Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got quite well known down there . |
| 2 | What matters are the collections , and they remain as poorly exhibited as ever . |
| 3 | Early in the eighteenth century they became more firmly subjected to Dzhungaria . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Children assign distinct meanings to distinct forms , but the distinctions they make early on do not always coincide exactly with the conventional adult ones . |
| 8 | There were crowds of people everywhere but , when they saw Burun 's banner , they moved politely aside to let the party pass . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now they forget so fast do n't they ? |
| 11 | During this process younger children learn that if they cry loud enough to get the parent involved they usually get their own way . |
| 12 | Under de Gaulle they opted almost unanimously to do so . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections ; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They came forward again to shake hands and sympathise . |
| 17 | ‘ They came very well prepared . |
| 18 | Nigel said ‘ Your place or mine ? ’ when they 'd both duly impressed each other with lies . |
| 19 | They 'd pretty well packed their bags anyway , she said , it 's been raining there every day . ’ |
| 20 | They 'd simply not bothered . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They 'd only just pitched camp , but I soon had them on their way . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They 'd apparently already decided to loan me to Carlisle Flint . |
| 25 | They 'd better not go on that thing . |
| 26 | ‘ They 'd better not try it ! |
| 27 | They 'd better not get any on me after I 've done this , put it that way . |
| 28 | Mick Ronson : ‘ At the time when that story came out , my family in Hull took a lot of flak about it because they 'd never even heard about it up there . |
| 29 | They 'd never even heard of it before . |
| 30 | They 'd never even met Olivier , of course . |