Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the speaker frequently repeats the same syntactic form several times over , as this fairground inspector does : I look at fire extinguishers + I look at fire exits + I look at what gangways are available + I look at electric cables what + are they properly earthed + are they properly covered |
| 2 | the speaker frequently repeats the same syntactic form several times over , as this fairground inspector does : I look at fire extinguishers + I look at fire exits + I look at what gangways are available + I look at electric cables what + are they properly earthed + are they properly covered |
| 3 | Are they properly protected ? ’ |
| 4 | The Sunshine Girls were the only troupe to travel as far as St Petersburg and Budapest but it was noticeable that they rarely worked at the Winter Gardens which was Jennie 's stronghold . |
| 5 | The SFO had alleged that they secretly arranged for their own companies to buy shares , thereby raising the take-up level announced to other investors . |
| 6 | What they most prized was the untitled Freedom of Bristol which was accorded to them and to two more of their relations . |
| 7 | In a poll , published last week , asking voters to rank in order of priority the issues they most wanted discussed during the election campaign , unemployment came top by a long way , followed by worries about the funding of the badly-indebted State pension and social security fund , and then education and training . |
| 8 | When asked to identify what they most liked about their Clios , the answers given by customers were as follows : |
| 9 | We got together a jury of 13 good hairdressers and asked them to nominate the hairdresser they most admired . |
| 10 | As might be anticipated , this primordial zero-point represented the antithesis of almost everything they most cherished . |
| 11 | For a start , the weather was atrocious when they most needed to acclimatize , and in their first seven weeks they had only seventeen days of cricket . |
| 12 | They had entered into complex calculations , weighing up the potential loss of both short- and long-term benefits against the extra cash in their pay packets and had decided to maximise their already low pay at the time they most needed it . |
| 13 | Up to the early 1960s not many academic contestants had climbed into the ring and when they did so they most failed to deliver a telling punch and lost the fight in the opening rounds on a technical knock-out . |
| 14 | It was a celebration of their talents because , by being confined — so to speak — to those steps which they most enjoyed and thus performed best , they positively sparkled . |
| 15 | " When asked " Were they forcibly evicted , or did they go of their own free will ? " he answered " Some left voluntarily owing to the poor markets . " |
| 16 | In the circumstances in which they were used they powerfully augmented other forces of change by providing data on the state of society at a period when so little was known . |
| 17 | Only when employees own part of their company are they justifiably entitled to a share of the profit . |
| 18 | Mandy was 19 when they eventually married in 1989 . |
| 19 | It was true that they only charged ‘ a nickel , five pennies , a half a dime ’ . |
| 20 | he only done , they only done that to learn you a lesson . |
| 21 | No , they , they only done that because it would 've been hard for us I think , in the |
| 22 | Well , they had to , they only raced at Newmarket . |
| 23 | I just feel that to rely on Stafford to them in there is , they only run A L O courses a year |
| 24 | ‘ 1966 , ’ he replied , ‘ when they only used to show the important ones — the ones that really mattered . |
| 25 | but erm , does n't have they only had the white ones , so I think I might go to Waitrose , not Waitrose , erm , might get up early tomorrow and go to erm , what 's it called , erm , Sainsburys , yeah . |
| 26 | And why , they do n't need to think about it , they can talk you out of it , they only got ta go ! |
| 27 | Had they only known … |
| 28 | And it was a challenge they eagerly accepted . |
| 29 | Were they so committed to their cause that the thought did n't bother them , like the Japanese . |
| 30 | Or are they so cluttered up that there is n't any real space to work on ? |