Example sentences of "they [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be found on the shaft of the penis and on the glans , but their predilection for a damp and warm environment makes them most often seen under the foreskin . |
| 2 | Perhaps ‘ second-joystick option ’ was the wrong phrase to use , but when joysticks were plugged into both ports , one of them most definitely DID N'T work ! |
| 3 | When you stop taking them altogether now do you mean ? |
| 4 | Modular or unit credit courses are currently the subject of much discussion in higher education , but interest in them in this country dates back to the 1970s ( much earlier in the USA ) when , for example , the Nuffield team produced a report on them rather facetiously called The Container Revolution ( Mansell 1976 ) . |
| 5 | So the programme 's the bit that you do , and then to them basically just cutting it , while it 's still down , you were still , the awkward thing is |
| 6 | Her sleeve of care was unravelled all right : her life was a basket of woollen shreds , all shades and textures and not one of them long enough to do anything with . |
| 7 | Every attempt will be made to open up dialogue with the kidnappers and to stall them long enough to trace where your wife and daughter are being held . |
| 8 | No-one has been using them long enough to know . |
| 9 | It takes them long enough to cut a way through to the chimney of the air shaft , sawing through the rhodie branches and tearing away the brambles and other undergrowth ; then they lever off the iron grating over the shaft without any difficulty , and one of the younger cops , in an overall and a hard hat , wraps the rope around himself — proper climbing rope they had in the back of one of the Range Rovers — and abseils down into the darkness . |
| 10 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 11 | G. is pleased with the response at the company — not only do they report as soon as possible when they 've got a pollution , they let him know about the progress they make : ‘ I 've got them so well trained now they 'll be phoning half an hour before they have a discharge . ’ |
| 12 | It must be its isolation which has kept them so unreasonably concealed from common knowledge . |
| 13 | On evening walks down Loreto , a lane of high stone walls , trying to decide on a restaurant , I would stop and run my hands over the ashlars , marvelling at the purity of each one as I have marvelled at the completeness of a sculpture by Brancusi ; each of them so tightly locked together that I found it impossible to fit a fingernail between them . |
| 14 | He was still sick and light-headed with the fever that had kept them so long immobilised at Cegidfa , and made the ride home such long-drawn discomfort to him ; but the sorry account he had to make of his stewardship weighed more heavily on his spirit than his wounds did on his body . |
| 15 | them so quickly do n't they ? |
| 16 | Whether pink or stripy , or black and hairy , they are almost all first generation wild fruits from endangered habitats in the Third World , though some of them so now languish in the hot-houses of New Zealand or the Channel Islands . |
| 17 | Telling the poorer workers that others were producing more , simply led to demoralisation ; they already knew that , and telling them so only made them feel worse . |
| 18 | They saw a great deal of each other , but , because Diana was so much younger and usually just one of a party , no one who saw them together ever suspected she was a girlfriend . |
| 19 | The right hon. Lady has seen the various groups to which I have referred , and I accept that the list is a long one , but she did not bring them together collectively to discuss a consensus . |
| 20 | These taxes are surely indefensible , because they are not only unproductive to the country , but actually put up the costs of producing our goods and make them less attractively priced for the overseas market . |
| 21 | he did , I 'll have his then , I said no you wo n't , but I like them , I know , but you ca n't have Martin 's , as Martin will cry , I buy him another one he 's absolutely mad on cream eggs , you never liked them when you were at his age , you do n't really like them much now do ya ? |
| 22 | Their respective economic stopping points may not leave them exactly equally matched . |
| 23 | You should of said well alright , I 'll take them away then took them right away then , |
| 24 | No , well they all said next time they 'll check , because some of them just just take it for granted . |
| 25 | The local government information unit , the labour party in disguise er I do n't think we need to er waste money on having propaganda coming from them just simply attacking the government , completely wasted . |
| 26 | Have them fucking ready made up and just |
| 27 | The middle reach was occupied by small craft , mostly laying up for the winter , some of them already double lashed down under weather-cloths . |
| 28 | Those who have n't got them certainly do n't want them , and those who have them already certainly do n't want them to get worse . |
| 29 | The leadership of the organization within the Labour Party remained with Cripps , Strauss and Mellor , all of them still fully committed to the Unity Manifesto . |
| 30 | Check them out carefully while they 're still in their bags in the shop , then convey them quickly home keeping them warm , and in the dark . |