Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the borders opened up last year , they realised they had the worst . |
| 2 | " They made us carry the injured into the station . |
| 3 | They recommended we maintain the present scoring system . |
| 4 | I contacted schools , newspapers and magazines for young women willing to fill in a questionnaire or be interviewed about self-image , and what they told me forms the main part of this book . |
| 5 | His family claim he was badly concussed and the RAF were guilty of negligence when they allowed him to make the second jump . |
| 6 | They felt it emphasised the Polish presence in the city . |
| 7 | Merlyn had shown it once , saying they kept it to protect the valuable things they bought . |
| 8 | They thought it included the contrary proposition that the law did not protect the fish . |
| 9 | He should have read the writing on the machine they gave him to spin the golden thread . |
| 10 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
| 11 | Before we left , they suggested I returned the next day to undergo a ‘ lymphangiogram ’ and explained the procedure . |