Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 2 | The Schools Council 's early projects have been criticized in that they rarely took account of the context of the individual institutions where change was sought and ignored the fact that there was little consensus amongst teachers about the value of change anyway ( Becher and Maclure , 1978 ; Kelly , 1982 ; Richards , 1983 ; Cassidy , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night . |
| 4 | These butts are pre-dyed , but I was curious as to why they only had colour on one side . |
| 5 | Well they only started tarmacadam in nineteen thirty six . |
| 6 | This time round they were told they would not be able to enter the National Federation of Meat Traders bi-annual sausage competition at Harrogate as one of the sponsors , the Meat and Livestock Commission , held that they only provided sponsorship for mainland competitors . |
| 7 | When the Report was sent to Mrs Thatcher 's office with summaries and references prepared by the civil servants at the DES , they naturally drew attention to our firm proposals for the teaching of spelling , punctuation , grammar and written and spoken Standard English . |
| 8 | So when Fleischmann and Pons announced test-tube fusion as a source of energy — which was the ‘ angle ’ that the media took up and portrayed it as a clean source — the news that they apparently saw tritium as a fusion product was lost on most media , but it made many scientists concerned and others excited . |
| 9 | They say it 's too soon considering that they just started work with Bull on them , as we ourselves noted . |
| 10 | They nevertheless had difficulty in hiding their satisfied smiles . |
| 11 | Coetzee , describing the leagues as part of a Conservative effort to get to grips with mass politics and the ‘ new religion ’ of socialism , explains the timing of their appearance on the grounds that prior to the 1890s ‘ the Conservatives had no need of recourse to such pressure groups because they already possessed access to institutions adequate for the defence of their interests within the existing sociopolitical framework ’ . |
| 12 | For much of his reign they persistently took advantage of Charles ' absence in Italy or Spain to revolt against his rule . |
| 13 | While the press welcomed The Big Wheel with open arms , the public were less enthusiastic and they soon fell victim to overwhelming , or should that be underwhelming , apathy . |
| 14 | Barcelona had already been refused a penalty , but they soon drew level through Julio Salinas , the deceptively inelegant striker who has taken Gary Lineker 's reluctant ill-fitted role on the right wing and , on Saturday , made such a good job of it that he might have had a hat-trick but for Francisco Buyo 's reflexes . |
| 15 | In a study of 400 of the biggest bank mergers in the 1980s , FMCG Capital Strategies , a New York consultancy , found that four out of five deals failed miserably — to the point where they soon destroyed value for the acquiring bank . |
| 16 | And it 's quite true , I was there about four years and they always took stock before January the first , so that after Christmas came an anomaly , we 'd had a Christmas holiday and gone back to work . |
| 17 | They always had bidding for the funeral and sometimes the family would write out the the bids . |
| 18 | They always had dinner at night , about seven . |
| 19 | Seeking to translate this question of morality to local issues , I asked the question , did the candidates agree that it was morally wrong and perhaps a misuse of public funds for local councillors to claim that there was no money available to install gas central heating in the homes of elderly disabled people when they always found money for hospitality allowances and trips abroad for themselves . |
| 20 | Sixty-nine percent of authorities in our sample ( see Table 17 ) said they directly budgeted money for training , ( 70.5% of the CRUS sample , with one-quarter of the authorities who directly budgeted money also calculating a specific further amount , e.g. : |
| 21 | Let Clan Diarmaid rue the day they ever raised hand against Clan Gillian ! ’ |
| 22 | Following the appointment of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653 , religious considerations once more came to the fore , although whether they ever took precedence over the more secular impulses behind foreign policy is doubtful . |
| 23 | And it was milk , after they 'd milked the cow first time , after she 'd had a calf , well the first milking , they usually got blood in the milk , you see ? |
| 24 | When ministers uttered phrases such as the need for ‘ public accountability ’ — a suitably imprecise but popular slogan — they usually meant accountability to themselves , rather than to Parliament or the public . |
| 25 | They also secured sponsorship from the Women and Children Division of South Tees Acute Hospitals , and from outside companies . |
| 26 | They also collected money in a bucket on their way . |
| 27 | They also got hold of nose tackle Bill Mass from Kansas City — not exactly a reject , but he went . |
| 28 | The Croat and FRY delegations , however , discussed economic and transport relations and the return of Croatian refugees to UN zones in Serb-held areas of Croatia , and agreed to the stationing of UN monitors at Croatian and FRY airports ; they also reached agreement on Oct. 19 on an exchange of prisoners of war . |
| 29 | The abbots exercised a feudal lordship over vast territories of northern England — all the Furness district , much of the Lake District and parts of Yorkshire — and they also owned land in the Isle of Man and Ireland . |
| 30 | ‘ They also raised money through charity events and there has been tremendous support from the local community . ’ |