Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in his time in Egypt , and before that in India , he had met many men of real devotion who yet had done the most terrible things , often in the name of the religion they served . |
| 2 | I can not say at what speed they moved , or how many times she circled the base of the tower , running as if her life depended on it . |
| 3 | They had volunteered and were prepared to masquerade in German uniform , knowing full well the risks they ran if caught . |
| 4 | But they were encouraged to take other risks because their basic business ( lending for house purchase ) was getting unprofitable , because supervision by federal examiners was weak and because federal deposit insurance in effect underwrote any risks they cared to take . |
| 5 | People expect risks they did not ask for and can not control to be much lower -by 10 or 100 times — than those which they run willingly . |
| 6 | Trade unions began , if slowly and unadventurously , to assert that they did n't give a hoot : their members were not going to run risks they did n't like . |
| 7 | Every motion sent her senses reeling , deeper and deeper into the furnace they had entered together , until at last , as she soared to a height of such intensity of feeling that she thought she must burst , something exploded in her brain , and she was awash with the dizzying sensation of all-consuming love . |
| 8 | Essentially , the cases and their history were studied to establish what factors or characteristics they had in common . |
| 9 | It was one of the many characteristics they shared . |
| 10 | Re-entering the cabin , she noticed how it smelled of them , of the mingled scents of their bodies , of the soaps they used , and the sweet , musky afterglow of love . |
| 11 | At first glance they realised that the specimen differed from any meteorites they had ever seen . |
| 12 | He caught the surprised and doubtful glance they exchanged , and went on practically : ‘ I know ! |
| 13 | The glance they exchanged acknowledged as much . |
| 14 | But to everyone 's great disappointment they showed hardly any signs of pleasure . |
| 15 | So a legend which had originated with the attempts of Dark Age royal servants to give their masters a lineage as old and distinguished as that of the Western Roman emperors they had displaced continued in the twelfth century to satisfy the needs of new royal families and even of some princely houses . |
| 16 | He sank back and started to hum and then quietly to sing snatches of endearments from the songs they knew . |
| 17 | As for Pavement , do you know any of the songs they played ? |
| 18 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |
| 19 | But it found 14pc were kept waiting and some respondents said they had not been allowed the music or songs they requested . |
| 20 | The only sour note was when her memories coincided with those of the supporting artistes and she duplicated a couple of songs they had already warbled through . |
| 21 | They sang the songs they learned at school . |
| 22 | I remember the medley of Queen songs they did at Wembley … |
| 23 | After we 'd done five songs they turned the disco on dead loud . ’ |
| 24 | The hall just could n't cope and after six songs they retreated to the dressing room . |
| 25 | They will put up with dreadful weather , poor course conditions , quick hooking , three-putting and a bad elbow , and still enter the bar thinking they enjoyed themselves . |
| 26 | They did not go so far as to learn the language of the peoples they studied , but they did spell out for later writers the ground rules of such research . |
| 27 | For now Great Nations must free themselves by releasing peoples they oppressed , not simply assimilate them , and that would have to include Engels ’ non-historic peoples . |
| 28 | Like all primitive peoples they believed in spirits with influence over human life . |
| 29 | Gascoigne enjoyed good support from Batty , who had another busy game in midfield and rarely allowed the opposition to establish the sort of rhythm they tried to set up at the start , when Boban and Suker tested Woods with low shots after some swift exchanges of passes had succeeded in outmanoeuvring England 's defence . |
| 30 | The raids had been going on for months , but had become increasingly violent : by mid-May they involved border posts being strafed with bullets or set on fire . |