Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ashleys fully appreciated how much they owed to Sybille and treated her with great respect and kindness ; faux pas , which from other members of staff would have met with icy reproofs , went scarcely noticed . |
| 2 | At the IX Party Congress that year , both Ion Maurer and Alexandru Bârladeanu emphasized in their speeches to the delegates how much they owed to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's inspiration . |
| 3 | A survey asked 1,245 randomly selected college professors how much they gave to charity each year . |
| 4 | Why they moved and for how long they stayed in Charlotte Square , however , is a mystery . |
| 5 | The total supply of money in circulation can not , however , be measured , because although the value of coins struck is known for individual years , there is no satisfactory way of estimating how long they remained in circulation . |
| 6 | Perhaps they suffered from insomnia , because every night , just when everybody was settled in bed , a slow noisy little plane — we called it Pippo — came buzzing around . |
| 7 | Well erm erm had a word with erm who was about oh fourth in line in the erm education hierarchy in those days and erm then spoke to who was the Chief Education Officer and er , I think they were a bit erm , bit apprehensive about employing a blind typist because erm it was something that they had never had any experience of but in the end they thought it was worth a try and er especially after supporting me at the College and erm also perhaps they had in mind that many of the erm employees would be leaving if war broke out and erm , in fact by that time war had probably started |
| 8 | well perhaps they applied to university as well |
| 9 | Perhaps they called for stoups of ale or goblets of Rhenish , or supped on plain fare , my masters . |
| 10 | 16 , we find ‘ So they came with haste , and found both Mary and Joseph and the babe layd in the cratch . |
| 11 | And at time that time er th it was before Coney Street was closed so they went through Coney Street . |
| 12 | So they returned to Khartoum and you stayed in Rhodesia ? |
| 13 | He chose Mary Ann , resigned his commission and together they returned to Sydney in 1814 . |
| 14 | Together they divined for Charlie 's talent . |
| 15 | Together they rode across Hodge Beck and gathered up the flocks to look them over before the onset of winter . |
| 16 | Together they went to bullfights , to watch Chamaco and Ordonez perform , Minton 's interest in this art having been fired by Hemingway 's Death in the Afternoon , by its colourfulness , sense of theatre and by the focus it gives to male idolatry . |
| 17 | Together they travelled in search of plants , sometimes joined by William Courten , who became Sloane 's lifelong friend . |
| 18 | Together they acted as recruiters responsible for bringing together the large numbers of men who constituted the armies of the day . |
| 19 | Leaving the seaside resort behind them , they drove out towards the country and soon they came to Wakefield . |
| 20 | They brought him in after dark to their hearths , and answered his questions as well as they could ; and soon they spoke of Master Harry Talvace , drawing up the image of him slowly out of the well of memory . |
| 21 | On the flatter stretches they talked and laughed : where the path rose more steeply they lapsed into silence , each lost in her own thoughts . |
| 22 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 23 | Finally they arrived at Maggie 's cottage and stopped outside the front door . |
| 24 | Yesterday they drove to Wales to do the Radio One Roadshow . |
| 25 | Yesterday they met at Swindon in the league . |
| 26 | Yesterday they closed at 187p . |
| 27 | This pleasant , open admiration was doing wonders for her self-confidence , and once more they plunged into conversation to the exclusion of all around them . |
| 28 | But the nearest they came to scoring was in the forty third minute ; Neil Keller in the Rayners Lane goal saving brilliantly from a fifteen yard volley from Martin Shepherd . |
| 29 | I mean that 's like they went into Nigel 's and put that erm |
| 30 | Did they have any form of inspection , like they did in factories ? |