Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] they [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he took charge of men ; organized them ; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things . |
| 2 | or did they want five pounds for him ? |
| 3 | Recently , Sir John Thomas 's group from the Royal Institution , London , has used an instrumental arrangement at Daresbury that allowed them to capture both types of information on the same sample while it was actually undergoing a chemical change . |
| 4 | Nor did they want equal non-protection from the law — they wanted censorship . |
| 5 | Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy . |
| 6 | As it was , the Pistols were not together long enough , nor did they sell sufficient records , to make the profits for Virgin which Branson had always anticipated . |
| 7 | Nor did they lack ethical principles — contrary to much biased misunderstanding on the part of Russians with their Christian European prejudices , especially in the field of sexual mores . |
| 8 | Briggs and Nebes ( 1976 ) found no effect of familial handedness but nor did they find any effect of handedness per se . |
| 9 | Nor did they have any preconceptions about his personality or politics . |
| 10 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
| 11 | He went in to his bank and got them to print new cheque-books , and instead of signing ‘ N.O. Russell ’ , he now signed ‘ Oliver Russell ’ . |
| 12 | The Harpers became worried when their daughters did not return to the family home in Cheltenham and reported them missing 24 hours later . |
| 13 | The creepy brew was dished out to the squad in Barcelona and helped them win four gold and five silver medals . |
| 14 | He rang the hospital and told them to stop that man sending letters . |
| 15 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 16 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 17 | A massive security operation has been mounted in the city and United Nations offices in New Delhi have cancelled visits by foreign staff , banned field trips by local personnel and advised them to avoid crowded places . |
| 18 | To break this cycle we asked the women to aim at eating three meals each day and encouraged them to take small steps to reach this goal . |
| 19 | The FA have already fined Birmingham £50,000 and ordered them to play two matches behind closed doors , both sentences suspended until the end of next season . |
| 20 | If the child 's genius is not recognised and nurtured they face boring lessons way below their intellectual potential and run the risk of becoming disillusioned and ‘ problem ’ pupils . |
| 21 | These structures gave them strength and enabled them to stand several centimetres tall . |
| 22 | Most papers did not mind , however , for the government restrictions kept their paper and printing costs low and enabled them to make good profits from the big demand for advertising space . |
| 23 | And did they do good business at the er Longeaton |
| 24 | And higher still we ascended , by thinking inwardly and speaking and marvelling at your works , and we came to our minds and transcended them to reach that region of unfailing abundance where you feed Israel forever on the food of truth . |
| 25 | MANCHESTER 's Most Excellent , one of the city 's finest one nighters till the Salford posse smashed in and forced them to close last month , has started its own record label . |
| 26 | In the latest they were called to the home of a man in his early 20s in Frenchgate , Richmond , but found they needed more equipment so took him back to the Richmond Fire Station and released the cuffs with a hacksaw and vice . |
| 27 | In the last month before war was declared , families who were still on the waiting list for places on the Kindertransporte , but knew they had little chance of moving up the queue , took to waiting at the main rail stations , watching and hoping . |