Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [det] [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 | 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 . |
| 5 | They played I mean all sorts of games that we played they do n't play today . |
| 6 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They both knew what they had to do , and how hard it was going to be to escape ; they knew they needed each other . |
| 11 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 12 | She hoped they kept him occupied all day . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They wanted me to wear this wig , a gross , thick , nylon thing like something out of the Nolan sisters . |