Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] they [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 2 | At first she had complained to Aggie , saying they were stupid because they taught nothing but the abc and counting , and that most of the time was spent singing hymns and listening to stories from the Bible . |
| 3 | There was just enough time for Bobbie to make herself tidy before they called her into the front room . |
| 4 | He may have shown indifference with his remark that Christians need not be ashamed if they knew nothing of the number and properties of the elements . |
| 5 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 6 | She crouched as the great flock screamed past her , wings humming ; some of them tangled in the trees , a few panicked as they shattered themselves against the stone of the fortress , or flew frantically in the confined space of the room ; but most of them circled above her head , then streamed away to the south , lost against the fading luminescence of the sky . |
| 7 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
| 8 | JIM LEIGHTON ( above ) , the goalkeeper Manchester United once dropped from an FA Cup final , was yesterday put on Wembley alert by semi-finalists Sheffield United when they signed him on loan from Dundee . |
| 9 | Ultimately , the fragmentary nature of the Habsburg empire led to its fall , leaving the Spanish in control of Italy , a position they would maintain until the early part of the eighteenth-century when they lost it with the War of the Spanish Succession . |
| 10 | And the crew were much pleased when they found it to be |
| 11 | ‘ In fact , ’ he 'd gone on , ‘ it would be most convenient if they did it on their birthdays . |
| 12 | Some Western reports claimed that Iraqi troops had been told that they were invading Israel and were deeply distressed when they found themselves in another Arab state . |
| 13 | He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul . |
| 14 | She was frightened and depressed when they took her into hospital for the operation on December 22 , but she was fit enough to go home on Christmas Day . |
| 15 | and you work on the computers what you 're gon na be and then it 'll be silly if they brought you to a nursery afterwards if you wanted to be |