Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [conj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under this transaction they collected both rent and other money . |
| 2 | They made no attempt to molest me in any way , and after having hugged the post for about five minutes they went over to see if any of the Museums were open . |
| 3 | In several respects , though , the fate of Black Fury had confirmed basic Warner Bros notions and they continued to pick up ideas for movies from the daily papers , they went on believing that social melodrama could be profitable , and they had been given further evidence that Muni could win acclaim by projecting himself as a hard-done-by but eventually triumphant saint . |
| 4 | They looked forward to see if another component had malfunctioned . |
| 5 | They did not think that these qualities could be found in a job for college leavers — Well perhaps interest and challenge , but not being in charge . ’ |
| 6 | They did not realise that three years would elapse before Black 's injuries would be sufficiently stabilised to enable them to be measured by his doctors or that there are factors in the functioning of the United Kingdom judicial system which would thwart him from securing justice in the courts . |
| 7 | They did not consider that this could be satisfactorily achieved by other means , such as non-statutory guid such as non-statutory guidelines . |
| 8 | They did not know that liberal humanism was powerless in the face of fascism . |
| 9 | Quickly that if what you 're saying is true that how that erm they wanted to er that they , they did n't care that this could lead to excesses because they could control of the situation , was n't that a bit damnable because supposing they could n't ? |
| 10 | They did n't telephone or indoor sales executive indoor sales executives |
| 11 | ( The soldier in uniform they did n't consider as other than a walking rifle . ) |
| 12 | Perhaps they did n't know that several of the wickedest men had escaped from Germany and were even now pretending to be other people . |
| 13 | No I think they did so dull and boring I think I 've got ta fart ! |
| 14 | Drivers tended to recall situations which they had previously rated as risky . |
| 15 | But they 'd asked me for an epitaph not an editorial and , in any case , I 'd already got the clear impression that most of these unaccustomed mourners could recognise a tolling bell when they heard it , but that like so many of the other warnings that had been laid on them over the years by teachers , social workers and magistrates , they had simply decided that any other way of life was simply too dull , too straight , even to be contemplated . |
| 16 | They had rather hoped that political questions would take up at least as much time as trade problems during this week 's visit to Japan . |
| 17 | It is a dramatic change in attitude by the Germans , for they had repeatedly stressed that domestic competitions would take priority over international events . |
| 18 | They had not realized that this had happened . |
| 19 | Those Muslims who were out on the streets looked bad-tempered : they had not eaten or drunk since before dawn , and were in no mood for smiles or pleasantries . |
| 20 | The group who face the most difficulty getting adequately trained are women doctors , and they made their voices heard at the conference despite the organisers admitting with startling candour that they had not anticipated that this issue would arise . |
| 21 | Where the returns from criminal work had been too limited to support more than a small number of firms , they had now increased while other firms felt under economic threat . |
| 22 | Subjects heard sentences from four different sets , in random order , and after a distractor task , were given a forced-choice recognition test in which they were given both sentences they had originally heard and new sentences which were constructed either by combining information from within a set , or combining information from different sets . |
| 23 | They had all made that shrill moan during their funny parties , and by the time of Gary 's birth , Mary had come to recognise them for what they were — satanic incantations . |
| 24 | and er it said that so many of them did n't smile but this |