Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , it was n't so long ago they had the THREE Arvedladze brothers bearing down on them in Dinamo Tbilisi shirts . |
| 2 | Such entertainments by Indians at stations which not so long earlier they had attacked became commonplace . |
| 3 | Of course they would mourn for Renascia and remember all of the good things about it , only just now they had other things to concentrate on . |
| 4 | Ana had been full of her day , saying how Mitch had described England to her , explaining so openly how they had spent their time that Felipe relaxed and became quite gracious to Mitch . |
| 5 | Nothing much doing at the pond , they had set the rods up and were wandering around , looking for frogs and newts , then they returned to their rods ; nothing stirred , so around 10pm they decided to call it a day . |
| 6 | All too easily they feared , a recce might leave traces of the visit which , even if the lone navigator was not captured , could give away the intended landing point for an assault force . |
| 7 | So very reluctantly they took me to the home of a local merchant whose wife 's health had been the reason for their not taking anyone so far . |
| 8 | It was just as well they missed each other . |
| 9 | A little further on they came across a parked Army vehicle around which a number of people were clustered listening to the vehicle 's wireless . |
| 10 | A little further on they had to skirt an area where a gang of workmen were shovelling rubble onto a lorry . |
| 11 | A little further on they caught sight of a rising column of smoke . |
| 12 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 13 | It is remarkable indeed how little understanding we have of warfare in this period ; and we shall never know in detail how medieval kings acquired and held their power unless we can find out more precisely how they recruited their armies and led them . |
| 14 | Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back . |
| 15 | ‘ Everything takes twice as long now they got so much data on the computers . ’ |
| 16 | And that was the poor old man he was just just about away so they sent for the ambulance and took him down to Forfar to They used to call that the poor house , I do n't know what they call it now but it was the poor house in those |
| 17 | POLICE hunting for bombers who killed at least 250 people in Bombay got their biggest break so far yesterday when they found an intact bomb inside a stolen motorbike . |
| 18 | The Weston brothers headed to Margate and then once again they reached the continent at Antwerp , by way of a diversion , later returning to London via the back door at Tilbury . |
| 19 | I know someone who had that done and then later on they had their voice box taken out , cos he had cancer of the throat , ooh , |
| 20 | They were now proceeding up a driveway bordered on each side by shrubs : and then quite suddenly they emerged into an open area . |
| 21 | Then almost instantly they hardened and grew hostile . |
| 22 | But then too late they realized there was only the one power point in the garage and they had n't got enough adaptors to take all the amplifiers and instruments . |
| 23 | Yet so far they had not prayed ; Amanda Fergusson appeared still to be arguing with her father ; while the God she had taken to proclaiming did not sound the kind of God who would lightly forgive the Colonel 's obstinate sinning against the light . |
| 24 | SHEFFIELD EAGLES showed their enterprise again yesterday when they signed two forwards from New Zealand 's recent tour , Francis Leota and Tawere Nikau , writes Paul Fitzpatrick . |
| 25 | RUSSIAN parliamentarians , already routed over their opposition to economic reform , were on the rack again yesterday when they tied themselves in knots over what to call the country . |
| 26 | Yet even then they did not play particularly well . |
| 27 | 1989 : 289–90 ) we acknowledged that these ought to have been an ‘ irresistible combination ’ ; yet too often they failed to deliver their potential because of a lack of linkage between the key elements , particularly between advisory staff , heads , PNP coordinators and class teachers . |
| 28 | And I 've had some conflicting information recently because , not very long ago they did say that any part time hourly paid lecturing in a college would have no effect on pension . |
| 29 | MOURNERS wept uncontrollably yesterday when they learned of the vow ferry victim Catherine Tomlins had made about her brother James who died with her . |