Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With some , like Tony Jacklin or Susan Hampshire , it is perfectly obvious they got it through hard work in their particular calling . |
| 2 | In their wisdom ( or because of the lack of it ) they appointed me as working group chairman . |
| 3 | They found him in robust mood , " his morale seemed higher than at Eighth Army HQ " and he seemed confident that he could " maintain " the " uneasy position " in Venezia Giulia " for several weeks if necessary , while negotiations proceed and decisions are taken on a government level " . |
| 4 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 5 | And they told it without on-screen questioning , though the programme is skilfully structured to give it a coherence it might have lacked . |
| 6 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 7 | Julia 's questions about the line the defence lawyers were taking were as acute as anything she had ever asked David , and they filled him with relieved delight . |
| 8 | They watched him with sly greediness . |
| 9 | They watched him with unconcealed anxiety , wet already with the light rain . |
| 10 | they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia |
| 11 | They took me to Lochleven Castle , and put me in a room like a prison . |
| 12 | And they did it for 20-year-old centre-half Darren Salton , who is still in a coma and on a life support machine after Thursday 's road crash in which Paul Telfer was also injured . |
| 13 | They stood her in good stead when her father enrolled her at her next school , Riddlesworth Hall , two hours ' drive from Park House . |
| 14 | They eyed us with vague curiosity and then returned to their ( apparently fruitless ) fishing . |
| 15 | Whitlock had spent most of the afternoon with them and he 'd come away with the distinct impression that they held him in little regard . |
| 16 | They sedated him with Southern Comfort . |