Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which said basically they paid too much money for water . |
| 2 | Perhaps they got too many ! |
| 3 | T R E company Molecule theatre which came originally from the Mermaid in They came here two or three times a year for seven or eight years and we use to pack 'em out . |
| 4 | So they fitted up one of their own liners , The Atlas , for the accommodation of blacklegs . |
| 5 | So they packed up some pears and pineapples — set off well before the light hours |
| 6 | So they switched off one side of their brains in order to purge fatigue poisons from their systems while the other cerebral hemisphere remained alert for intruders … |
| 7 | Together they laid down strict rules to keep the vital traffic moving . |
| 8 | Last year alone they had over 400,000 winners and paid out more than £40 million . |
| 9 | SOON THEY BECAME VERY MUCH AS IT HAD BEEN BEFORE THEIR separation , except that Gina was a little more violent . |
| 10 | Finally they took on one opponent too many , receiving a resounding defeat at the hands of the Mamluks at Ain Jallud in 1260 . |
| 11 | Well they they were all no well you could maybe aye they help aye but er usually they had as much as they could do themselves you see . |
| 12 | Four months later they filled in further questionnaires . |
| 13 | It was their deep love for the Llŷn landscape , and a desire to keep it protected for future generations , which prompted the three Keating sisters , Honora , Lorna and Eileen , and their eighty-year-old mother to buy Plas-yn-Rhiw and its fifty-eight acres in 1939 ; later they purchased over 300 acres more with the express purpose of giving the land to the trust . |
| 14 | The shelves near the ground were usually well kept , but higher up they became more disorganised and larger in size , almost as tall as the pupils themselves . |
| 15 | It turned out they got rather drunk that night and were unable to get home . |
| 16 | Typically they lived very close by . |
| 17 | ten years ago now they took out these tremendous mortgages because their wages had trebled , it , it about a ten year period , you know when the boom was on |
| 18 | ‘ Everything takes twice as long now they got so much data on the computers . ’ |
| 19 | Many of the elements of a rounded theory of capitalist economic crisis were present in Bukharin 's writings , but overall they remained too disconnected to rise to the level of a coherent theory . |
| 20 | From this position nothing would be assumed a priori about the meaning of our study texts ( how far they qualified as racist , for example ) until their actual conditions of existence had been exhaustively examined . |
| 21 | Slowly they became more complex . |
| 22 | Latterly they looked increasingly obsolete when compared with the modern cars operated by Blackpool , and indeed most of them dated from the early years of the Century . |
| 23 | Well they did n't this year . |
| 24 | Yet even they remained adamantly loyal to the socialist parties , and , although generally identifying with the Mensheviks , moved markedly to the Left in the pre-war period . |
| 25 | It was based on a handful of samples and even they showed widely fluctuating results . ’ |
| 26 | Here they developed long thin linear villages . |
| 27 | They had occupied three weeks of my life and the whole of my workshop , but here they seemed very small . |
| 28 | Ours were different ; sometimes they seemed almost empty . |
| 29 | If they deserved what they got , then they had too much . |
| 30 | Then they brought out chromium-plated badges and buttons . |