Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 2 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 3 | Two-thirds of a random sample of 54 of those with tinnitus showed that they found it disturbing , 72 per cent experienced it continuously , 18.5 per cent frequently and only 9.25 per cent occasionally . |
| 4 | That er Tess bought and they did it all up . |
| 5 | And they says , Well a person who lived in your flat before you had a telly , you know and they gave me some excuse , you know that the the the person who lived in here before me had ripped them off and they says , How do we know that you 're not that person , you know things like that . |
| 6 | Dai knew only too well that the company mentality was to persevere until they got it right . |
| 7 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 8 | ‘ They 're cheaper to run and they gave us more flexibility on positioning , ’ Wren adds . |
| 9 | Rovers were bubbling and they made it two on 15 minutes . |
| 10 | It 's like those bags I mean le I mean I 'd go if they bought me one of those bags . |
| 11 | Thomas Huxley , the great biologist , whose household was dominated by a long series of cats over a period of forty years , described how one of them , a young tabby tom-cat , developed the alarming game of jumping on the shoulders of his dinner-guests and refusing to dismount until they fed him some titbit . |
| 12 | She opened her window and screamed and erm , of course the neighbours come but they was gone and they took it all they 're gold she had it on in bed , pulled it over husband neck , . |
| 13 | Carers were asked whether they found it difficult to cope with any of the tasks they performed . |
| 14 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 15 | I would n't care if they made me dazed |
| 16 | She often shrewdly suspected that they found it hard work too , and that for all their signatures of fondest love they did not really like her ; they wanted her , they thought that she would do , but they did not really like her . |
| 17 | Meantime Berndt gushed with the oil of social graces , pouring her a glass of wine she had no intention of drinking , ( she remembered the Tjerssens as Friend had shown her them , smiling as they gave you ruby venom ) , pouting when she refused his macaroons . |