Example sentences of "[subord] they [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palestinians were thus caught in a moral circle , although they rarely cared to debate the morality of what they were doing to the Lebanese : if they failed to fight the Israelis , then they sacrificed their right of return to Palestine ; yet if they did attack the Israelis , they created a new class of refugees among the Lebanese , mostly from the poor Shia community in southern Lebanon . |
| 2 | Some candidates for overseas study told me in all honesty that the acquisition of consumer durables , the modern-day trappings of success , was the main motivation for their efforts , although they also hoped to help the ‘ motherland ’ in the process . |
| 3 | As suggested in Chapter 1 , these measures were not , in themselves , particularly successful in reducing unemployment although they possibly helped to promote the housing boom of the mid- and late 1930s . |
| 4 | If they really wanted to find a motive for the murder , they should grill Mrs Sweet . |
| 5 | If they ever wanted to have a moan about anything I did wrong , like using the bathroom too often , they used to tell Lesley to tell me . |
| 6 | It amused him for a moment to speculate about the others , if they too had seen the paragraph and whether they had been astonished and afraid . |
| 7 | In May 1987 , we pointed out in New Socialist that Labour 's leaders would have to take on electoral reform and come to a pre-election accommodation with the Alliance if they seriously wanted to win the election . |
| 8 | I know of one company where everyone became so highly motivated that most of them left , because they now found frustrating a pace which they had found acceptable before . |
| 9 | They rarely succeeded in making an antislavery question into a diplomatic issue , though they occasionally tried to exploit an existing issue for antislavery purposes . |
| 10 | John and Ann ( although Ann to a lesser extent ) were close contenders as they actively tried to get a tan . |
| 11 | The trio , who were linked on security force computers to 32 murders , were killed as they apparently tried to murder a retired UDR man on a remote Co Tyrone road . |