Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This forced the purse-seine fleet to fish outside the eastern Pacific and they successfully caught tuna without encircling dolphins . |
| 4 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 5 | They rarely ate meat , and rather than consume butter , milk , meat , poultry and eggs , preferred to send any such produce to market . |
| 6 | Leicester 's Geordie boss Brian Little , in contrast , paraded his strongest side but they rarely threatened Newcastle . |
| 7 | Unlikely — they rarely attacked man — but he took no chances . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 20.23 ; I Kings 1.38 ) ; they presumably spoke Greek . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sgt Grainger said they eventually accepted £50 but it appears no repairs have been completed . |
| 13 | After half an hour of marching towards the ever-loudening village dog , they eventually found shelter for the night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Narrowly escaping the hostile intentions of the awakened populace , they eventually bore Mildred into Canterbury amid great rejoicing . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | There were lesbians on the staff at my school , but they only taught things like hockey and sewing . |
| 19 | Cos they only booked seats for the immediate family . |
| 20 | They only reached Azzano , where a partisan leader , fearful of the kind of publicity the Italians would receive if they handed over their ex-Duce to the Allies , had them put up against a wall and shot . |
| 21 | Tony Phillips asked the two men to leave 15 times but they only went minutes before police arrived . |
| 22 | But a number of those have complained that although they paid premium prices , they only received budget accomodation . |
| 23 | They only had minutes . |
| 24 | These butts are pre-dyed , but I was curious as to why they only had colour on one side . |
| 25 | Their natural children are very well qualified academically — they only played tennis — but my brother and I were into sport . |
| 26 | I thought they only liked bananas . ’ |
| 27 | Well they only started tarmacadam in nineteen thirty six . |
| 28 | They only wanted women and children , so Mam came to work here , and when I was big enough , I did too . |
| 29 | The main methods subjects from which students were drawn crossed the spectrum , except that no Physical Education teachers were mentioned ( this reflects one return from a College , which wrote back politely refusing to answer the questionnaire on the grounds that as they only trained PE teachers the language issue did not arise ) . |
| 30 | 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 . |