Example sentences of "they [adv] [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hiring firm were very affronted when rung up , and assured the film company that they only ever supplied blanks . |
| 2 | Surely they must have some doubts , made some mental reservations to the creed they so confidently recited morning and night . |
| 3 | Bath had a good long look at the videos and soon saw that little variations of this move could break opposition defences just as easily as the blasting back-row scrum moves with which Australia had devastated England when they so mistakenly toured Australia last year . |
| 4 | Now policemen , we used to have to give these blessed people these tickets , and we used to have a book , and they just merely gave name , age , occupation , which was nearly always labourer , where , and they had to tell us where they came from and where they intended going to , and more often that was from Stowmarket to , or the other way round . |
| 5 | I did n't think too much about this at the time , although I knew they usually only had money for their ‘ little pleasures ’ after they 'd done the washing and pawned it . |
| 6 | They also often resented piece-wages or any other method of speeding up complex and difficult tasks , and thereby lowering the quality of self-respecting work . |
| 7 | You only have to look and see what happened in Germany when Beckenbauer retired , in Brazil when they lost Pele and Holland when they no longer had Cruyff . |
| 8 | And the Duke made sure that they no longer gave employment in the studios to these conspirators . |
| 9 | They they very seldom bought things for themselves , it was spent on the children . |
| 10 | Montagu testified that they never seriously doubted Lloyd George 's ability to form a Government . |
| 11 | They never really thought nomes existed , he thought , but they wanted to believe that we did . |
| 12 | ‘ They never really wanted interviews and did n't like being public figures . |
| 13 | They certainly never mentioned Venice — ’ |