Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] they [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They could n't be very quick because there was no electric light upstairs and they had to manage with the candle Carrie was holding . |
| 2 | David Speedy 's goal enough to get all three points for Leicester and I think on the balance of play they just about edged it but Forest put up a marvellous performance in the second half especially when they had to make er changes and things did n't go well for them . |
| 3 | John and Isabel were happy in their marriage even although they had to go into hiding occasionally , with friends or on the muirs . |
| 4 | Ca n't tell you how long a journey it was back in the fog from Liverpool that day , and then when we were relegated back again to the third division it was on the last match of the season against Charlton , and the heavens opened and a big thunder storm and it just flooded the pitch and the referee just called the match off and they had to play it again the following Friday and Charlton ran out two-one winners and Walsall finished with nine fit men and still that 's the football I suppose . |
| 5 | The have had er a long grade of time since the complaint was put to the commission , to put a notification in if they wanted to protect their position , but still they could of done so on , on a precautionary basis , and without prejudice basis they have not done so , a longer standing commissioner had invited them to do so ten years ago , they could do so this week on without prejudice basis and that may erm lead to security in the future that they now seek |
| 6 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 7 | Davidson moved out of the house a week ago and they decided to separate last weekend . |
| 8 | FURIOUS relatives were grappled to a courtroom floor yesterday as they tried to attack a killer joyrider . |
| 9 | Most of those leaving the cities have had to buy their way out if they wanted to live in environmentally more-attractive areas that , particularly in the south of England and — to some extent — increasingly elsewhere , were proving to be the most economically active . |
| 10 | He used to pop out and use a pay phone , ringing publishers at awkward times like lunch time so that they had to ring him back . |
| 11 | I mean he 'd ha he had a pack up but they had to have money to buy ra |
| 12 | It er they 'd had a fire there and they wanted to know if I could replace the lock . |
| 13 | Quite unexpectedly , at 9.00 a.m. on 12 July , the couple turned up at Auckland airport and told the hire company 's office there that they had to return early to Europe and were planning to catch the 11.30 a.m . |