Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 2 | But to have a trolley they needed money , their father 's money , and when Patsy suggested the idea to him , their father laughed and asked them where they expected him to find that sort of money . |
| 3 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
| 4 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 5 | Hitherto , when they asked us to obey those laws , we have known that we could change them , but hereafter a combination of people with different languages , understandings and cultures can set , and are by combination setting , upon us standards , rules and laws which may be suitable for Greece , central or northern Europe , France or Spain but which are not right for us . |
| 6 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 7 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 8 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |
| 9 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 10 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 11 | Before they came we removed all trace of our connection to television , rearranged the office furniture a bit , and hid a camera in a bankers box . |
| 12 | While they ate he made polite conversation , avoiding with care any of the deeper , more important issues that needed to be talked about and resolved . |
| 13 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 14 | It was felt inadvisable , for obvious reasons , to use the dementia sufferers as informants about their family , care or housing circumstances , but , in addition to the OBS and Depression scale questions , they were to be asked whether or not they felt they had sufficient company and adequate help at home . |
| 15 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 16 | As they advanced they conscripted able-bodied males into their army . |
| 17 | They both knew what they had to do , and how hard it was going to be to escape ; they knew they needed each other . |
| 18 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 19 | She hoped they kept him occupied all day . |
| 20 | They said they built 11,000 Sparcstation 10s and sent 10,000 out the door . |
| 21 | They said nobody survived that posting without getting his nerves shattered . |
| 22 | They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later , she died . |
| 23 | They missed a few kicks at goal but they nailed Northampton to their line and worked up such a storm that they had them scurrying all ways . |
| 24 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 25 | Oh they had they had big house parties you know . |
| 26 | The constraints Ealing placed upon Mackendrick were constructive , because they forced him to find original narratives that used Ealing 's increasingly stale formulae against itself . |
| 27 | The Tomsk voevody wanted firm control over the region and were not satisfied to have the Teleuts as allies ; they wished them to become permanent subjects . |
| 28 | They wanted him to like this house but he did n't , and he was n't saying so just so they 'd feel better . |
| 29 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |
| 30 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |