Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ASIANS are being asked to recall how they successfully adapted to British life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ALTHOUGH they eventually succumbed by five wickets , Scotland can take heart from yesterday 's performance in Stellenbosch against a team which included two Warwickshire players , and one of Kenya 's top pace bowlers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was now 9.00am , they only had about one hour 's fuel left , enough for 180 miles at the most . |
| 8 | They only mated with each other — the old ones went into mourning if a child dared to marry out . |
| 9 | There was no board outside proclaiming it to be a guest house , or hotel , so if it was n't , and they only took in private guests , or friends , she could hardly go dumping herself on them just on the recommendation of someone called Annie , could she ? |
| 10 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 11 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 12 | If you can manage to get one photo of a gunmen in all that crowd , how many more were there they did n't get a photo of you know , erm , so that 's bull shit for a start the said that they only fired upon identified targets , going on motorbikes , and erm , I mean the thing is , the para 's are a highly disciplined , highly trained apparently at a you were n't even allowed to go out there without at least five years experience yeah , they were soldiers , they need and I ca n't believe that they negligibly you know , cos there was women and children there , and nearly all of them had wives and kids , you know , and there was reports from like the Irish saying oh yeah , they were mixing body er , care and body people and fucking laughing and joking over dead bodies and my old man said yeah if you just , if you just seen something drop most people will laugh and joke about it , you know I do n't know if you 've ever meet this sort of , old man , but the service sort of a , a unique sense of they can laugh at anything , you know they can see somebody with its guts put out in front of them and they 'll fucking crack out about it , its the only way they can stop themselves cracking up , or fucking crying sort of thing . |
| 13 | In order to find examples of such an antithetical state of affairs they naturally turned to primitive society , as they assumed , like many before and after them , that these societies would offer illustrations of systems as totally different to those they knew as could be found anywhere . |
| 14 | So in 1877 the men at the Middleton Iron Company were given their notice , though they stubbornly clung to short-time employment until 1883 when the plant was shut down completely until 1897 . |
| 15 | The new biblical critics did not destroy the faith : they merely forced on intelligent people the distinction between history and church doctrine . |
| 16 | They just looked like basic socks to him . |
| 17 | ‘ Police blocked farmers from coming inside and they just stood in front shouting and calling messages over a loud hailer . ’ |
| 18 | The ‘ old gang ’ , as they soon became in Fascist terminology , held the strings of patronage . |
| 19 | Dedicated courtiers , undistracted by families , they soon rose to powerful positions , first in Mameluk Egypt , then in Ottoman Turkey , but most prominently of all in Mughal India . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And they still relied on traditional arguments about the authority of Scripture in order to establish certain beliefs that were ‘ above ’ although not ‘ contrary to ’ reason , for instance resurrection of the dead . |
| 22 | 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 . ’ |
| 23 | The grass they always lay on parched yellow . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ Wherever we aimed , they always fired in another direction , ’ Nicholas said . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Which , of course , they once said about pop music . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | George and the twins dared not venture near it except in the broadest of daylight and even then they usually fled at first sight of it . |
| 30 | On 8 May they formally surrendered to 78 Infantry Division , commanded by Maj-Gen Arbuthnott . |