Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not quite enough perhaps but still enough to be an admission that they got it seriously wrong in the year before . |
| 2 | It 's just that they reminded me so much of the poor child my husband killed . |
| 3 | Alternatively , we might feel that people who took care to give different media sources exactly the same rating on an eleven-point scale were indicating quite strongly that they found them equally useful . |
| 4 | The Force knew that their meticulously erected edifices of proof would n't fall to pieces under cross-examination when he was in the witness box , although he sometimes suspected that they found him too scrupulous for complete comfort . |
| 5 | For the present , we can simply note that many of the women felt that relations between themselves and the staff were less formal than relations between the male students and the staff ; the women said that they found it quite easy to ‘ get round ’ the male staff , whereas several men complained that staff were quite unhelpful . |
| 6 | We made one together , one each in step by step so we showed 'em what to do and then if you were n't sure you asked or if he was n't doing it right so they did it together technical erm situation . |
| 7 | Last year , this union held a ballot and a hundred and forty thousand members took part in that ballot for the leader of the Labour Party and they made it absolutely clear to the executive that as far as they were concerned they wanted a part and a say in who was the leader of the Labour Party , and they di decided dem democratically . |
| 8 | yesterday and they sent him home last week and he 's on crutches at the moment . |
| 9 | Her have said and she went along , Bobby and they found her so brilliant |
| 10 | In a major study of poor families in the inner city , it was discovered that a large majority of parents saw the teacher as a person of authority whose action they were prepared to back up , especially if they saw it as strict . |
| 11 | But they made us so welcome , the tourists , you know they were fantastic . |
| 12 | So , I told them that it had new blades on but they wanted it really tight , and they wanted tightening up and that so yeah . |
| 13 | Did you know that in London — because they had them there first , of course , some years ago — in London , the — well , beatniks really , are n't they ? |
| 14 | But is it because they left it too late or something then ? |
| 15 | Eventually they murdered him because they disliked him so much . |
| 16 | Mr Paddy Ashdown , the Liberal and Democratic leader , said the other community members had ‘ not found her irritating only because they found her totally irrelevant . ’ |
| 17 | But then when they went up when they passed it just two year ago it was fenced off . |
| 18 | At the same time as they made it more terrible . |