Example sentences of "[vb past] they [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molassi led them silently onwards and downwards . |
| 2 | What I think would be nice is if , if one or two people from each group came and laid claim to some of these things and we went through them and we sort of read them out loud because it 's a bit hard to read there , and we 'll see what Bob 's view is on this and . |
| 3 | Both men and women lowered their chances of developing cataracts when they stopped smoking , but still got them more often than non-smokers . |
| 4 | The studio was shaded with heavy blue curtains and as he drew them back so that she could see to read more easily , a shaft of sunlight struck across her hair . |
| 5 | He found them quickly enough and returned to the pub . |
| 6 | It was then that Fat Watt regarded them most sullenly as though their nearness was a threat . |
| 7 | Albrecht Dürer designed them as early as 1500 or before . |
| 8 | Father Kleinsorge told them as cheerfully as he could , ‘ There 's a doctor at the entrance to the park . |
| 9 | Put on my mettle , I told them as simply as I could of how Tony , Poll and Doreen had made their ‘ Feast ’ , burying their doll ( I substituted doll for scouter ) and covering the mound with flowers ; and how , at the end , as a simple token of courtesy or affection , Tony had presented his penis for Doreen 's pleasure . |
| 10 | So I rang the hospital and told them very calmly that we 'd be arriving shortly , then I woke up Tony and — thinking I had loads of time — ran a bath . ’ |
| 11 | They would be drawn into the system which mulcted them and bullied them more completely than ever . |
| 12 | Ben Weatherstaff , now in the secret , joined them as often as he could . |
| 13 | ‘ It just seemed too much of a gamble , ’ he explained , and in fact the 22-year-old left-hander turned them down once before temptation overcame him . |
| 14 | Fenella felt ridiculous tears sting her eyes and brushed them away impatiently because this was no time to be emotional . |
| 15 | A great deal of my audience enjoyed them immensely even though they 'd never heard them before . |
| 16 | United manager Alex Ferguson said : ‘ We quietened them quite well and we played excellent football . |
| 17 | Cursing under his breath , and still keeping his face averted from Huy , the man threw a handful of small silver bars in front of the fat woman , who scooped them up almost before they had settled on the surface of the table . |
| 18 | Thérèse enclosed them once more and held on . |
| 19 | Erm that again had been rolled into balls and then he 'd have erm about a dozen sticks which which held these balls and stuck them in then after he 'd he 'd erm er thatched one erm length , one row , he 'd pull the string over and attach it to the the thick s er rope that was er going over the stack . |
| 20 | Well I rang them up yesterday because I got two cheques left . |
| 21 | ‘ I brought them over yesterday and George let me have a couple of boxes for the night but I do n't want to leave them over another night if I can help it . |
| 22 | I brought them down here but there is n't anywhere to put them . |
| 23 | Brought them down here and then gone off along the cliff path with them . |
| 24 | So they brought them down here and they had fifty cases of oranges in here . |
| 25 | in the second half Wimbledon threatened to run away with it but Judge saw them off more than once and then United came good again with a late charge … |
| 26 | As they neared fulfilment , he rolled them slowly sideways until his body was covering hers . |
| 27 | In fact , in her continuing ‘ effort to be objective ’ , O'Keeffe based more and more of her imagery on observable forms in nature , and she represented them as exactly and precisely as she could . |
| 28 | She blinked them back hurriedly and forced herself to look across at Josey . |
| 29 | She took them off again when she remembered that it would be she who would have to Ronuk it again if Matey saw its shine marred . |
| 30 | Once they had cooled completely we took them out carefully so we did n't disturb the curls too much . |