Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both of them looked at her with apparent concern but Kelly knew with utter certainty that they were together in this . |
| 2 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 3 | They gazed at him with blue- black fly filled eyes , and a small glimmer of happiness grew on their faces . |
| 4 | They divided between them about one-fourteenth of the land surface of the globe ( if we exclude Asiatic Russia ) . |
| 5 | As they moved from one to another , they collected meals of pollen and paid for them by becoming covered in excess pollen which they involuntarily delivered to the next flower they visited . |
| 6 | There are dozens of ministers , some highly qualified , who have been purged from the leadership by Mr Ceausescu , usually because they disagreed with him on particular issues or because their superior intelligence made him insecure . |
| 7 | Say it was appalling that they spied on us like that ? ’ |
| 8 | Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy . |
| 9 | And then they came at us from both sides . ’ |
| 10 | The New Party made some members when they started , but when they turned themselves into the Fascist Party er they they rid of themselves of many of these er New Party peop , was in the New Party you know . |
| 11 | And and many times I apologize for asking where various places are , because I just ca n't visualize Most of the other things from school come without being beckoned , er one thinks of er the economy , they taught about us about various things of the economy . |
| 12 | And my hands , my heavy hands , they glided over her with careful diffidence , not so much touching or feeling but defining her anatomy . |
| 13 | Crouched over the table at home endeavouring to scarf up all those little facts they required of you in those days ( what is Bauxite ? when should you employ j'eusse , tu eusses , il eusse ? what are the consequences of heating copper in a stream of chlorine gas ? ) and praying that the fuckers would leave the lights on until you 'd done just this bit ? |
| 14 | His scalp is valued above all others in Scotland , with Labour desperate to regain the seat they lost to him in 1983 in the biggest pro-Tory swing of the campaign . |
| 15 | I think they went off us after that although I 'm still friendly with Morrissey . ’ |
| 16 | Then they went at it with redoubled glee . |
| 17 | They listened to him in stony silence — a dozen half-starved men with their womenfolk clustered behind them , infants whimpering at their skirts . |
| 18 | They listened to me with profound attention , and I could see that my words went home . |
| 19 | It was a relief when others came , others who took no notice of her but , if they thought of her at all , must think her as seasoned a traveller as they . |
| 20 | The villagers spoke French ; indeed , they thought of themselves as French citizens and consequently welcomed the helmeted Dragoons with cups of wine and offers of food . |
| 21 | African independence , when they thought of it at all , seemed an eventuality so far into the future as to possess no relevance to their working lives . |
| 22 | The Germans , where they thought about it at all , regarded Poles of all varieties as uncivilised upstarts whom they loathed for their backwardness , presumption and ambition , and this was a judgement that many East Prussian Poles accepted . |
| 23 | First they looked to it for some confirmation that the general principles of history which they saw at work in capitalism had always been operative . |
| 24 | Gallup ( in the UK ) and Starch ( in the USA ) used to run so-called ‘ reading and noting ’ surveys regularly , in which readers of a magazine are taken through the last issue and questioned about every page — whether they looked at it at all ; read some of it ; read all of it ; etc . |
| 25 | The 6 A.M. Glasgow to Garvie train approached platform 8 gently , apologetically almost , then came to a stop with a squealing of brakes and a hiss of escaping steam , and they looked at it with wide-eyed wonder . |
| 26 | They dealt with something like 5000 letters a week and interviewed up to 500 petitioners on behalf of children still in Germany . |
| 27 | Our constituents look to us to obtain redress ; if the only satisfaction that we can give them is to say that the matter is out of our hands , it will not be long before they begin to wonder why they voted for us at all . |
| 28 | They spoke of nothing in particular — holidays , films — and by the time Mrs Aitken appeared in the doorway , carrying aloft a flaming baked Alaska , the tension in Shiona had all but vanished . |
| 29 | They spoke to lots of other Brownies , Guides and guiders over the radio and filled in lots of QSL cards . |
| 30 | But they said to us on that night ‘ unless we have the full £150,000 for the seven performances we 've done and the eighth which we are about to do we wo n't go on . ’ |