Example sentences of "[adj] they [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This they eventually did at Messina — another positive augury for the future , perhaps — appointing to the post René Mayer who was , in fact , an associate of Monnet . |
| 2 | In 1985 they both moved to Porter 's house paints division , where Mr Horton is vice-president . |
| 3 | Perhaps Bidault , on a visit to the US , gave the best idea of French intentions when he said that Marshall Aid would make it possible for France ‘ to avoid the abandonment of French positions ’ and even where there were the generous intentions that the US had hoped for , one way or another they always seemed to be frustrated . |
| 4 | During 1990 and 1991 they steadily withdrew from the work of all-union bodies , including the Congress of People 's Deputies and Federation Council , and suspended contributions to the USSR budget . |
| 5 | Oh , I , I can remember when fibreglass curtains first came out we bought some of those terrible things they just went in holes , you know if you touched them too much they just went in holes . |
| 6 | I would far rather say , if I had the seven thousand pounds , say to both my daughters there you are dears , there 's the seven thousand pounds you decide how much of that you want for your wedding what is left over you keep , and it would be interesting to find out how much they then spent on their photographers , and on their cake , and the , the wedding cars etcetera . |
| 7 | Medical men were so unsubtle they usually jumped to conclusions like that . |
| 8 | They wanted the horses most , we saw but three they already had with them , the rest forced to go afoot , and the wagon was welcome , too , they had one , I think , already wounded . |
| 9 | From the comparative opulence of 17-6 they then slipped into penury by conceding 18 unanswered points . |
| 10 | But by 1898 the Chrimes brothers had on their ledgers over 10,000 names of women who had responded to their advertisements and these they then used for blackmail . |
| 11 | All they ever saw of their guide was a faint distant tail-light , and then only rarely , at irregular moments after long periods of doubt when it seemed that they had lost the scent , made the wrong decision at some unmarked junction up in the stormy darkness . |
| 12 | Crabbe asks rhetorically why no-one raised a hand to help Grimes 's workhouse slaves , but comments that all they ever said on hearing of the children 's misery was — Grimes is at his exercise " . |
| 13 | Mm was that all they actually did during those war years there just repairing the aircraft |
| 14 | Their devotion to African and Asian states was surprising in view of their dislike of humidity , and Nicolae 's aversion to mosquitoes , as well as their well-developed sense of superiority to those they still thought of as negroes . |
| 15 | ( c ) Under anti-discriminatory legislation The Sex Discrimination Acts 1976 and 1986 These apply to all partnerships irrespective of the number of partners ( before 1986 they only applied to partnerships with six or more partners ) . |
| 16 | This will mean that some individuals now have a different payment date for Council Tax to that they previously had for Community Charge . |
| 17 | The social workers and foster mothers who have worked with children abused in this way also have much to tell us , as Bea Campbell 's recent Channel 4 film demonstrated : not least that they too lived in fear whilst trying to discover what had happened to the children they were working with . |
| 18 | We were all most impressed with our German hosts and the pride that they obviously had in the town . |
| 19 | At first they never went round The Courts ; the route was always to the outskirts and to where houses had gardens , small or large . |
| 20 | The maternal words ‘ If you do n't study hard , you 'll end up on the check-out counter at Tesco 's ’ had had , if not the intended effect , the result of causing Camille and her friends to look down on shop assistants , bank clerks and bus drivers : for more recondite reasons of their own they also held in contempt estate and travel agents and people who worked in advertising . |
| 21 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 22 | WHEN Fattorini & Sons , of Birmingham , were commissioned to fashion a trophy for a new competition to be run by the Essex Football Association in 1882 they really went to town . |
| 23 | Well even m er my kiddies er not An er Joan so much but the others seven o'clock was the latest they ever went to bed . |
| 24 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |