Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore they behave like words in that they are always used together in appropriate contexts and they appear to be represented as words in the mental lexicon ( Wilson , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | He looked at Arkhina , and suddenly they clung to one another and laughed . |
| 3 | But suddenly they looked like two strangers . |
| 4 | I felt the tears welling up in my eyes and suddenly they spilled over the sides and dripped down my cheeks . |
| 5 | They were now proceeding up a driveway bordered on each side by shrubs : and then quite suddenly they emerged into an open area . |
| 6 | Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain , ripped free from their mountings and crashed to the ground . |
| 7 | People see me in a certain way at school , as someone outspoken and good at English ; then they see me with my head covered , and suddenly they seem to be thinking : submissive . |
| 8 | I do n't care if they go out with a different girl every day of the week as well as me , but suddenly they want to be the one and only . ’ |
| 9 | At the IX Party Congress that year , both Ion Maurer and Alexandru Bârladeanu emphasized in their speeches to the delegates how much they owed to Nicolae Ceauşescu 's inspiration . |
| 10 | How far they were supreme in any new and unprecedented sense , whether their advance can be termed revolutionary , how much they owed to the innovatory genius of Thomas Cromwell are questions still open to dispute . |
| 11 | The Ashleys fully appreciated how much they owed to Sybille and treated her with great respect and kindness ; faux pas , which from other members of staff would have met with icy reproofs , went scarcely noticed . |
| 12 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 13 | No matter how much they eat of their current food , they just ca n't get enough energy from it . |
| 14 | If they should chance to be black , brown or yellow , of any cultural tradition save that of the West and dominated by any other ideological system except that of the student 's own parents they will seldom if ever protest , no matter how flagrant the injustice , how onerous the oppression , how unprincipled the exploitation and how ever much they offend against the protesters ' vociferously expressed and allegedly ‘ sincere ’ ideals . |
| 15 | In one key experiment , for example , we trained over a hundred birds , measuring their imprinting preference score and motor activity ( that is , how much they ran in the wheels ) as well as RNA synthesis . |
| 16 | Nobody knew how much they burrowed into one 's past , and this ignorance coupled with a fear of being rejected by the Legion was enough to make most people tell the truth . |
| 17 | Not being musically inclined , I had no idea how much they meant to him , and I 've subsequently spent about 3 weeks in the dog house . |
| 18 | With push and pull toys the children experience weight in a very practical way when deciding what and how much they put into a pram or trolley to push . |
| 19 | To set incentives and to monitor their impact requires reliable measures of what waste is produced and where : the next article examines how far countries agree on what counts as waste , and how much they know about its origins and destiny . |
| 20 | I wonder how much they know about their parents and grandparents . |
| 21 | The Dos Quiz is a useful way for beginners to find out just how much they know after reading all the MS-DOS bibles . |
| 22 | But none of the regional clubs will quantify how much they earn from the lucrative Clubcall telephone commentaries . |
| 23 | Charles Davenant observed in 1710 , " what near Resemblance there was between the Old Rumper , and the Modern Whig ( for a Child will be like his true Father ) and how much they agreed in their Insolence to the Throne , Notions in Religion , Principles as to Government " . |
| 24 | The whole ritual took most of them half an hour though there were always a few that gossiped so much they had to be nagged by their Head Girl . |
| 25 | She went back into the lounge and sat with Fritz , finding out how remarkably much they had in common , until they were joined by Rosa and other friends and spent two magical hours until , at 10.00 , she stood up . |
| 26 | Additionally , many single people admit that they had not realised before how much they relied on their job for companionship and sometimes , even for part of their week-end social life . |
| 27 | ‘ Doc was a bully with the players , he treated them like dirt , ’ claimed Crerand adding that several players disliked him so much they threatened to ‘ do ’ him . |
| 28 | For example , in a survey I carried out on the membership of the National Trust — one of the largest voluntary associations in Britain with over a million and a quarter members — it was decided that topics should include such things as how people came to join , how they felt about the payment of subscriptions , how much they read of the literature the Trust sent them , what their main interests in conservation were , how active a part they wanted to play in the work of the Trust , and so on . |
| 29 | For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Find out how much they charge for water . |