Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They helped him regain selective movements in his arm , and to control the grasp reflex in his hand . |
| 2 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 3 | The patients were asked how easy they found it to maintain good control . |
| 4 | While they ate he made polite conversation , avoiding with care any of the deeper , more important issues that needed to be talked about and resolved . |
| 5 | It was felt inadvisable , for obvious reasons , to use the dementia sufferers as informants about their family , care or housing circumstances , but , in addition to the OBS and Depression scale questions , they were to be asked whether or not they felt they had sufficient company and adequate help at home . |
| 6 | As they advanced they conscripted able-bodied males into their army . |
| 7 | They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later , she died . |
| 8 | But there was a foreman in the shop , but these did their own job er and er in the about three or four weeks , and I 'm only a kid , erm they had me doing separate jobs you know , not for a gaffer or anything and er they used to , they give me odd jobs as , you know like , to help the men and er it went of like that in till I was eighteen or nineteen , well twenty , that time you were , day , become a man . |
| 9 | Oh they had they had big house parties you know . |
| 10 | The constraints Ealing placed upon Mackendrick were constructive , because they forced him to find original narratives that used Ealing 's increasingly stale formulae against itself . |
| 11 | The Tomsk voevody wanted firm control over the region and were not satisfied to have the Teleuts as allies ; they wished them to become permanent subjects . |
| 12 | ‘ Oddly enough the selectors only told me shortly before the match that they wanted me to play left centre so that ‘ Obbo ’ could get some of the ball , ’ Cranmer reminisced . |