Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even an optimist like Alix found people depressing when they revealed themselves in this manner . |
| 2 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 3 | They had you by your short and curlies the minute they got you into that uniform . ’ |
| 4 | But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it . |
| 5 | Ronni cast him a glance , as they seated themselves at opposite sides of the table . |
| 6 | Since the works ( de Kooning apart ) were abstract they lent themselves to diverse interpretations . |
| 7 | Guess what , they made one for Super Nintendo . |
| 8 | They asked me for more money . |
| 9 | Also they asked him about some people rating him better than Best . |
| 10 | They passed it on 19th April when it obtained the Royal Assent and became law with the short title , The Public Offices Extension Act 1859 . |
| 11 | No , the council 's took it over , they sold it to this bloke . |
| 12 | Cos they had the , the expensive yarns and they produced them on these machines with very little waste . |
| 13 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 14 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 15 | They helped me in many ways but there was something sick in my mind . |
| 16 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 17 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I have three or four : two black Strats , a Les Paul Junior with a neck-through-body — really heavy guitar , sustains really well — a Flying V that they built me with one pickup — neck-through-body also — and a regular Flying V. ’ |
| 19 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 20 | They found plenty of common Church interests and then friendship ; they had conversations , which Ramsey enjoyed enormously , about matters political as well as religious ; Ramsey went over to Garrowby several times for meals or to stay the night and celebrate the sacrament in the morning ; and he conducted Halifax 's funeral at Kirby Underdale in 1959 . |
| 21 | When broadcasters were promoted they found themselves in administrative posts : talented people were rewarded with jobs which meant that they broadcast no longer . |
| 22 | as if in a corny love story , they found themselves in each other 's arms . |
| 23 | By the late 1880s , however , they found themselves in open conflict with the women 's trade union movement on this point . |
| 24 | It was what , I used today , they used it in all hospitals . |
| 25 | Then they tried it with various kinds of depression , even psychoses . |
| 26 | They described themselves to each other as being virtuous even , and certainly industrious . |
| 27 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 28 | They caught them within 5 days . |
| 29 | You see in consecrated ground so they buried her in this bit of wheat land at the Muckle Water there . |
| 30 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |