Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing had gone on so long they 'd actually retired from nursing . |
| 2 | Perhaps they had only lived in London because he had thought it was what she wanted . |
| 3 | So they 've actually got to be making something that 's that can be sold or can be sold in the near future if they . |
| 4 | For some centuries , natural law theories have provided political and social groups , as well as individuals , with justifications for their actions ( Bloch , 1961 ) but for even longer they have also contributed to an understanding and legitimation of institutions such as the church , the monarchy and the state . |
| 5 | His smiles , his glances , his gentle intimacies … somehow they had all seemed to be pointing in that direction . |
| 6 | Possibly they had all gone off looking for help but I found the child and I cradled the child round my neck with some sort of rag and headed off back to Basra . |
| 7 | Hence they have only contributed in a limited way to post-war housing , but they have been a major feature of a commitment to planned decentralization , even though , as Aldridge ( 1979 ) concludes , by the end it was a programme without a policy . |
| 8 | ‘ Had to go and leave my dandelions to look for you , now they 've all gone to sleep . ’ |
| 9 | Now they have finally agreed to an Ulster Branch request for an evening fixture and will fly into the province immediately after wrapping up the English part of their trip on the previous Wednesday . |
| 10 | In the past there would have been a major famine ; now they have simply called on their own 30-million-ton reserve of wheat . |
| 11 | But so far they have all fallen on stony ground . |
| 12 | Since the new classical macroeconomics is grounded in old classical macroeconomics in its emphasis on the role of real wage adjustments in accounting for variations in employment , presumably they have also taken on board that essential element of the classical theory of employment , the marginal productivity theory of the demand for labour ( see Chapter 2 ) . |
| 13 | Er , that they 've either got to , well they 've preferably got to be bought rather than , just |
| 14 | Maybe they had already got to me . |
| 15 | Sometimes they feel so goaded by their child that they lapse into hitting and shouting . |
| 16 | ‘ In October 1991 , when the local authority negotiated a long-term foster home placement in Windsor it seems reasonable to suppose then they had already embarked on a plan to move towards adoption . |
| 17 | And then they had all hooted with laughter and teased him mercilessly when they 'd arrived , because she had n't been seen all evening and they knew he was deeply disappointed . |
| 18 | They , it 's always argued that the parish councils are closest to local people , they had an out and out objection from the Parish Council initially they have subsequently written to me twice in November moderating that position and saying subject to safeguards they they no longer have an outright objection . |
| 19 | And yet they had never spoken of their father 's death . |
| 20 | Recently they have both played in a major revival of The School for Scandal and have toured the Near and Far East . |