Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only time they spoke was to quarrel , and in the dressing room and round the dining-room at the Benson 's Theatre Home from Home they rarely sat beside each other . |
| 2 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 3 | Whereas they eventually came to some agreement over the various ‘ courses ’ , they argued vehemently over Elisabeth 's insistence that the recital should both begin and close with Strauss 's Morgen . |
| 4 | Two or three months prior to the Dams Raid , when the new squadron was being formed in the spring of 1943 , ground crew personnel from all over Bomber Command were selected and sent to Scampton , the best men at their respective jobs , for what they only knew at that time was going to be one special operation . |
| 5 | They only mated with each other — the old ones went into mourning if a child dared to marry out . |
| 6 | Although they began to be replaced in the more advanced parts of China by bronze coins by the middle of the first millennium B.C. , they still circulated in some provinces at the time of Marco Polo 's visit during the late thirteenth century . |
| 7 | Even as he was preparing to uproot millions of peasants and to destroy their homes , Ceauşescu praised their patriotism in terms ringing with irony : ‘ In the toughest times , their forefathers did not desert the land where they were born , but in brotherhood with it , with the mountains , fields , rivers and great woods , they unflinchingly remained in these parts , defending their being , their right to free existence . ’ |
| 8 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 9 | ‘ Wherever we aimed , they always fired in another direction , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 10 | A very fine thing , and you know until er until the day I left in nineteen forty two they always referred to these chaps in the forties like say I was , er a as being er , Ooh he 's a man . |
| 11 | Then they 'll be put on show in what we call habitat displays ' so that all the people of America who wo n't ever come here will be able to see them iii our nation 's capital just as they once lived in these jungles . |
| 12 | So they , they welcomed the idea of a separation of powers but they also insisted on another principle , probably the most important principle of American government , and that is the principle of federalism . |
| 13 | They also called on both sides to refrain from military actions which could threaten the prospects for peace . |
| 14 | They also liaised with each other , their supervisor and the research team . |
| 15 | Next in was Ocean Quest on 11 December , with a time of 16 days , 10 hr , 9 min and 22 sec , but they also motored for many hours . |
| 16 | When I went to Webber Douglas they practically fell on any man as a rare species . |
| 17 | They both accounted for this outcome in terms of the rigidity of the block contracts they had been recommended to make by the regional health authority . |
| 18 | Although Tocqueville and Marx emphasized different features in the development of European and North American societies in the nineteenth century , they both recognized in some way the interplay of economic and political forces : Tocqueville by associating democracy with the values of an agricultural and commercial middle-class society , and by noting the possible implications of the incipient class divisions within manufacturing industry ; Marx by giving prominence to the political struggles of the working class as a movement to extend democracy , whether in his account ( in 1852 ) of the Chartist demand for universal suffrage as being , if realized , ‘ a far more socialist measure than anything which has been honoured with that name on the Continent ’ , or in his later analysis of the Paris Commune ( 1871 ) as a new form of democratic government , as ‘ the political form at last discovered under which to work out the emancipation of labour ’ . |
| 19 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 20 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 21 | They even parachuted in some agents . |
| 22 | Mrs Bradshaw had met my mother a couple of times and they plainly approved of each other . |
| 23 | They again fell against each other , their laughter mingling , and Victoria , her voice firm now , said , ‘ He 's bound to be on his way out , if he has n't gone already , and so go on up , do your duty and leave the rest to me . ’ |
| 24 | But they never thought in those terms . |
| 25 | They went a little while ago , apart from that they never came on this end |
| 26 | no I suppose , it could be painted on could n't it ? , they never bothered with these lady did they ? , cos its modern i n't it , modern made |
| 27 | I would like to record that they tried to cheer each other up in their double misery , but I 'm afraid the truth is that as far as I know they never spoke to each other again . |
| 28 | They therefore called on all parties to co-operate in allowing the safe passage of aid [ see p. 39225 for Somalia aid crisis ] . |
| 29 | Mm was that all they actually did during those war years there just repairing the aircraft |
| 30 | She and Sting were still on good terms — they actually sat beside each other throughout the court case , exchanging pleasantries . |