Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [coord] they [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the press welcomed The Big Wheel with open arms , the public were less enthusiastic and they soon fell victim to overwhelming , or should that be underwhelming , apathy . |
| 2 | The state of mind of day-dream escapers was not simple and they both believed in their plans and knew quite well that they would never carry them out at the same time . |
| 3 | Er , there may be one there may have been one that failed , I 'm not sure but they probably did a resit and got through in September . |
| 4 | Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion . |
| 5 | Their green eyes fell on the strange eight-legged carving — which may indeed have been a spider , or an octopus , or may yet again have been something altogether more strange and they immediately decided that they were n't so hungry , at that . |
| 6 | Their social and economic pre-eminence was just beginning to seem more precarious and they wholeheartedly welcomed vigorous confirmation of the regime 's commitment to the status quo . |
| 7 | Bob Martin , from the Darlington Milk Buyers , said customers had been very generous and they still had more to collect . |
| 8 | The movies were something very new and they soon developed a unique and distinctive position within the culture but that position can only be fully understood by reference to that context of nineteenth-century popular culture from which they emerged . |