Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to punch and kick them , give them some of the treatment they doled out so carelessly . |
| 2 | Under assault by Muslim Arabs , they found that these pinnacles provided their only protection and they clung on there , up amid the remains of the ancient cedar forests . |
| 3 | For a long time they clung together so until , with a haggard shaking of her head , Emilia freed herself from the embrace , struggled for , and found , a measure of composure . |
| 4 | They clung so tenaciously to the idea that Rose felt she could n't stand in their way . |
| 5 | As they crept slowly forward over the plain his eyes searched for those tiny villages made of mud with their bamboo groves and their ponds ; and though the plain was perfectly flat the villages were somehow hidden in its folds , blending with it . |
| 6 | But the funny thing is they fell in exactly the same way . |
| 7 | They lay there together for several minutes gasping and perspiring . |
| 8 | They lay quite still in the darkness , listening to the roar of Mr Evans 's voice and the thin squeak of his sister 's . |
| 9 | Tony had had a 68 to Jack 's 66 , so the lead was cut to 7 , and sure enough they met up again on the 6th and 12th greens . |
| 10 | What groups , yeah groups for particular things on , on the , you know like campaigns or prisoners there were special groups dealing only with this those , they met on there own , not there were n't any |
| 11 | She felt it was not just chance that they met so often near her home , yet he only talked about what was happening in other parts of the world , never of people they knew or of his feelings towards her . |
| 12 | The literary lives of Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell ran parallel through the 1930s and 1940s , and they met only once — in 1949 — the meeting proving wholly unmemorable , as it happens , for its conversation . |
| 13 | sharpening , where they sharpening down there ? |
| 14 | They got away earlier than usual , and the river is suitable for a fairly fast run . ’ |
| 15 | but they 've got to , I remember when Rhys played in that , the F A bars quarter final , two seasons ago down here , they got well over a thousand down there then , and you just could n't move , that were brilliant , all the way round the ground there were about four of five people deep |
| 16 | But unfortunately , again , we 're goi , going back history-wise , the civils and the mechanicals and electricals , and you 've only got ta go to London and see what palatial places they got just virtually adjacent to the Houses of Parliament you 'll find mechanical engineers , and also the civil engineers in Bird Cage Walk . |
| 17 | The others expected and got little enough : they got even less . |
| 18 | What about the young girl they got up here ? young girl 's here . |
| 19 | It was er you know they came with a big traction engine and the thrashing mill and then they they got up early in the morning and there was the man that looked after the thrashing mill and fork from the carts onto the onto the mill . |
| 20 | They got on badly , they were unhappy with the school , so they did n't try . |
| 21 | They got on exceptionally well over a bottle of whisky which the expatriate had brought as a gift . |
| 22 | They got on remarkably well as friends . |
| 23 | When all three of them were together they got on remarkably well . |
| 24 | They got on well . |
| 25 | They were not especially close , Becky and her aunt , but they got on well enough . |
| 26 | Sensible , practical and tireless , they got on well together and were beyond praise . |
| 27 | You see , it appears that they got on well enough . |
| 28 | At those times , they got on well together . |
| 29 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 30 | In both cases , their separate experience may well have created a special atmosphere , although my informants all stressed that they got on perfectly well with the men at work . |