Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They successfully politicised lived experiences of women in such a way that their concerns came to be seen as the concerns of Labour . |
| 2 | Heaton Mersey Village visited Wayfarers and scored 142 all out , a total they successfully defended bowling out Wayfarers for 112 . |
| 3 | This difference is significant ( p <0.05 ) ; however , the two groups did not differ significantly in their ability to recognise speakers 1 and 3 , whom they overwhelmingly failed to identify as black . |
| 4 | There were small motor-powered jalboots which hugged the coast , fishing or cargo hopping , but they rarely lifted sail , plying in and out of the Emirates using the region 's cheap petrol . |
| 5 | She pointed out that they rarely seemed to express affection towards Pamela and that this might be making her feel insecure . |
| 6 | Another ten shillings was put aside for food ; they rarely learnt to cook as landladies preferred to prepare the food the Girls had bought . |
| 7 | Certainly , they rarely threatened to win the match , though Dave Kirkwood — one of four former Hearts players in the Airdrie ranks — missed the most clear-cut chance of the game in the closing minutes . |
| 8 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 9 | James was in every respect the kind of driver Alexander would get along with and that their enterprise did not finish so very far from winning , and failed to win not a few times only through misfortune — or the injustice of fate , speaks creditably of an underlying seriousness that they rarely allowed to show . |
| 10 | Waving her around at this stage only serves to remind Conservatives of what they have lost , while it reminds the undecided 33 per cent of electors of what they most came to detest . |
| 11 | This controversy could in principle have been resolved if the Electricity Boards had had effective knowledge of their own costs in meeting specific loads , but they conspicuously failed to develop and use the research necessary to establish this . |
| 12 | While negotiations for the lease of the building went on , members of the Society engaged on various fundraising schemes , and they slowly began to clear the shed , restore services , and start to lay track . |
| 13 | The benches by the Cages were suddenly stark and mysterious as they slowly became set against this drifting whiteness . |
| 14 | From the middle of the 18th century writers and then artists had visited the ‘ Lakes ’ in a steadily increasing stream and jointly they slowly helped to transform public opinion from one of ‘ Salvatorian ’ horror , described by the earlier visitors , to a passionate romantic appreciation . |
| 15 | A programme of acquisitions which results in repeated dilution would seriously undermine Anglo-Welsh 's ability to diversify , whichever direction they eventually wished to go . |
| 16 | After a further series of internal meetings taking several days , they eventually agreed to pay half the sum , provided another organisation would put up the other half . |
| 17 | They eventually agreed to walk down the driveway and pose for pictures . |
| 18 | Thorndyke 's puzzle box forced animals to use a trial and error strategy in which they eventually had to happen on an answer through associations . |
| 19 | And yet they eventually did talk about ‘ the leg ’ and then ‘ the disease ’ and Iain heard the word ‘ Spinabifida ’ ; a word previously heard only on TV when charities were appealing for money . |
| 20 | They eventually learned to speak English and explained they had come from St Martin 's Land , a twilit , subterranean place . |
| 21 | My mother threw insults and then the crockery , while my father ignored the insults , caught the crockery , and produced endless cups of tea when they eventually decided to make up . |
| 22 | They only managed to convert one of them , when Shaun Taylor found the time and space in a crowded penalty area to knock home the equaliser . |
| 23 | When Izzy Kleiber was punished for his treachery , they only meant to give him a cruel ducking and a bad fright ; no one had taken into account the heavy rains . |
| 24 | They only served to emphasise the power and toughness which was the man beneath the civilised veneer , and Fran shivered , wishing she had never started this by letting her emotions come to the surface . |
| 25 | Even in the 1980s a troupe could be performing a highly individual routine in the most modern style but they only had to link arms , synchronize a few kicks and the audience would break into spontaneous applause . |
| 26 | They only had to miss half a dozen meals and they started to complain . |
| 27 | Dieters were told that they only had to ration carbohydrates and then they could eat as much as they liked of other foods . |
| 28 | In New York they were called an hour before the show opened , and once they had done their face make-up , they only had to put on tights rather than spend a long time carefully using wet white , which gave them longer to gossip . |
| 29 | They only had to drop a wizened bean over their shoulders for a plant to spurt from the ground and rain pods at them . |
| 30 | They only had to look at the floor of her cockpit to prove that . |