Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Second Duma , although their urban vote held up , they fared much less well at the hands of more politically-conscious peasants , they failed dismally to attract working-class support , and their representation fell by half . |
| 2 | Once a week they met together to discuss , with one of the periti , matters then under debate in the Basilica . |
| 3 | It says of this charismatic community that they met constantly to pray , to break bread , to hear the apostles teach and to share their common life together . |
| 4 | They were friends and they expected never to see each other again . |
| 5 | In between excessive laughter I noticed that not only were SCUM CRAP at the back but they got completely pissed on by the Turkish Delights : - ) ) ) ) ) |
| 6 | I 'd laugh if they got fucking beaten up ! |
| 7 | The event had been going through a lean period and had degenerated into a glorified booze-up , but there were some who were interested in keeping it alive and they got together to decide if they were going to let it go or make an effort to put it on its feet again . |
| 8 | At the June elections , for the first time ever , they got together to block roads and occupy sites , demanding more land , and money for bilingual education . |
| 9 | Last week they got so fed up with commuters crowding round their screens to find out the train times — because the computer board was n't working — they just switched them all off . |
| 10 | Yes but , yes but you see they got so mixed up that the , |
| 11 | They got there did n't they ? |
| 12 | there 's times when they got back look is n't it ? |
| 13 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 14 | Oh we were look through all the magazines and they got really stressed out and told us to get out . |
| 15 | They doubled up laughing . |
| 16 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 17 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 18 | Between November 1981 and November 1983 , encouragement was given to unemployed men over the age of 60 to withdraw from the labour force by offering to pay them the long-term rate of supplementary benefit if they agreed not to register as unemployed . |
| 19 | Welcoming " the important changes " in South Africa in the previous 20 months , they agreed unanimously to lift some sanctions immediately . |
| 20 | In particular , they became increasingly worried about two things . |
| 21 | Although many of the great scientists and philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century were Christians , they became increasingly attached to the supremacy of reason . |
| 22 | The half-boiled storyline could have been poached from a hundred different games : Dizzy and Daisy were in the Enchanted Forest collecting cherries when they became hopelessly lost . |
| 23 | They became widely separated as they struggled up the slope . |
| 24 | Local authorities have had powers of this nature for many years ( the origin was the 1932 Planning Act ) , but it was not until the property boom of the early 1970s that they became widely used . |
| 25 | In extreme cases they became simply receiving institutions for classes of paupers with little hope . |
| 26 | They gathered themselves and began to walk , their steps light though at first a little unsure , until they became more used to the uneven pace . |
| 27 | They became collectively known as the Brat Pack because , like the original Rat Pack , these young actors tended to work together as an ensemble . |
| 28 | They became so engrossed in their chattering , that they did not notice a customer who came up behind them . |
| 29 | They all agreed to this , and they became so occupied looking for ivy on the walls alongside the lane that they did n't see two boys suddenly come racing round the bend just by Miss Miggs 's cottage . |
| 30 | They became so celebrated that they were disturbed by tourists . |