Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] [conj] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , Swan flew higher than ever before and they came to an enormous billowing cloud that was shining in a pale golden light , and in the folds of this cloud Little Billy could make out creatures of some sort moving around . |
| 2 | The 1992 version shows more vegetables and flowers than ever before and they are bigger , newer , more colourful and genetically purer . |
| 3 | It can not be right to treat unmarried women who have the support of a partner both as if they had no such support and better than if they were married . |
| 4 | In this way there was in human history a cumulative build up of knowledge and success in adaptation to the environment which made human beings very quick to adapt to new problems — much more easily and quickly than if they had depended only on genetic transmission . |
| 5 | Various terms are used to describe children and young people who are no longer at home , frequently incorrectly and often as though they were interchangeable ( De'Ath , 1986 ) . |
| 6 | As Shama talked , Hussa added a reminder here and there as though they were stories which she had heard many times before . |
| 7 | Indeed the witnesses did not suggest that they could not regulate their operations , but rather that if they did , their respective undertakings would cease to be viable . |
| 8 | It was not as though other people were speaking a foreign language , but rather as though they were using the English language as the basis of a code to which I had somehow lost the key . |
| 9 | talk of a ‘ changing moral climate ’ and point to legislative change that decriminalised certain forms of behaviour , but further than that they do not go . |
| 10 | and er , we have two boys that do it with us as well and when they come out to youth clubs with us the girls and the boys that we go and speak to love having a male there |