Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But out here , on the high road , it was difficult to recall the purple and blue shadows and the firelight and the long oak table where they had all taken supper . |
| 2 | Although they continued throughout to support Mrs Thatcher , a number were known privately to have expressed the belief that a failure to secure outright victory on the first ballot might irretrievably damage her authority and force her to stand down . |
| 3 | I did their first demos with them , and took the opportunity of telling them a few facts of life , saying that while it was nice to play guitar , if at the end of the line they were all broke then they were going to be very unhappy musicians who had missed their chance to be big , and so they had better take care of certain realities and do it right away . |
| 4 | At first , as Counts of Poitou , the Dukes had been chiefly involved in northern French politics but once they had also become Counts of Gascony their interests turned more and more to the south , towards Toulouse and towards Spain , where they took a leading part in the Holy War against the Moslems . |
| 5 | as if they 'd just discovered immortality to be |
| 6 | I never would have credited that people would talk about these illusions as if they 'd really taken place . ’ |
| 7 | On the other hand , she thought miserably , what if they had already made love , and were now dozing ; before waking to start all over again ? |
| 8 | Foreigners who stutter their way through an inquiry about the way to the railway station are congratulated as if they had just recited Pushkin 's Eugene Onegin , and are asked : ‘ How did you learn Russian ? ’ |
| 9 | First , in any case , he must find out if they had yet informed others of the contents of the letter . |
| 10 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 11 | Only some large religious or political issue would induce people to take the very considerable step involved in emigration if they had any established position to keep them in England — younger sons , the poor , and those with nothing to lose might easily be more ready to travel , if they could get the financial backing needed , or were willing to go as indentured labourers . |
| 12 | Banks made provisions of up to around 70% against total third-world loans , and assumed they would get tax relief as if they had actually lost money . |
| 13 | Three of these 30 patients ( two in the cyclosporin group and one in the placebo group ) were excluded because they had previously undergone colectomy for refractory colitis . |
| 14 | He thought it would certainly be a couple of days ' journey to the Fire Court — the giants would be sure to know , he said , because they had already sent emissaries with the marriage proposal . |
| 15 | However this teacher did comment that some of his colleagues in other schools were less happy with the change in emphasis , largely because they had always taught music as the development of a range of performance and theoretical skills , and were frightened by the stress the new syllabuses were putting upon improvisation and composition : |
| 16 | Of the 297 monitoring visits carried out by the ACCA in the year to 30 September 1992 , only 134 firms ( 45% ) were found to be satisfactory ; 139 firms ( 47% ) failed either because they had poorly developed quality controls over audit work or because some of their audit opinions were questionable ; and a further 23 firms ( 8% ) were considered to be ‘ potentially in breach of audit regulations or the ACCA 's professional conduct rules , to such an extent as to warrant immediate action ’ . |
| 17 | Considering they had also beaten New South Wales convincingly they could justifiably claim to be the top provincial side around . |
| 18 | The change of policy hit women especially hard since they had greatly outnumbered men as recipients of out-door relief . |
| 19 | Respondents were asked to say whether they had actually received assistance from relatives at the time when their own children were born , and also to indicate whether they would turn to relatives for support in three hypothetical situations , of varying degrees of seriousness : to borrow tools or materials ; if the respondent and/or his wife were ill for a couple of days ; if illness lasted several weeks . |
| 20 | Terribly wrong , and that was before they had even left England ! |
| 21 | Her worst fear had been that Jake would show up before they had even left Lomond View . |
| 22 | Mrs Lennox said Air Chief Marshal Sir Roger Palin , Air Member for Personnel , told them in a letter last month that their application was ‘ unlikely to succeed ’ before they had even submitted estimates from insurance companies of what their children 's education was likely to cost . |
| 23 | The couple fell in love before they had even set eyes on each other during a six-month long distance courtship . |
| 24 | Freemantle knew Leapor 's writing long before they had actually become friends . |
| 25 | This is exactly the system which many teacher-librarians and resource centre directors in Great Britain adopted for reprographic and audiovisual materials when they began consciously organizing resource collections ( rather than " libraries " ) in the late 19605 and early 19705 . |
| 26 | When they had all finished Mike stood up and said thank you to everybody for coming . |
| 27 | Indeed did n't some of those unfortunate Micks you buggers kept framing get done for handling gelignite when they 'd only played cards or struck matches or something ? ’ |
| 28 | DERRY City recorded their first win in four competitive games when they defeated newly promoted Monaghan United at the Brandywell last night to qualify for a quarter-final League Cup clash with Waterford United . |
| 29 | In fact , it was probably decreasing size in those creatures evolving from the therapsids that spurred the need for mammalian endothermy when the problems of overheating became the reverse — when they needed later to maintain temperatures . |
| 30 | When they did enough to earn wages , they were allowed to keep or spend half , the other half being saved for them on their release . |