Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly they met burnt chip contamination and had to shut down the production line , a major anxiety as they were producing to a tight schedule in a ‘ Just in time ’ situation . |
| 2 | Suddenly they heard loud cries coming from the servants ' rooms , at the side of the house . |
| 3 | How long they sat unmoving Sally-Anne never knew . |
| 4 | Their manpower requirements were planned in detail and they knew exactly when and for how long they needed additional workers . |
| 5 | Perhaps they said other things , too — I do n't know . |
| 6 | ( Perhaps they despatched certain people to chop down the trees and make the charcoal ? |
| 7 | And it was very easy for young erm young women erm who were either just on supplementary benefit or on unemployment , erm to get sucked into that way of living because I mean obviously they wanted nice clothes and things like that . |
| 8 | So they made different decisions about the best places for their industries . |
| 9 | In doing so they invested Russian literature with a moral passion and intensity which remains breath-taking . |
| 10 | Marxist theoreticians argued that without a confident class to support it liberalism failed to complete the bourgeois revolution against feudalism ; thus they sought tactical models in Tsarist Russia that represented a stage of development comparable to that of modern Spain . |
| 11 | Thus they caused deep resentment in the hearts of the British troops , more taciturn , impoverished , and clothed in far rougher and less smart uniforms . |
| 12 | The physical setting of a parish influenced not only the ways in which a family might farm their land or work at a particular craft but also such basic matters as whether they lived in a village , a hamlet or an isolated farmstead , whether or not they had valuable rights of common to go with their farms or cottages , and sometimes the type of tenure by which they held their land . |
| 13 | But whether or not they had sufficient power to exert real influence on state policy , the monarchs were justified in considering themselves the most important persons on the European political stage . |
| 14 | I do n't think she approved of such stunts , whether or not they made good television . |
| 15 | People lacking supportive relationships were expected to be prone to depression whether or not they experienced major difficulties or threatening events . |
| 16 | Still they raised great statues to celebrate the moment when they had laid the Hung Mao low . |
| 17 | Later generations spread south as far as the tip of South America ; later still they reached similar latitudes in southern New Zealand . |
| 18 | As ever they found drunk drivers but across the area the numbers fell . |
| 19 | Yeah like they got little metal plates |
| 20 | Gradual encroachment by landowners stealing a few feet whenever they cultivated adjacent fields had severely reduced the width of the original ‘ cordons sanitaire ’ . |
| 21 | Although in all the three books considered there is some evolutionary scheme , when we take them together it is clear that Marx and Engels were very willing to modify the overall picture whenever they obtained new information . |
| 22 | Later they cleared isolated patches of trees to grow crops and keep animals . |
| 23 | If you look from towards , which was a large house in a clump of trees , at the far side was a pavilion which was the clubhouse , they used to hold air displays and pleasure flights , also they had commercial flights . |
| 24 | And also they wanted harsh decisions to be taken in respect of their effects on industry . |
| 25 | For some years now they had licensing agreements with some major U S companies to produce ‘ Laura Ashley ’ designs on sheets and other home furnishings . |
| 26 | Of course they would mourn for Renascia and remember all of the good things about it , only just now they had other things to concentrate on . |
| 27 | Medics presented glowing testimonies to successive government inquiries on the marvellous conversion worked by the acts ; where before the conduct of prostitutes was miserable in the extreme , now they had common decency and self-respect . |
| 28 | By day the alleys that ran into a scruffy hinterland were rat-hole rubbish traps but now they seemed romantic lanes where lovers might meet under the bracket lamps and as the sun departed , watch the moon ride over a Grimms ' fairy tale huddle of pinnacled rooftops . |
| 29 | For the demolition parties the days of scheming and planning were over : now they needed steady nerves and physical strength . |
| 30 | Often they lacked day-to-day knowledge of the firms they had invested in , and had a tendency to sell their shares the instant a firm hit trouble . |