Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making the most of a walk-on role at the start of the campaign , Margaret Thatcher made many Tory candidates realise how much they missed her strong presence on the political stage . |
| 2 | Perhaps they resented my own by then ebullient high spirits . |
| 3 | Those lines had appealed to him ; perhaps they matched his own thoughts . |
| 4 | If only they knew what hot lust leads to for a woman . ’ |
| 5 | He added : ‘ If only they knew what old Casey knew . ’ |
| 6 | Henceforth they went their different ways and gradually became friendly rivals in their respective spheres of activity on behalf of deaf people . |
| 7 | So they made their bold little crosses in the register and set off on their adventure . |
| 8 | The children had a bag of homemade bricks , you know , all sawn up different blocks of wood and so they kept themselves amused with that . |
| 9 | erm he did n't think they had any bilingual signs and they did n't have they were n't using their Portakabins so they scrapped them all last year sold them off . |
| 10 | So they left their strong position , and in four great divisions under Douglas himself , Ross , Moray and the Steward , rode down to cross that marsh and to assault the hill . |
| 11 | So they used their superior laser beams mostly to sting and scorch and put surplus scumniks and techs to flight . |
| 12 | So they dissected them all with a fine-tooth comb getting mixed metaphors . |
| 13 | and we will give you a er , two addresses , and so they gave me two addresses and and to reach people at I 've done the job quite well . |
| 14 | So they gave me minute instructions ( enclosed , along with the much-travelled draft , in the foreign-desk-clerk 's handwriting ) about what you should say to them if you can be persuaded to try them again . |
| 15 | Nevertheless they swallowed their wounded pride and did all they could to help if she asked for advice . |
| 16 | Thus they laid themselves open to the jibe that , while demanding ‘ Arms for Spain' , they were indifferent to the defence of Britain . |
| 17 | Thus they completed their great work as an act of confession for the sins of the past . |
| 18 | Thus they maintained their nefarious existence with impunity . |
| 19 | There were a few scares at the death , nothing happened , just they got their first corner after about 90 mins … and after last year … however nothing came of it ( or their second and last corner 3 mins into injury time ) , except one header which Lukic watched wide . |
| 20 | They had lived in proximity for weeks — nay , months — they had shared in the coming of life and the going of death , had suffered and exulted , and finally they offered their shared love as a sacrament , he crying out her name , and she his , in the blessed joy of fulfilment . |
| 21 | No , I think it 's just I think they plan well according er to John yesterday they planned it this way . |
| 22 | Yesterday they boycotted their arranged games for what was a dress rehearsal for a protest later in the week when the council meets to decide its leisure and recreation charges . |
| 23 | When it came to new furnishings , people usually they found it difficult to say why apart from ‘ I got it because I liked it ’ , or ‘ I got it because it was cheap ’ . |
| 24 | Twenty-five minutes later they received their first back-bearing from Darwin , indicating that they were one degree north of track . |
| 25 | Forster said to Elizabeth — for he also was on that cruise and later they ate their hardboiled eggs together , sitting high up in the theatre at Delphi , ‘ on the prompt side ’ . |
| 26 | Once that was underway they started their own brewery in North Ormesby , Middlesbrough . |
| 27 | What they could n't read about , they guessed , and very often they got it wrong . |
| 28 | Often these new boundaries followed a stream or a trackway that already existed , but very often they created their own boundary lanes or meres ( from the Old English word' ( ge ) maere ' , ‘ boundary ’ ) . |
| 29 | The idea is that you 're aware of people around you , but I was particularly sensitive to the vibrations and eventually they drove me mad . ’ |
| 30 | Prayers in Jewtown over , the men would drift out onto the street , each separate group mingling with the others in a leisurely trading of news and gossip before eventually they entered their own homes where breakfast awaited them . |