Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 2 | They 'd found them after five days , with Sandy 's parents hammering at Ted every minute of the time . |
| 3 | they 'd got it in right , cos she was showing my how it worked and that , all |
| 4 | They guaranteed to indemnify him against any financial loss . |
| 5 | Instead of smelting the ore with charcoal in slow processes aided by waterwheels , they needed to do it with cheap coke produced by the rapidly expanding coal-mining industry . |
| 6 | But as they started to grill him on such matters as his attitude to South Africa and Northern Ireland , it was his actions , not his befuddled replies , which riveted the panel 's attention . |
| 7 | We saw the Luftwaffe in full strength that day and they kept hitting us with all they had . |
| 8 | so they did put me onto some . |
| 9 | In general , to this visiting UK pilot , New Zealand landing and parking charges seemed to be negligible , on those occasions when they bothered to levy them at all . |
| 10 | The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary . |
| 11 | they had to sell them for three and threepence , three farthings . |
| 12 | It had once been a well , serving the monastery , but when the Red Guards had come they had filled it with broken statuary , almost to its rim , and now the water — channelled from the hills above by way of an underground stream — rose to the lip of the well . |
| 13 | ‘ This was equally true of the teachers , since they , together with the headmaster , could have decided to stop my research whenever they felt it threaten them ; equally , if they had accepted me with open arms it would have meant that the boys would not have trusted me greatly . ’ |
| 14 | He was roller-coasting towards a high-rise career and now they had sent him to this stinking backwater to test further his resolve and capability . |
| 15 | We were determined to rid Glasgow of the ‘ culture ’ ( mould and dampness ) they had landed us with all those years before . |
| 16 | People had to have all this sex , she knew that ; they had to have it with surprising people and in sometimes surprising ways . |
| 17 | and er that may sound er a bit exaggerated but I can assure you that 's what happened , that er , to go to , to be able to file these , these little scraps of paper they had to stick it on another sheet |
| 18 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 19 | Just over half of the teachers claiming to have seen the booklet said they had used it for in-service training in their school . |
| 20 | The most recent major study of the link between breast cancer and the Pill concluded that younger women ran a greater risk if they had taken it for four years or more . |
| 21 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 22 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 23 | All the villagers had an increasing tendency to address Lydia , if they had to address her at all , in the third person through the medium of Betty and it seemed that Elizabeth too had caught the habit . |
| 24 | ‘ But when it was finished , they refused to show it on any of their ships . |
| 25 | I suppose the reason was one of policy really — they had the youngsters hooked and they wanted to keep them in that position by not rocking the boat . |
| 26 | Lowering the tender took care and patience if they wanted to keep it in one piece . |