Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] they [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least the British players demonstrated that they fully deserved to be on the same court — much against many people 's expectations . |
| 2 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 3 | I have used this set-up to photograph cichlids , but I found that they invariably show their fright colours and not their lovely breeding colours . |
| 4 | Friedman 's doctors found that they often needed to confront the patients with their underlying hostility . |
| 5 | She tried to pin her thoughts elsewhere , but found that they always boomeranged back . |
| 6 | I myself did not know anything about this and having checked with Gillyan Ford and all Publicity Assistants , found that they too had had no previous indication of the requirement to scan adverts . |
| 7 | The guide 's eyebrows rose until they almost met his hairline . |
| 8 | Higher social groups appeared to make more use of health services in relation to need however ( Brotherston 1976 ; Forster 1976 ) and research published shortly after the Black Report argued that they also obtained a disproportionate share of NHS resources when ill ( Le Grand 1982 ) . |
| 9 | He said that he respected the views of his colleagues at SO , but added that they obviously had taken their decision on the information they had , while the SSO was still in the process of getting information from the management about the proposal . |
| 10 | He had felt the need , though , to take into account the super-sensitive relations between these two teams , and if the biggest surprise was that he had addressed gentle caution to the English management as well , they having been innocent , faraway onlookers during the shenanigans , it was because he recognised that they too nursed feelings of exasperation and he imagined that they might soon have burst uncontrollably into flames . |
| 11 | With my feet frozen to the floor , I followed the red lights in the sky until they both disappeared and the two loud bangs which followed signified that they too had come down heavily somewhere . |
| 12 | 1 noticed that they frequently lost interest during bulletins when political activities and speeches were reported or some official announcement was made . |
| 13 | When I enlarged and looked more closely at some of the diagrams in the book , I noticed that they also carried marks indicating where an Edwardian cyclist would have encountered a crossroad , a sharp bend , even a humpback bridge . |
| 14 | He noticed that they continually moved in a zigzag fashion . |
| 15 | Over 90 per cent stated that they frequently supervised and assisted small groups of children engaged in educational activities set by the teacher , and encouraged children by offering appropriate attention and by showing interest in their activities . |
| 16 | A spokesman confirmed that they probably come from the Bremen Kunstverein , from which fifty paintings , 1,715 drawings and 3,000 prints went missing at the end of the war , and that experts are still examining them . |
| 17 | They declared that they both agreed on the need for further reductions in their respective nuclear stockpiles , but that they had not yet agreed on which types of weapons should be reduced and the speed of reductions . |
| 18 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 19 | People who claimed that they generally did not dream , when woken from REM sleep , did in fact report dreams , but they were particularly prone to forgetting them — if woken after the REM period was over , they recalled even fewer instances of dreaming than those who claimed regularly to recall dreams in the morning.6 In another study generally confirming these findings it was also noticed that " non-dreamers " tended to report that they were awake and thinking when woken from REM sleep . |
| 20 | Bouchard 's studies of identical twins separated at birth and brought up in different countries , classes and cultures , showed that they still shared similarities in actions and habits despite separation . |
| 21 | No doubt people reckoned that they only needed one pair of sheets , but they were wrong . |
| 22 | The risk of litigation was pointed out , but the firm replied that they now intended to release the tenancy ‘ with or without the consent of the surviving partner ’ , and did so . |
| 23 | His wife , Sarah , was also a canoeist before they met but they now face the problem of babysitters for their two youngsters . |
| 24 | The distance learning materials do not always reach the students when needed , and a survey indicated that they rarely received more than one visit a year from their supervisor because of the shortage of transport . |
| 25 | Of the three informants ( 10% ) who marked it , at this late stage , as an SF element , two indicated that they only read a small amount of SF , and the other said that she never read anything of the genre . |
| 26 | Still , their very size guaranteed that they also contained a very large number and substantial proportion of the middle and lower middle classes — say between 20 and 23 per cent in both London and Paris . |
| 27 | I discovered that they virtually ran a bird hospital and I was soon bringing them more casualties and learning a lot of useful things about bird-keeping and care . |
| 28 | This impressive record began when they both joined in 1950 , Alex as a bank boy in the Wilton department and Jean as a trainee in Spool Setting . |
| 29 | The Serbian Volunteers were a force recruited under the puppet government of Gen Nedic to serve Serbian interests , although this meant that they frequently had to act in concert with the Germans . |
| 30 | Yet this meant that they also wanted to transcend the limitations of the Greek achievement in the light of the new faith . |