Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had identified itself as Churchill 's private secretary , Jock Colville , and said they realized he had some news to tell them . |
| 2 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 3 | Before they came we removed all trace of our connection to television , rearranged the office furniture a bit , and hid a camera in a bankers box . |
| 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 | And so he got space to build a house and they began it began this part in thirteen sixty although it 's clear that there was an earlier house here , perhaps built at the time when they first got the back in the eleven seventies . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The idea is that if elderly people can be encouraged to think back to the times when they had lots of relationships , and when they felt they had some status and worth , then they are able to feel that status carry over more into their present life . |
| 8 | As they advanced they conscripted able-bodied males into their army . |
| 9 | They both knew what they had to do , and how hard it was going to be to escape ; they knew they needed each other . |
| 10 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 11 | They said they built 11,000 Sparcstation 10s and sent 10,000 out the door . |
| 12 | They said she had pulmonary embolism and 7 days later , she died . |
| 13 | Oh they had they had big house parties you know . |