a radical pedigree . |
| 13 | However , such smokers may incur the same risks and may even increase them , especially if they inhale the pipe or cigar smoke [ 9 ] . |
| 14 | I have to say though first of all especially if they have the larger version |
| 15 | A row of well-designed awnings can transform a building , especially if they incorporate the hotel 's or restaurant 's logo using the same colour schemes . |
| 16 | Families also need support , she said , especially if they trusted the paedophile and felt responsible for allowing the abuse to occur . |
| 17 | They pack tightly together until they cover the stone as closely as tiles on a roof . |
| 18 | They walked down the path together until they reached the shores of the loch . |
| 19 | This is obviously easier if you are fishing with a few friends who are prepared to let you move in if they locate the fish first . |
| 20 | On the other hand , outsiders could be welcomed in if they acknowledged the basic rules : a Viking recruit could " swear fidelity in his own fashion " or , better still , accept Christian baptism . |
| 21 | It sounded well enough until they saw the size of the rations . |
| 22 | Well they put those in anyway , so unless they found the original ones , |
| 23 | However , the four Basque deputies elected in October for United People ( HB ) had still not taken up their seats , and the Constitutional Court confirmed in a ruling on March 29 that they would not be permitted to do so unless they swore the conventional oath of allegiance to the Constitution [ see p. 37135 ] . |
| 24 | Some people who need extra care and can afford the cost actually choose it , perhaps because they understand the advantages of releasing a daughter and other family members from the 24-hour responsibility of caring . |
| 25 | Alternatively speculators might think that the exchange value of the domestic currency will fall even further in the future , perhaps because they expect the current account deficit to become permanent , and so capital inflows will decrease and capital outflows decrease accordingly . |
| 26 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 27 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 28 | Oligopolists refraining from price competition merely because they recognize the likelihood of rival retaliation do not violate the law as long as their decisions are taken independently . |
| 29 | Krashen 's ( 1981 ) views are particularly relevant to the study of BSL , not only because they lay the base for a fundamental re-examination of teaching methods ( see appendix 2 ) but because they allow us to understand more clearly the language learning problems of BSL acquirers . |
| 30 | The Junkers tolerated the troublesome middle classes only because they guaranteed the Junkers their place in German society ; the middle classes looked up to the Junker traditional leadership , and regarded them as the German image of itself . |