Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Them yesterday goed to home . |
| 2 | There was no need for them to be imported to Britain since they mostly came from countries which were capable of developing their own waste-disposal programmes . |
| 3 | They mostly consisted of Camberwell students . |
| 4 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 5 | Another achievement , which both Christine and Bernie are proud of , is the ban on hunting on council-owned land that they successfully campaigned for back in 1982 . |
| 6 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 7 | She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings . |
| 8 | They rarely performed as individuals ; from now on they were to remain in line , arms linked behind each other . |
| 9 | They presumably put in train the arrangements for the necessary legislation , as on 27th April , Molesworth introduced a Bill to the House of Commons to enable the Government to acquire the land for the scheme . |
| 10 | The Puritan missionaries thought the heathens did n't deserve to exist and the heathens were so compliant that they duly dwindled towards extinction . |
| 11 | They duly disposed of India in the semi-final , only to lose to Australia in a game they should have won . |
| 12 | The Mesozoic ginkgos were a varied and numerous group of plants , but unlike the spruces and pines they slowly declined in variety throughout the Tertiary . |
| 13 | The sight of all which struck them with consternation or a kind of horror that they incontinently gave over search and with the utmost hurry and dread , throwing earth and turf to fill up the pit they made , they departed , having neither of them the courage to enter or even inspect into the further circumstances of the place ’ . |
| 14 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 15 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 16 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 17 | The cottage which they eventually discovered at Clevedon , on the Somerset coast south of Bristol , was not quite the ‘ honeymoon cottage ’ it has often been called . |
| 18 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 19 | While Sarah was trying to sort out the mess — they eventually married in May 1980 at St Mary 's church near Althorp — Diana was having fun . |
| 20 | This they eventually did at Messina — another positive augury for the future , perhaps — appointing to the post René Mayer who was , in fact , an associate of Monnet . |
| 21 | In Nottingham he acquired a mistress , Susan Grey , an attractive and educated widow who accompanied the Wards ( he was now using Hannah 's name ) to London , where they eventually settled in Peckham . |
| 22 | He deduced that the nomadic Hebrews had their origins there and had brought no more than a handful of the place names with them when they eventually settled in Palestine . |
| 23 | After the parents met they eventually emigrated to Australia , and were married there in 1983 . |
| 24 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 25 | So letters were unearthly and invaluable , even if they only came from Barclays Bank . |
| 26 | ( c ) Under anti-discriminatory legislation The Sex Discrimination Acts 1976 and 1986 These apply to all partnerships irrespective of the number of partners ( before 1986 they only applied to partnerships with six or more partners ) . |
| 27 | They only fought in order to protect somebody else ( ‘ like one of the younger kids who 's getting smashed up ’ ) but were clearly very capable of making a good job of it . |
| 28 | But they only asked for Eva to be found , not brought home . |
| 29 | However , he said they only asked about staffing contracts between Ling and the health authority , which were all above board . |
| 30 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |