Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [vb pp] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now to many people community arts is a red rag to a bull because there is the feeling that a lot of these things start off quite splendidly as voluntary organizations , and suddenly they 've got their fingers in the public purse . |
| 2 | Better surely to embrace it in the company of those one has loved , and as one slips away , to know from their tears how much they have loved one too . |
| 3 | So basically they 've broken their contract with me and he 's not even responded to that letter . |
| 4 | It was decided that perhaps they had outlived their use and they were n't served at the reception . |
| 5 | But of course they had been drunk too , worse , most of them far worse than herself — perhaps they had forgotten she was ever with them . |
| 6 | Well perhaps they 've given him er a green carrot . |
| 7 | Perhaps they 've lost it . |
| 8 | Perhaps they 've got something else in mind Geoff . |
| 9 | Perhaps they 've changed their minds again , it 's always , there 's , they 've got to frighten you all the time with sometime like that have n't they ? |
| 10 | ‘ They dinna' seem tae be carrying my skipping-rope , so perhaps they 've thrown it dawn somewhere . ’ |
| 11 | perhaps they 've left them with someone who has done that . |
| 12 | Perhaps they have lost something in the printing , but the reader will never know . |
| 13 | ‘ Perhaps they have taken our advice and talked to their mums and dads about what was wrong and things have worked out . |
| 14 | Obviously they 'd lost it . |
| 15 | ‘ If only they 'd taken me ! |
| 16 | If only they had done something — anything — differently . |
| 17 | If only they had insisted she come home earlier . |
| 18 | ‘ If only they had saved us . |
| 19 | If only they had shown my foresight they would have had nothing to worry about . |
| 20 | They 've got one in they 've got one in like that as well have n't they ? |
| 21 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 22 | So they had followed their main course with torta di albicocche , a sweet pastry case filled with apricots in a creamy egg custard . |
| 23 | In doing so they had discharged their duty of care . |
| 24 | The testicle had been dead so they had taken it out and sent it off for tests . |
| 25 | me , I , I got , I took me old three put out the other day and so they said got your |
| 26 | Oh so they 've done what they 've got to do |
| 27 | So they 've done it . |
| 28 | So they 've done it , I think someone er who 's walking along the road , see you standing there taking that picture and say , what on earth are they taking a picture of that for ? |
| 29 | so they 've done it with nine then eh ? |
| 30 | So they 've suspended him from his event , the 5,000 metres , for four years . |