Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There existed other newspapers aimed at the European market , such as the daily Tanganyika Opinion and the weekly Tanganyika Advertiser , but their circulations were low and they mostly disappeared long before independence . |
| 2 | And and or or remained stationary but they mostly went up a copper or so every and this was er a real thorn in the side of the employers you know , they wanted to get rid of this and they could n't . |
| 3 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
| 4 | There was no need for them to be imported to Britain since they mostly came from countries which were capable of developing their own waste-disposal programmes . |
| 5 | She said they mostly wore silky slips and dressing-gowns . |
| 6 | Oh yes Dan used to stand outside calling er get your nice steak or get your nice egg bun and all this , they mostly had barkers , and it was competition you see between the , there was er Smiths the pork butchers , erm Cliffs the pork butchers , that was nearly by McMillans that were I forget and there used to be Olivers shoe shop round there and a Mr used to erm I do n't know whether you 've heard of Percy , no , and erm his father used to manage it and erm behind the Angel Alley you know the Angel Alley , well that was down shop there , and then there were several maid shops and there was the erm grocers , that 's er before you turn o that 's on the same side as Street , it , is it , is it Moors in Street , there 's a hardware shop on the corner now straight in the market place ? |
| 7 | In the evenings they mostly camped . |
| 8 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
| 9 | With rapid depletion of fertility in the Tidewater land many settlers moved onto the Piedmont where they mostly repeated their mistakes . |
| 10 | There were Polish and Dutch boats as well as the Scottish , but they mostly packed their catch to take home . |
| 11 | They mostly consisted of Camberwell students . |
| 12 | What they mostly overlooked was the possibility of using state power to allocate credit to specific sectors — shipbuilding in Korea , for example , or steel in Taiwan — or for special groups of borrowers — the chaebol and more recently the smaller , export-oriented Korean firms . |
| 13 | In their art they combined perspective with drawing ‘ by eye ’ ; they instinctively knew when to follow the rules and when to break them . |
| 14 | They would lie for hours , hardly moving , before a sudden noise startled them and they instinctively dived for cover . |
| 15 | Side by side with the suspicion that Masailand somehow emasculated its administrators , there grew up in East Africa a conviction that the proud Masai could be successfully handled only by the finest type of Englishman , whose qualities of honesty and good judgement they instinctively recognized and respected . |
| 16 | Unscrupulous manipulation of constituency boundaries gave them even more of the seats in the Stormont Parliament than they properly deserved , but this gerrymandering was unnecessary . |
| 17 | Together they successfully masterminded the acquisition and distribution of British and American hard currency , with which they bought Croatian fodder to feed the Swiss cows donated to Austria which then provided free milk . |
| 18 | In August 1980 they successfully tested the conversion on a private railway in Somerset . |
| 19 | Others soon followed : Shaba , Morani , Rongai , Amboni ; and in time they successfully mated and produced still more rhinos . |
| 20 | By then , however , such was the devastation of churches and church lands that although the York clergy granted a tenth , which was to be collected in two instalments during 1317 ( a delay eloquent of their difficulties ) , they successfully insisted on a revised valuation of their livings : instead of the tenth being levied on the 1291 valor , compiled before the Scottish war began , it was to be calculated according to the true current valuation of livings , a reduced level which endured for the rest of the Middle Ages . |
| 21 | They successfully politicised lived experiences of women in such a way that their concerns came to be seen as the concerns of Labour . |
| 22 | Another achievement , which both Christine and Bernie are proud of , is the ban on hunting on council-owned land that they successfully campaigned for back in 1982 . |
| 23 | The big Gloucester builder was so badly battered in the World Cup campaign that he had to take six months off work — and he and self-employed forward Paul Rendall lost so much money that they successfully appealed for a hardship payment . |
| 24 | Two years later they successfully appealed against the ruling in the High Court … and now Mr Gilberthorpe 's been told he 's too late bring the case to court again . |
| 25 | ASIANS are being asked to recall how they successfully adapted to British life . |
| 26 | The employment of clerks in the Forest administration was anathema to the leaders of the English clergy : they successfully opposed Passelewe 's preferment beyond the archdeaconry of Lewes . |
| 27 | This forced the purse-seine fleet to fish outside the eastern Pacific and they successfully caught tuna without encircling dolphins . |
| 28 | They successfully diversified their economies through structural reform and sound macroeconomic management . |
| 29 | Creeping around from hangar to hangar and dodging patrolling sentries they successfully ensured the destruction of several more aircraft , brand-new crated engines and machinery . |
| 30 | During the campaign for elections to the European Parliament ( EP ) in June 1989 [ see pp. 36737 ; 36874-75 ] they successfully capitalized on opposition to controversial proposals that foreigners should be enfranchised for local elections throughout European Community ( EC ) member states . |