Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
| 2 | There was no need for them to be imported to Britain since they mostly came from countries which were capable of developing their own waste-disposal programmes . |
| 3 | They mostly consisted of Camberwell students . |
| 4 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 5 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | Another achievement , which both Christine and Bernie are proud of , is the ban on hunting on council-owned land that they successfully campaigned for back in 1982 . |
| 7 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 8 | Two years later they successfully appealed against the ruling in the High Court … and now Mr Gilberthorpe 's been told he 's too late bring the case to court again . |
| 9 | ASIANS are being asked to recall how they successfully adapted to British life . |
| 10 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |
| 11 | Most concentrated on the popular view of Best , with Smash Hits one of the few exceptions , as they churlishly explained to their readers : ‘ He was a former footballing hero who used to get raddled a lot . ’ |
| 12 | She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings . |
| 13 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 14 | Industrialists often made that sort of threat , but they rarely seemed to be carried out . |
| 15 | They rarely succeeded in making an antislavery question into a diplomatic issue , though they occasionally tried to exploit an existing issue for antislavery purposes . |
| 16 | But the social tact of the Masai was most impressively demonstrated by the fact that they rarely asked for anything . |
| 17 | One of the most popular misconceptions about the past is that our ancestors were rooted in one particular place , that they rarely ventured beyond their restricted horizons and that consequently they were limited in their outlook and in their knowledge of life beyond the parish . |
| 18 | The only time they spoke was to quarrel , and in the dressing room and round the dining-room at the Benson 's Theatre Home from Home they rarely sat beside each other . |
| 19 | They rarely performed as individuals ; from now on they were to remain in line , arms linked behind each other . |
| 20 | This group , known as T.E.C.A. , the Teachers ' Economic and Cultural Association Ltd. had been impressed by the strong nationalistic tone of Williams ' book and they wholeheartedly agreed with his sentiments that education of the people should be ‘ part of their democratic privileges and their democratic responsibilities ’ . |
| 21 | While these buildings often shared with Wren 's London churches a basic classical design , they fundamentally differed from them both in their smaller scale and greater simplicity . |
| 22 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 23 | Then , in 1988 , traces of 10 were found in Vietnam 's Nam Cat Tien swamp , where they presumably lived through the war . |
| 24 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 25 | They presumably put in train the arrangements for the necessary legislation , as on 27th April , Molesworth introduced a Bill to the House of Commons to enable the Government to acquire the land for the scheme . |
| 26 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 27 | The Puritan missionaries thought the heathens did n't deserve to exist and the heathens were so compliant that they duly dwindled towards extinction . |
| 28 | They duly disposed of India in the semi-final , only to lose to Australia in a game they should have won . |
| 29 | They duly arrived at the perimeter wire of the airfield and to their left they noticed a pair of Italian sentries manning a roadblock . |
| 30 | They duly arrived at 9.30 in spite of torrential rain , wind , vivid lightning and unusually severe thunder . |