Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the present article can not answer every question raised by Carse , it will answer this one : ‘ did they [ at the Opéra ] or did they not beat time with a baton throughout the whole opera ? ’ ( p.311 ) . |
| 2 | did they , or did they just like , did they just look at the colour and the shape of it , and the style of it ? |
| 3 | And and was i how did you work it , was it like a certain amount of men per lorry or did they just come in convoy ? |
| 4 | Were the technicians indifferent to what they were recording or did they sometimes become aroused too , and if so , were there rules against them joining in ? |
| 5 | Or had they not known about it ? |
| 6 | Thirdly , they would need , in some sense , to be rational to have an effective means-ends reasoning that told them how to implement each desired goal . |
| 7 | In the Janacek second string quartet Intimate Letters that followed they really cracked the idiom , playing with a perceptive feel for the uniquely arhythmic phrasing that echoes that of the Czech language . |
| 8 | But without denying grounds for concern about the outcast Gaddafi government that sent them here to acquire skills of obvious military value , there are also grounds for concern about the long arm government regulating traffic inside the boundaries of the academic world . |
| 9 | The surge that brought them forward had cut them off . |
| 10 | Nor did they greatly care how he chose to spend his spare time in Vienna . |
| 11 | Politics apart , Mosley and Joyce had little enough in common , nor did they greatly like one another personally . |
| 12 | When The Art Newspaper approached the British Museum they pointed out that they do not possess the Altar of Cybele , nor had they yet received a letter from Ronchey . |
| 13 | It is worth noting that had they not scored those four goals the game would have been drawn . |
| 14 | All that the jury found was that had they not done so they would probably not have survived to be rescued . |
| 15 | Geneticists estimated that had they not selected for mastitis resistance the national incidence would have increased by 1.5% over that period . |
| 16 | So I fell on my knees and asked them not to punish the child any more . |
| 17 | By studying the gospel references to the apocalyptic Jewish figure of the ‘ Son of Man ’ — whom Jesus sometimes appears to identify with himself , but sometimes not — Wrede had come to the conclusions that Jesus had not in fact applied the title to himself ; that after his resurrection the church had come to anticipate his return ; that it had then identified Jesus himself as the coming Son of Man ; and that the impression given in the gospels of a ‘ messianic secret ’ that Jesus in his lifetime conveyed only to his closest disciples , and charged them not to reveal to others until the proper time came , was a mere literary device to support that identification . |
| 18 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 19 | David called Mick Ronson and Woody Woodmansey ( after making ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , they had returned to Hull where they lived ) and invited them back to prepare for the next album , ‘ Hunky Dory ’ . |
| 20 | I was lucky , bought the books , took the treasure home and found they only covered A to M. Nevertheless I found them interesting and still thought they were a bargain . |
| 21 | Bejan greeted the 75 audience members and told them not to hold back — and they did n't , loudly voicing their preferences . |
| 22 | Her lip trembled briefly as Tony hugged her and Maureen kissed her again before they left , but she quickly recovered and told them unsmilingly to give her love to her father and the family . |
| 23 | By the time he had sorted everybody out and told them how to get to Bridlington it was too late for me to use my free pass and I had to pay half fare . |
| 24 | A lot of Scots came this way via the Northern Line from King 's Cross and they were giving their Scottish concert in the concourse when a heavy metal band arrived and told them roughly to move . |
| 25 | For a laugh one night she and the other helpers got the children up at 4 am and told them there had been an eclipse of the sun . |
| 26 | She squinted through the glasses , and adjusted them slightly left . |
| 27 | Perhaps the Indians would have done so if they had been conscious of any pressure of numbers on the land , but North America was not crowded and the Indians assisted the new settlers and showed them how to grow the local crops . |
| 28 | She provided the boys with a thorough grounding in the basic subjects of English and arithmetic , and showed them how to help others less fortunate , with gifts to an Anglican Mission School in Lesotho and the RSPCA . |
| 29 | er , at the back page about nine inch by six wi you , were cut-outs and you cut it out and stuck them together to make a little paper , well , thick paper model . |
| 30 | He averted his eyes for a moment to Aldhelm 's covered face , and raised them again to meet Cadfael 's eyes squarely . |