Example sentences of "[adv] they [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps they just went to the pub instead . |
| 2 | Just before six o'clock they finally left for the West with Rose 's ma 's warnings ringing in their ears . |
| 3 | I often heard voices arguing , and usually they never argued about their writing . |
| 4 | Two years later they successfully appealed against the ruling in the High Court … and now Mr Gilberthorpe 's been told he 's too late bring the case to court again . |
| 5 | The boys , Paul and Nasey , had never brought their friends home , and now they too worked with their father in the yard . |
| 6 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 7 | Oh I I do n't usually recommend it some people do and find it easier that way I I would rather they just stuck with the the formula for differentiating a product and |
| 8 | Well they just fell behind you know I mean |
| 9 | Well they just gone to , they 're going to Europe . |
| 10 | And it well they certainly seemed to be to do with it at the burying like the the linen |
| 11 | Well I 've switched my office phone over and , well they actually wrote to me , but I 've switched mine over to this er discount , if you do more than a hundred pounds worth a quarter . |
| 12 | ‘ Well they bloody looked like it . ’ |
| 13 | Then they simply waited for you to accuse yourself . |
| 14 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 15 | Then they really went at it , hammer and tongs — so loudly , in fact , that neither of them heard or noticed Dad enter the room . |
| 16 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 17 | At least they never pretended to be pure . |
| 18 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 19 | Ninety six male patients admitted to four surgical wards for elective repair of inguinal hernias under general anaesthesia were interviewed in hospital on the day before surgery and asked to complete two self evaluation questionnaires : a screen for pre-existing anxiety or depressive states using the hospital anxiety and depression scale ( HADS ) , in which patients were asked to score answers based on how they generally felt over the few weeks before admission , and an assessment of their current state of anxiety ( Spielberger STAI-X1 ) . |
| 20 | ASIANS are being asked to recall how they successfully adapted to British life . |
| 21 | Their relations were always cordial and , in his memoirs , Hedilla recounts how they often talked of politics . |
| 22 | ‘ Social democracy ’ scored better than ‘ communism ’ or ‘ liberalism ’ when Poles and Hungarians were asked how they now felt about these ‘ isms ’ in a poll that was organised recently by a French firm , Conseils-Sondages-Analyses and Le Journal des Elections . |
| 23 | Can there be anything more telling about the deviousness of these people than his account of how they actually put on television and interviewed a man who was said to have died while in a prison cell , and that , moreover , they did it with the sole motive of demonstrating that he was alive and in good health . |
| 24 | Thousands of people who have bought one wonder how they ever managed without it . |
| 25 | The same or similar elements could equally exist in unfortified sites , as indeed they probably did in the military vici . |
| 26 | They might yet change their minds and return to England , indeed they soon thought of doing so . |
| 27 | So powerful did the Association feel itself to be that it declined to amalgamate into a nationally representative Shipping Federation which came into being in September 1890 , though it allowed its individual members to join if they wished and developed a working arrangement with it.Indeed the separatism of the Mersey shipowners lasted until 1967 when they eventually merged into a British Shipping Federation , though not under the title " Employers ' Labour Association " . |
| 28 | They 'd known for weeks and stayed by me , anxious when I was out of sight , whining in the daytime when they never used to . |
| 29 | The rebel officers ' paramilitary allies , the Carlists and Falangists , were certainly eager to spill the blood of their left-wing enemies , yet they too thought in terms of days rather than years of actual military conflict . |
| 30 | Leinster have named a team that looks strong on paper , including eight internationals , yet they recently lost to both Munster and Ulster in the Inter-Provincial Championship . |