Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some were so badly treated they had to be humanly destroyed . |
| 2 | However , people have since realised they have been lured into a debt trap aimed at bringing the working class to heel , with unemployment the main weapon . |
| 3 | Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now . |
| 4 | Guessing , of course , but I think the speed of the reply to the second message showed how badly shaken they were . |
| 5 | Of course , if his tasks are badly designed they may well make unnecessary demands . |
| 6 | No doubt if their theses eventually appear they will contradict my oversimplified ideas on the matter , but this seems to me an ideal place to demonstrate " event stratigraphy " . |
| 7 | Tracy Miles and Susan Little say they 're victims of a policy now adopted by many insurance companies . |
| 8 | ‘ Railways still in a mess after the air raids — they were so delayed they missed the last ferry connection . |
| 9 | If they 're wrongly placed they can blank out the screens and make them impossible to read . |
| 10 | Halfway round they met Theodora walking with her uncle in the direction of the members enclosure . |
| 11 | We can only presume they mean too BUSY |
| 12 | Of course , the states with good measurements tend to be the ones that had suddenly realised they might run out of capacity , and taken action to avoid that . |
| 13 | James responded by supporting the role of the merchandisers , of whom he said , ‘ I do not think they are changing the LA image — I can only think they are enhancing it by ensuring the best level of stock service to the shops . ’ |
| 14 | She said of the IRA : ‘ I can only think they are a dumping ground for psychotics and maniacs . |
| 15 | She said of the IRA : ‘ I can only think they are a dumping ground for psychotics and maniacs . |
| 16 | The EABA did not want the British fighters eliminating other nations ’ boxers , so ruled they must meet each other first before the survivor boxes against other European nations . |
| 17 | I suddenly realised they did n't like each other ; that they were rivals . |
| 18 | As they drove along Three Springs Road , Juliet suddenly realised they did n't know Miss Rose 's address ! |
| 19 | Often such women have been married to strong , protective men who accepted and possibly even fostered their childish and dependent attitudes to everything in life , and when this support is suddenly withdrawn they feel completely lost . |
| 20 | He only realised they were vibrancers by their costume , for their postures were lax and their hair , unlike the tidy short haircuts of Por Tanssie students , very long . |
| 21 | TSB and Yorkshire , the only other main issuers not to charge fees , merely say they have ‘ no plans as yet ’ to introduce a charge . |
| 22 | Those left standing looked around sheepishly , as though , like Adam and Eve , they suddenly found they were naked and in the open . |
| 23 | There are games in our region and as you rightly say they 're great for us but er I would n't say that they 're Derbies I mean the Derbies are are Birmingham West Brom and West Brom |
| 24 | Part of that would be that they identify that that 's , I 'm going there two years hence that 's the pathway and it 's too late to wait until next January a year from January and suddenly realise they need six G C S E's , a , b , c when they 've lost half their grades on the course work to date . |
| 25 | When astronomers could build a large enough telescope they would see the lunar inhabitants going about their daily lives . |
| 26 | A devil in human form , who cheated Death for centuries unknown ; a man with appetites so base they lay beneath satiation ; a necromancer , torturer of the dead , dismemberer of spirits ; a vileness made flesh ; a wizard , a scholar , a monster . |
| 27 | Experts say chicanes do work but wrongly designed they can speed traffic up . |
| 28 | The final sequence is a familiar bad dream as the family dash in the house and upstairs in the nick of time , only to find they have n't shut the door behind them … |
| 29 | But when it became clear that the disagreement was becoming a hot issue , they gave way … only to find they 'd misinterpreted the producer 's fractured English . |
| 30 | As a left-handed player myself , I had the misfortune and inconvenience of travelling to a professional shop last year only to find they had absolutely no left-handed equipment . |