Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | They asked me to get thirty-six teams , at one point in was fifty-seven but it settled down to thirty-six |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 5 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 6 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 7 | As they advanced they conscripted able-bodied males into their army . |
| 8 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |