Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And although other people were certainly present they seemed to have faded to some other level of reality , very far removed from herself and this bulky , swarthy man who was letting her know , without a word , not only that he had her , but that should he now refuse to open the trap and let her in she would plead with him to do so . |
| 2 | They were both too conscious that it was the last , the knowledge weighing heavily on them , giving rise to complex emotion each time their eyes met , until eventually they started avoiding looking at each other . |
| 3 | I 'm not sure , the grocer 's shop erm , now er they did credit trading in those days and most people took the credit . |
| 4 | In fact , he said by now they had begun to get on each other 's nerves . |
| 5 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 6 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 7 | She made a deliberate effort to relax : they would both have blown up if they had had to sit like that all evening , she thought . |
| 8 | But it was not the warmth of the night which kept him awake , nor the hectic business of the day in the office , where they had had to deal with all the additional pressures which the murder had brought to the diocese . |
| 9 | It may have been dropped during the run-in to opening in 1692 , to spare the first-night audience too long a wait for the music they had paid to hear in this long-expected opera ; for it can perfectly well be done without . |
| 10 | Constance and Monsieur de Levantiére suddenly realised how much they had come to rely upon each other in the time that she had worked there . |
| 11 | Why , so hasty had been their recruitment that there even were n't police uniforms ready for them when they were rushed over to Ireland and they had to make do with some rag-tag-and-bobtail hotch-potch of khaki tunic and dark green trousers , supplemented with the black leather belts of the RIC . |
| 12 | And and or or remained stationary but they mostly went up a copper or so every and this was er a real thorn in the side of the employers you know , they wanted to get rid of this and they could n't . |