Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With them eventually came dashing British sports , like steeple chasing , cricket , golf and fox-hunting , the last of which had runs in the nearby countryside called ‘ Old England ’ , ‘ Leicestershire ’ and , best of all , as a concession to the French , ‘ Have Leicestershire ’ . |
| 2 | The air between them suddenly seemed static , as she fought for the words to justify her decision . |
| 3 | ‘ So one of them suddenly got rich , hey ? |
| 4 | And Karen last weekend , after you were sitting for them suddenly took ill on the Saturday I think , and Sheila was n't in any great shape , so he went back home er , from the office an over his lunch hour to see if he could just go and lend a hand , ge generally help out over his lunch hour . |
| 5 | The 1982 and 1984 BCS between them only uncovered two cases of attempted rape and 17 and 18 sexual assaults respectively ( Jones et al . |
| 6 | One man was outside , two were sitting inside , the men were completely black , so black trousers , black hats and they had a black cape over it , over their faces so you could n't see who they were , and one of them just had this gun in his hand , and fired at this Citroen here located . |
| 7 | However it is clear that these students who did not meet the GER had passed through a rigorous process of selection , and a number of them already had two A-level at the time of entry . |
| 8 | The fact that most of them already had criminal records was widely publicised and used as evidence of their guilt in the Chai Qing Feng case . |
| 9 | A follow-up study showed that very few of them ever had any higher ambition for using the money than buying a house or two for the family and perhaps a shop or pub . |
| 10 | One of them still had two or three mouthfuls of wine in it . |
| 11 | In 1806 a handful of major companies — the Sun Fire Office ( 1710 ) , the Royal Exchange Assurance ( 1721 ) and the Phoenix Fire Office ( 1782 ) — between them still transacted 60 per cent of fire insurance . |
| 12 | The two environmentalist parties ( the Greens led by Antoine Waechter and Génération Ecologie led by Environment Minister Brice Lalonde ) between them also polled 13.9 per cent of the vote . |
| 13 | Look what happened last year when the three of them nearly went bankrupt . |
| 14 | She said they mostly wore silky slips and dressing-gowns . |
| 15 | Steam sprinklers were introduced and on the first day of their operation , they successfully doused another fire that would have probably removed the remainder of the factory had it taken hold . |
| 16 | A spell of seven games without a win has seen the Goodison club tumble from seventh to 16th place in a month and , Beardsley apart , they rarely looked likely to trouble the supremely confident United , beaten only once in their last eight games . |
| 17 | With five regulars missing they rarely tested former colleague Woods in the Wednesday goal and it was Sheridan , another of Hillsborough 's former Forest contingent , who set them on the way to victory . |
| 18 | This was fodder for the trainees , and they rarely got much else . |
| 19 | If they rarely had much chance in the more skilled manual jobs , unless apprenticed to some craft at home , they were probably better off than the poorest of the city-born . |
| 20 | More than this , even with earlier memories they rarely made any systematic attempt to gather evidence of later life from childhood memories about grandparents or old people in the neighbourhood . |
| 21 | Their social and economic pre-eminence was just beginning to seem more precarious and they wholeheartedly welcomed vigorous confirmation of the regime 's commitment to the status quo . |
| 22 | One night they secretly told all employees , except Peter to leave early . |
| 23 | Boosted by that success , Scotland looked for more , and they duly obliged three minutes into the second half when Paul Telfer 's flag-kick was met by Duncan Ferguson 's deadly forehead , the ball speeding past a bemused Tony Mallia . |
| 24 | They duly reappointed old friends , and the Bank 's already notable tendency to fiefs and feudalism was reinforced . |
| 25 | Quite a few were still fairly young and felt that the pension would be better cashed and put into the farm if they eventually became full-time farmers . |
| 26 | They were ‘ uncomfortable and unreliable ’ and they eventually became uneconomical to run . |
| 27 | In 1875 , however , they eventually defied public criticism and family opposition , and married in Switzerland where , under Swiss law , their marriage was legal . |
| 28 | They eventually overcame dogged youngsters Ben Lees and Paul Willman of Rhoson-Sea in another demanding three set marathon . |
| 29 | They eventually lost that game although the 3–1 scoreline does n't tell the full story of bad luck and missed chances . |
| 30 | Their programme opened with a performance of Beethoven 's Opus 18 no. 6 Quartet in which , with impeccable balance , they delicately explored all the works ' subtle nuances . |