Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
| 2 | Indeed , the business of turning some of the Act 's most central provisions into the regulations needed to implement them has proved so exceedingly complex that some crucial regulations , more than six years later , are still in draft . |
| 3 | They also saw it as an opportunity to get the packages of care that they sought implemented as early as possible . |
| 4 | Friendship is more important than mountaineering , and so for their sakes I told them they 'd done very well and we turned back to the prospect of a more leisurely Sunday afternoon , with colour supplements , cats , coffee and carpets to lie on . |
| 5 | Some hours later , under a dull red sunset , they were creeping up Kentra Bay in the shadow of Beinn Bhreac , past the bay where they 'd stopped too short the first raid , through the narrow channel to the sheltered pool behind . |
| 6 | Told that the show 's creators are black American musicians , Rich said they 'd spent too long in London . |
| 7 | He had n't loved Vanessa , but he had enjoyed the fourteen months they 'd spent together here . |
| 8 | They did n't mention , they 'd mentioned somewhere else , but erm |
| 9 | They 'd revolved almost entirely around the encounter with the assassin . |
| 10 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 11 | In their dealings in the office they 'd worked well together , achieved an excellent rapport regarding the PR for the business fair , but somehow he 'd been the model of teasing aloofness , apparently with more time for Stephanie Marsa than for Caroline . |
| 12 | There 's more text , they get changed less often , and a Search function is genuinely useful if you can remember everything about a person except their surname . |
| 13 | yeah , they get paid far too much |
| 14 | In many ways the first two UDCs could not have possessed more diverse characteristics nor could they have differed more greatly in their potential to transform their respective areas from derelict urban landscapes to localities resonant with dynamic private sector activity . |
| 15 | In addition the costs and benefits of new procedures change over time as they become diffused more widely and in comparison to available alternatives . |
| 16 | They shipped a dreadful result a week ago , losing 2–0 at home to newly promoted Cobh Ramblers — and they 've scored just once in four outings . |
| 17 | And they 've given far more than but you or I will ever contemplate doing for God ! |
| 18 | They 've played here so often in the past they feel they know the place intimately . |
| 19 | Yes so lots of games for United to play at the moment with the postponements , a lot of mid-week games , a lot of games up here at the Manor , but erm as so often happens with United , after a good performance or a little a good run , they never quite do it at home do they , they never quite kill sides off and they draw in games that they 've played very well as they have done today . |
| 20 | Perhaps they 've run away together . |
| 21 | probably yeah , they 've gone outside though Ah I was gon na say to you if you get us all going on some aerobics |
| 22 | He 's not seen me , they 've gone straight past , he has not yet come to terms with the fact that his mummy 's a queen . |
| 23 | They 've gone much further to the right than had been expected . |
| 24 | Well now , you 're saying your consultants are enthusiastic about what they 've seen so far , we 're hearing a lot of doctors , G Ps , being very critical , why that ambivalence ? |
| 25 | I 've been there before and played well , and Dunwell , Withall ; there 's no reason why not and then bring Port Vale back here and give them a good — they 're a good side Port Vale , they 've done exceptionally well . |
| 26 | Yeah , well my local schools the girls say there 's a football team and they 've done quite well through to the finals so it is en encouraged in in local school of mine . |
| 27 | They 've er they 've done fairly well there with Perhaps if it 's happen to be a time when I 'm busy Richard you might do it as vice chairman . |
| 28 | and they 've done ever so well cos they did all Cos of course we had fine whether last week , they got everything done , and then it poured at the weekend but they were n't there , and now they 're back on site the weather 's cheered up again . |
| 29 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |
| 30 | That 's the trouble is n't it Peter , that 's so often the trouble with United as well , they 've done so well this afternoon , but such an important game against Oldham , again I 'm a great Oldham fan , I think Oldham play some delightful football . |