Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they collected so much they had to use a milk float to deliver the load . |
| 2 | But however much they scrubbed to erase the past , the slate could never be entirely cleansed . |
| 3 | Kate and John liked here idea so much they decided to sell the pelmets in their shop . |
| 4 | She said now apparently they 've got a horse somewhere round here and she said when she came back there was this car about half hour later after they 'd left here a car been broken into . |
| 5 | Romany-born Joe , 38 , had twice told us : ‘ Apparently they 've found the AIDS drug can help cancer victims . |
| 6 | Apparently they use to keep a little thing alive and they took it on the boat coming home |
| 7 | There was a little exhibition called The Nude and basically they 've got a nice little Picture Gallery there with sort of various things in , but they also had some lovely anatomy books beside it and so on , some amazing engravings , you know , entire body structures , skeletal man , muscular man , . |
| 8 | The Inland Revenue does not need to prosecute because they have powers to exert penalties similar to a fine , and basically they want to get the money back . |
| 9 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 10 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 11 | Perhaps they had spent a year abroad after they left school , Benny thought wistfully . |
| 12 | Perhaps they 'd had a row or something . |
| 13 | Perhaps they 'd had a little more time . |
| 14 | Perhaps they 've heard the economic forecast . |
| 15 | Perhaps they 've given an overdose of pain killers , or sleeping tablets to an ailing elderly relative . |
| 16 | Perhaps they 've put the nut back on too tight I mean I know they were fiddling with the back . |
| 17 | Perhaps they expect to get the club services free of charge . |
| 18 | Perhaps they helped persuade the British to follow a policy which kept them out of almost all the continental wars of the next quarter-century . |
| 19 | Perhaps they have had an experience of déjà vu which they can not explain by any other means . |
| 20 | When parents or social workers went up to see us , obviously they had to see the staff , and the woman in charge was so nice , she had this big front — ‘ My girls , my girls ’ — it was totally a load of shit . |
| 21 | ‘ If only they 'd kept the old Dicky Doyle cover , with a few blank pages inside , it 'd still be going ’ |
| 22 | If only they had seen the correspondence that flowed to party chairmen from ’ Horrified of the Home Counties ’ when some of those Bills hit the deck ; one example was the correspondence from the lighthouse keepers association . |
| 23 | If only they had had the sense to invest in cleaning up our power stations , as the Germans have done , we would not watch electricity industry representatives and Ministers rushing around trying to find cheap fixes to meet their European obligations . |
| 24 | Only they seemed to understand the rules ; one of them turned round and stroked Nigel 's knee . |
| 25 | The British , it was agreed by all , on this occasion , were men of justice despite their many other faults , only they did have a habit of making tidy things untidy by over-insistence on bureaucratic process . |
| 26 | Only they have had the chance to view the Earth from this unique vantage point — until now . |
| 27 | Of course , when one was a child many years ago winter could be an advantage , and if the storm was bad enough they had to close the school , which was wonderful . |
| 28 | Willis ' account , relying upon Marxist interpretation of the data , portrayed the lads as expressing a kind of rebellion , for in doing so they had developed an awareness of their class position . |
| 29 | So they had to abandon the Ferreira Hotel and most of their possessions . |
| 30 | So they had to take the bath completely out |