Example sentences of "[adv] they [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 so they just had building built on top of it ,
2 Together they barely had time to take up a position at the far door , seize a loaded gun , drop to one knee , and aim as , with a final heave , the bulging mass of bodies exploded into the room , followed by the living .
3 Nevertheless they also took care to ensure that no one made himself vulnerable , no one put himself at risk by careless speech in public assembly .
4 Nevertheless they still represented items of heavy capital expenditure , and still required a data processing department to be responsible for them .
5 Even when your children grew up they still made demands .
6 That was bad enough but quite often they also took bribes directly from the people .
7 Their sort would n't let on they even knew prostitutes existed .
8 Well they only started tarmacadam in nineteen thirty six .
9 Here they also climbed Raiders of the Lost Zawn , E1 5b , and Stella Artios , VS .
10 Sometimes they even launched expeditions to other continents to aid the Dwarfs and humans .
11 Sometimes they even tried embellishments that improved the tools ' performance .
12 Sometimes they also carried stars because , at night , after one of the cloud towers had gone up , the nomes could sometimes see new stars moving across the sky .
13 Sometimes it worked , sometimes they simply shouted abuse , but his greatest success was when he addressed the Welsh League of Youth Eisteddfod at Aberystwyth in Welsh , having studied the language for just six weeks .
14 Angie recalls how she moved in with David 's mother to comfort her and how they eventually found Haddon Hall , a large Victorian folly in Beckenham , where ultimately she and David lived along with Tony Visconti and his girlfriend Liz .
15 LABOUR backbenchers yesterday called for two Cabinet ministers to explain how they allegedly spent £6,000 of taxpayers ' money on three urgent flights home from France , or repay the money .
16 How they ever found time to get there during Peter Hickton 's intensive rehearsals , he could not imagine .
17 The voters , in other words , had not moved solidly to the right , their position was one of ambivalence ; they had become deeply sceptical about the role of government and yet they still expected government to aid them as they tried to meet the pressing problems of modern life .
18 In a study of 400 of the biggest bank mergers in the 1980s , FMCG Capital Strategies , a New York consultancy , found that four out of five deals failed miserably — to the point where they soon destroyed value for the acquiring bank .
19 The staff of the Red Lion became habituated to Paufer 's arrangements ; accordingly they mistakenly served Johnson the kind of secondary food doled out to drunken Paufer .
20 These butts are pre-dyed , but I was curious as to why they only had colour on one side .
21 This was why they adamantly opposed Lenin 's vision of the Party .
22 But they also retained Tutorial Classes as one of the types of course eligible for grant ; incidentally they also defined terms long familiar to the WEA — ‘ Sessional ’ ( ‘ courses lasting for one educational year comprising not less than twenty meetings ’ ) and ‘ Terminal ’ ( ‘ courses comprising not less than ten meetings ’ ) , to describe other courses .
23 Their only chance of such would be to marry a wealthy man , because as source A also describes , before 1919 no woman was allowed a complete education , and therefore they never achieved positions in highly paid jobs , such as lawyers .
  Next page