Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mary , my eldest sister , had taken the day off work and had washed the curtains but for lack of time to dry them properly had hung them back up wet . |
| 2 | Yep I agree erm I 'd better try them on had n't I ? |
| 3 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 4 | All of them eventually died of cardiac failure without the return to normal bowel function . |
| 5 | With them eventually came dashing British sports , like steeple chasing , cricket , golf and fox-hunting , the last of which had runs in the nearby countryside called ‘ Old England ’ , ‘ Leicestershire ’ and , best of all , as a concession to the French , ‘ Have Leicestershire ’ . |
| 6 | The manservant who let them in looked too young and too tall for his black coat . |
| 7 | They had come much further into the forest than they intended , much further indeed than those who ordered them in had intended . |
| 8 | Stepping briefly outside , he called for a bottle of Clairin to be brought , and the woman who had shown them in brought it instantly . |
| 9 | And these people took them in cleaned them up put them in like a bloody sheet , and all sorts he said |
| 10 | The young man who had let them in introduced himself as Malengin Fole . |
| 11 | George Eliot had loved the bonnets and sprigged china — because she knew them , or because writing them down gave her power over them , made her gentle and generous to their meaning ? |
| 12 | The air between them suddenly seemed static , as she fought for the words to justify her decision . |
| 13 | ‘ So one of them suddenly got rich , hey ? |
| 14 | And Karen last weekend , after you were sitting for them suddenly took ill on the Saturday I think , and Sheila was n't in any great shape , so he went back home er , from the office an over his lunch hour to see if he could just go and lend a hand , ge generally help out over his lunch hour . |
| 15 | And Dalglish must have gone into shock again as the side who have so far swept all before them suddenly surrendered their 100 per cent home record . |
| 16 | That did n't take them long did it ? |
| 17 | The Gnostic teacher , Cerinthus , was active in Asia Minor at the time when John wrote , and he taught that the heavenly Christ came upon the human Jesus only at his baptism , and left him before his passion : the union between them only seemed to be real -actually it was merely temporary . |
| 18 | The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero . |
| 19 | But a lot of them only made it by the skin of his teeth and are in the party only because of their reputation . |
| 20 | The 1982 and 1984 BCS between them only uncovered two cases of attempted rape and 17 and 18 sexual assaults respectively ( Jones et al . |
| 21 | The friend who watched them together recalled : ‘ Camilla was not what one would call a truly beautiful woman . |
| 22 | The tug which had linked and drawn them together had gone . |
| 23 | The actual process of putting them together proved to be an awful lot more difficult than we first thought . |
| 24 | She , Esther and Alix had known one another since their Cambridge days , and often met , but an evening with them necessarily excluded Charles : Esther and Alix did not much care for the world that Charles represented , and his presence inhibited all three of them . |
| 25 | Some of them obviously exceeded their duties in their zeal for examination improvement , as a memo of December 1942 makes clear : These examinations are to be regarded as a domestic affair of the Local Education Authorities for the conduct of which no responsibility must rest upon Inspectors … |
| 26 | Russian representatives sent to them normally had the rank of Great Ambassador ( Velikii Posol ) and their complaints over ceremonial were less intrusive than in other capitals . |
| 27 | Less than twenty of them finally made it back to England , alas — but their sale at Sotheby 's made this one of the most profitable ventures we 've ever engaged in , and did much to offset our subsequent post-production costs ! |
| 28 | Neither of the lecturers concerned was willing to agree to a change at this late date ; when one of them finally gave in , the alternative proposed by the unpopular head of department was a slot already occupied by one of Andrew 's lectures . |
| 29 | Some of them soon came back smiling wealthy and looking unsettled . |
| 30 | And they were wanting to Some of them anyway wanted to join the Portobello branch . |