Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 2 | They rarely strayed out of Middleton but Solowka remembers with perverse affection a gig at Liverpool University , where he was studying for his degree in environmental biology . |
| 3 | They gamely fought back to 27-20 with a Rob Myler try 10 minutes from time . |
| 4 | His kisses were deep and cherishing and hungry , and it was a long time before they eventually came up for air . |
| 5 | The two mills were thus run in tandem by Marling and Co from 1883 to 1920 , when they eventually sold out to P.C. Evans and Sons Ltd . |
| 6 | Even Jimmy 's early morning blues were not proof against that , and they eventually arrived back at base in a much better humour than when they took off . |
| 7 | and the Monday , and they eventually turned up on the Tuesday . |
| 8 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 9 | They only gazed back at us with eerie little smiles . |
| 10 | Remember , they only missed out on meeting Copenhagen in the first round proper by 0.3 of a point . |
| 11 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
| 12 | One evening in May 1979 they eagerly clambered in after warming up with several glasses of favourite tipple , turned the thermostat up high and set to . |
| 13 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 14 | Those at the north end of Normangate Field remained essentially agricultural in character throughout the second century , after which they apparently went out of use . |
| 15 | No but they , they just ran out in front of you , those other four . |
| 16 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 17 | They just got on with whatever task was to hand . |
| 18 | They just got on with the job . |
| 19 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 20 | They just mucked about until four in the morning . |
| 21 | The curators of the grand US museums like the Metropolitan look down their noses at these shows , but the citizens of Memphis are pleased as can be , because before WONDERS they just felt out in the boondocks . |
| 22 | For if property values and social status north of St Giles shaded imperceptibly from one microclimate to another , the other side of the Cherwell they just dropped out of sight . |
| 23 | Erm , they just went on to their fifth form |
| 24 | So when anybody wanted to repot a plant they just went round to this lady then did they ? |
| 25 | So they they did n't post them they people did the bidding they just went round like a postman and |
| 26 | But they just went out of fashion as well . |
| 27 | They just went out for dinner , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 28 | How , this is how they just came back to me so |
| 29 | I never said anything then he er I could see he 'd gone cos he just stood there for about ten minutes like th and everybody else was working , he just stood there like this for about ten minutes by the rack see him doing nothing I never said nothing he come charging through with a rack and knocked all the pallet over what they just stacked up with fifty boxes on so we had to make that right and he stacked a load of L T M boxes which are temperamental anyway and he had n't pulled the wrap tight so as soon the bloke lift them up with the forklift , they fell all over ! |
| 30 | I think they just sucked up to David , and began to put the boot in really , quite unnecessarily and unfairly . |