Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned to face her then , his eyes intent as they met hers for one long minute , and she had the strangest feeling that he was trying to look inside her soul . |
| 2 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 3 | The Fabians inherited both the positive scientific spirit and a conception that progress follows natural laws from the evolutionists , but they adapted it to French sociological positivism based on the principle of social solidarity . |
| 4 | And they began it in thirteen sixty , the time when York was just beginning to become er the most of importance as the second city of medieval England . |
| 5 | I did n't think they bred them like that any more . |
| 6 | They acquitted him of three further charges of indecency and one of buggery . |
| 7 | Then they hit her like two separate blows . |
| 8 | They took him to that private clinic , the one in the hills . |
| 9 | She was only thirteen stone when they took her in that last time , she was massive , she must of only been about five foot |
| 10 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 11 | Though literary festivals could be immensely enjoyable , especially if they took you to some pleasant distant city , like Toronto or Adelaide , there was something absurd about writers gathering together in this way . |
| 12 | Very briefly , Peter Davis , North Yorkshire County Council , you raised the issue of procedures looking at the er post two thousand and six scenario within the light of er a statutory greenbelt er at that time , and I would envisage that the County Council and the Districts , if indeed we 're all er in business at er er in in in the next century , would probably want to run a similar sort of exercise that they would be ran through the end of the eighties , and that is to sit down together , er and look at all the options , er that are available for Greater York , in the same way that they did it in ninety eighty nine , one additional factor at that time would be that er the greenbelt would be statutory , and it would be statutory if the County Council and ninety five percent of the district support on sites would be a tight greenbelt so the options would be looked at erm er in that context , on the comments that er Miss Whittaker , erm questions that Miss Whittaker raised , there is a paper that the County Council produced for the greenbelt local plan enquiry that I remember well as N Y Two , which set out in detail the various components , erm of the York greenbelt in addition to the historic title that the that the focus of the green belt comes across a variety of of of of matters , and if it if it is helpful to this panel that document was acceptable by and large , supported by the District , we can certainly put that in , and can circulate it round . |
| 13 | Since its 720- hour engines were time-expired , they replaced them with two low-time 200-hour ex-Belgian powerplants found in the USA . |
| 14 | No confusion was found when they tested them against 200 different isolates of the same , but genetically unmodified , bacterium taken from lake water . |
| 15 | So right away you had Hawaiian choirs singing church music , but they tinged it with this Hawaiian melodic sense , which is like a different way of resolving a melody . |