Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] they [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philippa was ousted by her uncle , William IV 's younger brother , but in the eyes of her descendants she had been the rightful Countess of Toulouse and periodically they went to war to re-assert that claim . |
| 2 | A great dark arch appeared , and then they passed into shadow with the sounds of water glooping as echoes in the high tunnel and the light playing along the sides like silk in the wind . |
| 3 | He showed her the caving ones first , and then they paused for supper before going back to look at the ones of his son . |
| 4 | It seemed to take two lifetimes for the group to climb past them , but finally they passed from sight if not sound . |
| 5 | But then they got into trouble . |
| 6 | Jones had been doing research funded by the US Department of Energy ( DOE ) since May 1986 , had hints of neutrons and by September 1988 was in the process of starting to use a neutron detector sensitive enough to measure their energies and determine whether indeed they came from fusion . |