Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | An expert in the field could be expected not only to classify them correctly but would also know what to do about them . |
| 2 | They might have fared more comfortably had they sailed a longer journey — from Kingsburgh up to Waternish point , a journey which would then have taken them directly down into Loch Dunvegan — although local people told me the weather here can come up very quickly , and perhaps Allan Macdonald 's boat was not adequately large . |
| 3 | I cou , I would of said well right tell them |
| 4 | But not for the Americans , nor the British who were not bombed heavily enough to prevent them from turning the experience into a basis for a cosy national myth . |
| 5 | The informal interview can not generally be used to test hypotheses very accurately , but it can be used most fruitfully to clarify them and to elaborate them . |
| 6 | Luckily for them they had been fed and wormed regularly but no one had got near enough to handle them or consequently to put a halter on them . |
| 7 | It seems unlikely that a Tibetan would have got up there to take them , but then it could be argued that it 's equally unlikely that a yeti was the culprit . |
| 8 | Well that was a waste of their time if they 'd have gone round there to view them , were n't it ? |
| 9 | Women who were knocked down later said they were punched and kicked by gardai . |
| 10 | They were the Test Match addicts , very small babies , icecream van drivers or , as in our house , parents with toddlers who WO N'T stay put long enough to let them catch breath , let alone get a tan ! |
| 11 | Neatly , for a writer whose work is characterised by the comic accomodations of the half-believer , the terms in which Lodge 's defence is couched once again join them to beat them . |
| 12 | You know , it was all fenced they had n't lived there long had they ? |
| 13 | They are chained separately only to keep them clear of each other . |