Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all their bluster about foreign conspiracy , the foreigners who worry them most live not in the United States or Western Europe but in Hungary , Poland and the Soviet Union . |
| 2 | I 'll bring them little divils back to the house for ye , mam . |
| 3 | A symbiotically mute pair then sectioned each of these into eight translucent oblongs , flouring them and stacking them delicately to sell on to the baklava and bougatsa makers round the corner . |
| 4 | Seals have almost spherical lenses and can not flatten them enough to see far through the air . |
| 5 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 6 | After loud good nights and thanks to Squeaky , the four of them finally staggered out into the cool air of late evening . |
| 7 | In Carter 's case , this ungainly , elaborate , opulent press conference is their first giant step into the mad , bad world of record company hype — a joke that got out of control — and , after all the fanfare and foreplay , to have them finally sitting there in the middle of a hall in Belgium almost seems like a punchline that is n't very funny . |
| 8 | Megadeth are a band with thousands of followers , some of them just starting out on the guitar . |
| 9 | ‘ Lovely bit of weather , ’ said her father , and her mother remarked that she always thought it so silly of them not to go out in the country more when they lived so near to it . |
| 10 | Well I think that it must be recognised that the current state of demand and supply is going to make it very difficult for most applicants , and we would be concerned to advise them not to panic unduly as a result of that , and to make their choices on the sort of rational criteria that would apply in any year . |
| 11 | From a family of fish merchants , he has served on Billingsgate committees and all but despairs of ‘ them ever getting on with the real business of selling fish ’ . |
| 12 | They prowled across the soft carpet in their elegant high-heeled shoes , and then kicked them off to lounge seductively on the four-poster bed . |
| 13 | I would like them both to go back from the month of June . |
| 14 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 15 | and the Monday , and they eventually turned up on the Tuesday . |
| 16 | Others hated and ignored them , saying they only came down to the city to steal . |
| 17 | They only found out about the marriage afterwards and used it to strengthen their case , which was , basically that the Archbishop could n't have someone teaching in a school in Clontarf who was the author of a banned book . |
| 18 | The working-class wives of early eighteenth-century London earned from charring , laundry , nursing , making and mending clothes , hawking , silk-winding and in the catering and victualling services : The great majority of women were unable to work in male trades and , since nearly three quarters of women wanted to or had to work for a living , they necessarily competed intensely for the work which was left , much of it of a casual nature and none of it organised by gilds and livery companies . |
| 19 | Six more joined it , slowly screwing out of nothing , until they suddenly stretched together into a tangled web of pulsating tendrils . |
| 20 | Next morning I was sitting on the garage roof watching starlings squabbling on the lawn and wondering if they were too busy to have noticed me , when they suddenly took off with a great rush of wings . |
| 21 | WC apps : 8 The Belgians tend to be ignored until they suddenly turn up in the latter stages of major tournaments — the final of the 1980 European Championship and the semi-finals of the last World Cup . |
| 22 | The male does not let them drop far — he catches them as they literally shoot out of the female . |
| 23 | In other plants , nutrients flowing down stems are absorbed through the root system , but here they apparently pass straight into the stem . |
| 24 | As soon as they sight a predator approaching , they swiftly dart round to the far side of a tree-trunk before performing the rigid ‘ statue ’ response . |
| 25 | Yes , is n't , those are for my mother 's day bouquets and I just stick them in and they just come out in the vase . |
| 26 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 27 | They just got on with the job . |
| 28 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 29 | They just sit there by the fire projecting their thoughts into each other 's brains , like me and Greenslade . |
| 30 | The curators of the grand US museums like the Metropolitan look down their noses at these shows , but the citizens of Memphis are pleased as can be , because before WONDERS they just felt out in the boondocks . |