Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A survey asked 1,245 randomly selected college professors how much they gave to charity each year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | well perhaps they applied to university as well |
| 6 | 16 , we find ‘ So they came with haste , and found both Mary and Joseph and the babe layd in the cratch . |
| 7 | Together they travelled in search of plants , sometimes joined by William Courten , who became Sloane 's lifelong friend . |
| 8 | On the flatter stretches they talked and laughed : where the path rose more steeply they lapsed into silence , each lost in her own thoughts . |
| 9 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His attention settled on the ducks on the lake but whenever he got near they fled in panic to the shore and sheltered under bushes and trees where he could not reach them . |
| 13 | They wove no fancy patterns but , given the ball , straight they sped for goal . |
| 14 | Later they changed to steam power , using the coal which was mined locally . |
| 15 | Very probably they went to bed and woke with the sun . |
| 16 | Philippa was ousted by her uncle , William IV 's younger brother , but in the eyes of her descendants she had been the rightful Countess of Toulouse and periodically they went to war to re-assert that claim . |
| 17 | Now they went into war , they came out of this war the were n't , there was no tip of the glory for them . |
| 18 | Now they went to work on population too . |
| 19 | Inevitably they settled in time into a more leisurely role . |
| 20 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 21 | E eventually they got into parliament . |
| 22 | Mostly they died of shock , particularly the younger ones , so it was a bonus when one recovered . |
| 23 | Overwhelmingly they voted in favour , he said , though he could not quantify the demand . |
| 24 | Well they got to court without a solicitor cos they were n't entitled to Legal Aid , and now you see that 's another thing , they 're both out of work , they were n't entitled to any Legal Aid , so they had to go on their own to court |
| 25 | Presently they erupted like twin explosions to examine Mike Quinn . |
| 26 | Sometimes they met for lunch or a theatre in London , on neutral ground , and both looked forward to these meetings as if they were occasions of almost illicit pleasure . |
| 27 | Sometimes they went to the cinema , sometimes they sat in coffee bars holding hands across the table , sometimes they walked in the park , and on Saturdays they almost always went to the dance . |
| 28 | Then they signed to Virgin and the Mighty Lemon Drops syndrome struck with a vengeance , ensuring that , up until ‘ Every Beat Of The Heart ’ meandered chartwards , policemen would n't even speak to The Railway Children let alone arrest them . |
| 29 | Then they went to bed again and drank and loved two nights away and then they had a party and then they made a giant salad of mushrooms and tomatoes and sweetcorn and ham and avocado and lettuce and hibernated for a week . |
| 30 | A great dark arch appeared , and then they passed into shadow with the sounds of water glooping as echoes in the high tunnel and the light playing along the sides like silk in the wind . |