Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [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 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 5 | Romany-born Joe , 38 , had twice told us : ‘ Apparently they 've found the AIDS drug can help cancer victims . |
| 6 | Apparently they use to keep a little thing alive and they took it on the boat coming home |
| 7 | There was a little exhibition called The Nude and basically they 've got a nice little Picture Gallery there with sort of various things in , but they also had some lovely anatomy books beside it and so on , some amazing engravings , you know , entire body structures , skeletal man , muscular man , . |
| 8 | The Inland Revenue does not need to prosecute because they have powers to exert penalties similar to a fine , and basically they want to get the money back . |
| 9 | erm like you we read the first passage and it was kind of what 's what 's all this about if you was n't in the room and you did n't know what was being you have n't got a clue what was going on because it does n't tell you , but the rest of the sections that put down they do give a sort of brief analysis |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 13 | Perhaps they 'd had a row or something . |
| 14 | Perhaps they 'd had a little more time . |
| 15 | Perhaps they 've heard the economic forecast . |
| 16 | Perhaps they 've given an overdose of pain killers , or sleeping tablets to an ailing elderly relative . |
| 17 | Perhaps they 've put the nut back on too tight I mean I know they were fiddling with the back . |
| 18 | Perhaps they expect to get the club services free of charge . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Perhaps they have had an experience of déjà vu which they can not explain by any other means . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ If only they 'd kept the old Dicky Doyle cover , with a few blank pages inside , it 'd still be going ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Only they seemed to understand the rules ; one of them turned round and stroked Nigel 's knee . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Only they have had the chance to view the Earth from this unique vantage point — until now . |
| 28 | But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period |
| 29 | By the time the gloom of evening began to settle in they had reached the river Travis had spoken of . |
| 30 | 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 . |