Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that journey I had only travelled among the Adoimara , and at Bilen they had given me alarming accounts of the ferocity of the Asaimara in Bahdu . |
| 2 | Only unlike nature they 'd got it wrong . |
| 3 | As Charlotte started after her , it crossed her mind that this throw-away remark was the kindest thing Ursula had found to say about the man she had been married to for more than twenty years since the day they had found him dead . |
| 4 | I remembered another story they 'd told me that day of the first snowfall : it was about a hunt several years ago , on a day like this . |
| 5 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |
| 6 | He recalled the businessman again , saw his face , framed in the night-light outside the small house they had kept him captive in . |