Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load . |
| 2 | But however much they scrubbed to erase the past , the slate could never be entirely cleansed . |
| 3 | Kate and John liked here idea so much they decided to sell the pelmets in their shop . |
| 4 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 5 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 6 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 7 | Perhaps they 'd had a row or something . |
| 8 | Perhaps they 'd had a little more time . |
| 9 | Perhaps they helped persuade the British to follow a policy which kept them out of almost all the continental wars of the next quarter-century . |
| 10 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 11 | ‘ If only they 'd kept the old Dicky Doyle cover , with a few blank pages inside , it 'd still be going ’ |
| 12 | If only they had seen the correspondence that flowed to party chairmen from ’ Horrified of the Home Counties ’ when some of those Bills hit the deck ; one example was the correspondence from the lighthouse keepers association . |
| 13 | If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations . |
| 14 | Only they seemed to understand the rules ; one of them turned round and stroked Nigel 's knee . |
| 15 | The British , it was agreed by all , on this occasion , were men of justice despite their many other faults , only they did have a habit of making tidy things untidy by over-insistence on bureaucratic process . |
| 16 | By the time the gloom of evening began to settle in they had reached the river Travis had spoken of . |
| 17 | Of course , when one was a child many years ago winter could be an advantage , and if the storm was bad enough they had to close the school , which was wonderful . |
| 18 | Willis ' account , relying upon Marxist interpretation of the data , portrayed the lads as expressing a kind of rebellion , for in doing so they had developed an awareness of their class position . |
| 19 | So they had to abandon the Ferreira Hotel and most of their possessions . |
| 20 | So they had to take the bath completely out |
| 21 | So they had to get a chap that knew his business and I think he was entitled to get extra money . |
| 22 | Erm and it became too much for them because people were working more efficient , and therefore there was a an increase in the productivity level , and so they had to increase the number of foremen and chargehands , which was n't a bad thing because it was always our members that got made up to these respective er positions . |
| 23 | So they proceeded to take the game to Rangers with their elegant style . |
| 24 | So they went found a found a colt in the street , tied it to the door of the houses , there was tying it , some of the by-standers asked them what are you doing , untying that colt . |
| 25 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 26 | so they hoped to have the infra red in by then , yeah |
| 27 | Oh so they 'd made a mistake . |
| 28 | So they decided to split the house in two . ’ |
| 29 | So they decided to build the warehouse themselves — which they managed to do for C$10,000 . |
| 30 | So they decided to build the camp there . |