Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of them became quite well known . |
| 2 | Smaller people pogo faster , at precisely the increments a physicist would predict from the known properties of springs — although keeping them bouncing long enough to prove this was another challenge for Taylor . |
| 3 | This does not necessarily disprove the contention that TNCs exploit women workers in particular in the Third World , though it does modify the thesis to the extent that in some developing countries TNCs do provide some good jobs for women that help them to fulfil relatively freely chosen cultural needs . |
| 4 | Trotting a bait down at the same depth you have seen them turning very often pays off with a fish or two . |
| 5 | The plants that rely on them to do so only open their flowers at night . |
| 6 | They got quite well known down there . |
| 7 | What matters are the collections , and they remain as poorly exhibited as ever . |
| 8 | Early in the eighteenth century they became more firmly subjected to Dzhungaria . |
| 9 | With the profits from their books they made enough finally to buy Old Vicarage Farm , with four others , as an organic co-operative , in 1987 . |
| 10 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 11 | They tend perhaps just to lack that real killer instinct and erm it 's such a great shame because people might laugh and joke looking at the league table , in fact United , since Christmas , have played some very good football indeed . |
| 12 | Children assign distinct meanings to distinct forms , but the distinctions they make early on do not always coincide exactly with the conventional adult ones . |
| 13 | There were crowds of people everywhere but , when they saw Burun 's banner , they moved politely aside to let the party pass . |
| 14 | While it may be bad news for the top two auctioneers it seems to many that Phillips and Bonhams will both benefit , for they appear much more prepared to accept lower value items for their sales . |
| 15 | Now they forget so fast do n't they ? |
| 16 | During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way . |
| 17 | Under de Gaulle they opted almost unanimously to do so . |
| 18 | This family comes from a long line of fishermen … now unable to float their boats in the silted up harbour except at high tide they catch hardly enough to feed themselves . |
| 19 | They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections ; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next . |
| 20 | It was hardly surprising that this was the case , and it did n't stop me from giving interviews , but they seemed so far removed from what we were actually trying to do . |
| 21 | They came forward again to shake hands and sympathise . |
| 22 | ‘ They came very well prepared . |
| 23 | Nigel said ‘ Your place or mine ? ’ when they 'd both duly impressed each other with lies . |
| 24 | They 'd pretty well packed their bags anyway , she said , it 's been raining there every day . ’ |
| 25 | They 'd simply not bothered . |
| 26 | What it was she could n't guess , but his enmity seemed deeper than it should have been , given that they 'd only just met . |
| 27 | They 'd only just pitched camp , but I soon had them on their way . ’ |
| 28 | But it was very difficult for these for young , young couples with the er er men at the front and perhaps they 'd only just got married before the war and it was very hard lines on them . |
| 29 | They 'd apparently already decided to loan me to Carlisle Flint . |
| 30 | They 'd better not go on that thing . |