Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She , Esther and Alix had known one another since their Cambridge days , and often met , but an evening with them necessarily excluded Charles : Esther and Alix did not much care for the world that Charles represented , and his presence inhibited all three of them . |
| 2 | I think that generally they came in because they liked the style erm they , they , usually had er , in their minds what they wanted and because they go round and see all these fittings at night , I mean our shop used to be all the fittings were lit up at night so that you could have a look in , erm it 's very confusing I think when you , you 've got an awful lot of fittings in , in , in a shop and , and all of them lit , decide which one 's gon na to be the best for your house , but I think most of them already had ideas what , what sort of fitting they wanted and of course we used to do a great deal of |
| 3 | Neither of them ever mentioned Mr Hellyer 's name again . |
| 4 | Because of the regular placement of the chairs around the fire , they were quite close together — and yet the small spaces between them quickly became boundaries . |
| 5 | Some of them also gave tribute to the Yenisei Kirgiz from the Minusinsk Depression . |
| 6 | One of them nearly got Rodo when we first arrived here . ’ |
| 7 | Some of them clearly formed part of the furnishing of principal rooms in Sir Robert Walpole 's house which was supervised by William Kent . |
| 8 | As he walked with his brothers , Angel felt that , however lucky they were to have a university education , neither of them really saw life as it was lived . |
| 9 | None of them really grilled Mr Major about Maastricht . |
| 10 | Both of them now had images of sheltering sheep in their heads . |
| 11 | Neither of them now took notice of Aggie 's returning to the room and seating herself down on the leather couch . |
| 12 | Two of them spontaneously told Dr Tervahauta that they wished to commit suicide instead of ‘ living like animals ’ . |
| 13 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 14 | The employment of clerks in the Forest administration was anathema to the leaders of the English clergy : they successfully opposed Passelewe 's preferment beyond the archdeaconry of Lewes . |
| 15 | This forced the purse-seine fleet to fish outside the eastern Pacific and they successfully caught tuna without encircling dolphins . |
| 16 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 17 | They rarely ate meat , and rather than consume butter , milk , meat , poultry and eggs , preferred to send any such produce to market . |
| 18 | Leicester 's Geordie boss Brian Little , in contrast , paraded his strongest side but they rarely threatened Newcastle . |
| 19 | Unlikely — they rarely attacked man — but he took no chances . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | They rarely had visitors , and if ever anyone was expected the front drawing room in its pale greens and pinks with damp spots over the wall could be aired and dusted . |
| 22 | 20.23 ; I Kings 1.38 ) ; they presumably spoke Greek . |
| 23 | When they eventually became man and wife , it was the ‘ quietest of quiet weddings ’ and they had to pay half-a-crown for two passers-by to act as witnesses . |
| 24 | Sgt Grainger said they eventually accepted £50 but it appears no repairs have been completed . |
| 25 | After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night . |
| 26 | Angie recalls how she moved in with David 's mother to comfort her and how they eventually found Haddon Hall , a large Victorian folly in Beckenham , where ultimately she and David lived along with Tony Visconti and his girlfriend Liz . |
| 27 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 28 | Narrowly escaping the hostile intentions of the awakened populace , they eventually bore Mildred into Canterbury amid great rejoicing . |
| 29 | They delayed revisions of the Factory Law which were aimed at strengthening protective measures for workers and they effectively opposed government attempts to grant legal recognition to trade unions at that time ( Taira , 1973 ) . |
| 30 | There were lesbians on the staff at my school , but they only taught things like hockey and sewing . |