Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got quite well known down there . |
| 2 | Early in the eighteenth century they became more firmly subjected to Dzhungaria . |
| 3 | Fru Gertlinger , the young wife of the gardener at the Villa , recently become housekeeper , made them picnic lunches and every day they rode out early to check their notes and make sure that they had missed nothing . |
| 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 spent billions of pounds on the nightmare of the poll tax , and millions of pounds were lost to the taxpayer when they sold off publicly owned assets at well below valuation . |
| 7 | There were crowds of people everywhere but , when they saw Burun 's banner , they moved politely aside to let the party pass . |
| 8 | Under de Gaulle they opted almost unanimously to do so . |
| 9 | When , on 1 January 1864 , the tsar legislated for the creation of the new assemblies — " zemstva " ( or , if the plural is anglicized , " zemstvos " ) — they seemed not only to represent provincial society as a whole but also to possess considerable authority . |
| 10 | They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections ; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | You have to remember they came round here to kill me . |
| 13 | " They came round again to see if they could find any more clues , " Sara said , " but so far a blank ; and also , I don think anything was stolen , thanks to you . |
| 14 | They came forward again to shake hands and sympathise . |
| 15 | They came in today to give us this talk about kind of er , kind of erm , money we 're gon na get , whatever today , you know , like they said about the Poll Tax |
| 16 | ‘ They came very well prepared . |
| 17 | With a good break for lunch they came out fully recharged and in fighting spirit for the afternoon 's W. Byers Shield , a competition based on the Stableford system . |
| 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 not even washed |
| 21 | They 'd not really given themselves the opportunity to consider a song from beginning to end — with them it was just get high and play . |
| 22 | They 'd not long allowed white caddies at Augusta , and the police were n't used to people like me . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They 'd only just pitched camp , but I soon had them on their way . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They 'd apparently already decided to loan me to Carlisle Flint . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They 'd never even heard of it before . |
| 29 | They 'd never even met Olivier , of course . |
| 30 | They 'd never really taken off , and repeated raids and tougher licensing had killed them completely . |