Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 Erm , and so , but we do need to do that , and I believe the work that you have been doing erm , I do n't know when that 's to be published , er , but will I 'm sure assist us in developing the criteria which will help voluntary organisations to decide what they properly should be doing .
2 The Randalstown club came ever so close to taking the title for the first time , and had they done so they arguably would have been the first second division club to win Ireland 's blue riband team championship .
3 Hence the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act of 1970 expects local authorities to provide a range and scale of services that in practice they rarely can .
4 In elaborating all the benefits that this will produce , the company starts saying things like ‘ end users at workstations in an SNA network can have quick and easy execution of socket applications like Network File System ( NFS ) ’ which almost implies that an SNA application user will be able to access Unix file systems — they assuredly will not .
5 Oh we used to work er f er six days a week , er all day Saturdays erm eight to eight and er eight till eight at n at er eight till seven at night or er or eight till eight at erm most shifts was early , they used to have a a an hour er an hour break of a dinner time er sometimes they only used to have half an hour at night because , I mean well once you 've got er y y you was there , once you get you shift done it was no good sitting there doing for an hour and er it , it varies on what production what was wanted and how far advanced you was or how far behind you was , you know , but er the average hours was as I say was ten hours a shift that was working shift , you worked ten hours and then a break in between , ten minutes , half an hour
6 And er well you go further through and you can go to the erm And the the Narrowmarsh it was narrow and all , you could shake hands with one another o off the but it now is all council houses is built down there now where they only used to be ordinary little houses .
7 And they do actually now add , they only used to give you Italian terms , they 've now add added quite a lot of the French ones and the German ones .
8 They only used to ever lock the door from the outside and er I er had to make er fifty and as I say , number them one up to fifty and er then they 'd perhaps on a odd occasion they sent me an order for one , the number the number
9 Then you had a a spare man what you sent over the harvest , which you hired for a a month of occasionally they only used to come by the day .
10 They only will stand for the same , I do n't think they 're going to stand for the same conditions
11 But , the heavens opened as it seems they only can when the British take to the outdoors in mid-summer .
12 Ninety percent of them said yes , that it depends on how you present the figures , so in actual fact I wonder how our tenant farmers all of a sudden find themselves in a position that they perhaps would rather sign a petition and not put their heads above the parapet bearing in mind you are in a community , bear in mind you are connected , bear in mind that your livelihood is with those others and I have to say it is true that a certain business in my area connected with farming has been threatened .
13 They know he 's not gon na be there for for ever , I E you know , he 'll want to move on or they perhaps will move on .
14 So out you go You know people initially work using networks , and then if they do n't have somebody that corresponds to something which they 've got to do then they perhaps will phone the university or the poly and say , ‘ Have you got anyone that knows anything about jam fritters or whatever it is , we want to do a piece because it 's current , ’ and somebody 's unearthed in that particular way .
15 they perhaps could 've gone towards more
16 Accordingly , their Lordships did not agree with counsel that if the jury convicted the first appellant upon the basis that he was guilty as actor , they necessarily should have acquitted the second appellant .
17 Yeah tried to do and they obviously ca n't .
18 Cos if you said erm answer in complete sentences they obviously would n't get two marks you see ?
19 Well , I think sometimes , I , at at home , erm , if I 'm , particularly if I 'm typing , I like music , and if the phone goes , people must wonder what on earth it is , because there 's music going on somewhere , which they obviously can hear in the background , but I like , I like that as a background .
20 I mean they all ought to be geared up for all this for Christ 's sake .
21 They all used to hang out there and quite a scene had developed Some of it had to do with it being the antithesis of the whole trash/sleaze thing that was going down at the start of the seventies .
22 Marty and Jean who ran Granny Takes A Trip were mates of Malcolm 's and they all used to meet up after work in the pub Sometimes Nick would be there too and we got talking to him .
23 They look better They all used to be one colour before but we 've now extended the range and so they 've put them in different colour bottles .
24 And then in the streets , there was no electric lights in the street , they all used to be gas .
25 They alone would not be enough to account for the clumpiness on intermediate scales that studies of the sky reveal ; but there is a way to amplify their effects .
26 From their letter , Mr Scott and Mr Waterman would have people believe that they alone will ‘ pick up the pieces ’ .
27 Black workers in this dispute have learned that because of their lack of numbers they alone can not defeat their employers .
28 Yet we saw in Chapter 1 that plants are the source of almost all life on Earth ; they alone can create the organic molecules which the animals consume .
29 Teachers are told that what they do is vitally important , that they alone can translate and extend the National Curriculum into rich comprehensive learning opportunities and at the same time that they can not be trusted to do the job .
30 Their efforts at this stage should be channelled to the creative work they alone can tackle .
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