Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] they [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Till the Union made them acquainted with English manners , the culture of their lands was unskilful , and their domestic life unformed ; their tables were coarse as the feasts of Eskimeaux , and their houses as filthy as the cottages of Hottentots . ’
2 Previously , they had been presented in the basic , unaffected prose of fanzines but knew they had officially arrived in the real world of music journalism when Neil Taylor asked them to pose outside Buckingham Palace .
3 As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops .
4 These attitudes led them to adopt an interventionist style in the management of local authorities that differred in many ways from the more orthodox approaches discussed in Chapter 5 .
5 Before presenting the subjects with the lists for the second time , the researchers asked them to recall the words .
6 About this time , JWT announced they wanted four more ads , and another three more after that .
7 Our traditional British reserve made them think we were very hostile and resented them being here , and their extrovert camaraderie we regarded as showing off .
8 Like legislators , doctors set themselves up as women 's protectors and the preoccupation with women 's reproductive systems as the source of their illness and weakness led them to assume the role of moral guardian .
9 All day and then he got all to do at lunch time yeah they kept it up all the day , they had separate play time , they had had to eat their lunch in the class room all they were allowed was a piece of fruit , a bread and water and they all had to have , you know , they had a bread roll supplied by the school an a an apple I think And Jan made them write out their names and some of them could n't write their name !
10 They were all larking about but when Mr Leyland asked them to calm down Howe turned violent .
11 For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well .
12 And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees .
13 Watkins found them sited at intervals along a ley and often at the crossing of two leys .
14 They were unhappy and in a hurry to get clear of the trees ; they started if a mouse stirred , and when an owl hooted they seized their swords . ’
15 Her thoughts taking flight , Luce found they had stopped halfway down a bare stone corridor .
16 The clubs helped them recruit supporters . ’
17 Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma .
18 At the end of the day , however , Celtic just about deserved their triumph , though Dundee made them fight every inch of the way .
19 ‘ Pineapple pyramids : I always felt that the Jews made them to mourn all the slaves before them that the Egyptians had broken with building their mighty pyramids . ’
20 But red-faced valuers admitted they made a mistake when Mary , 41 , invited them to view it .
21 And only the previous week the head of the Irish College in Rome — a widely respected Monsignor had said that illegal resistance was the natural protection against immoral laws and that ‘ the Catholics of Ireland rightly disowned what force made them endure ’ .
22 The clear autumn day drew to a close and Corbett made them rest their horses for a while .
23 Yesterday Barclays and Lloyds announced they wanted to join Switch , the debit card network founded by National Westminster , Midland and Royal Bank of Scotland .
24 States used them to discover whether schools were giving value for money .
25 The Pittagora women did not yet swim , and airless midsummer found them sequestered in their shuttered , marble-floored apartment in Rupe , emerging only before the sun gathered strength to go to market or to Mass , or after its heat had dimmed in the evening to stroll under the acacia trees with the rest of the town 's gentry , while their servants sat in doorways on wooden chairs , commenting aloud .
26 A trip to the local agent found they had not got one in stock , but I managed to get one for a P6 car .
27 Their solitary life meant that they were in the forefront of the new mystical spirit of the fourteenth century , and through The Ladder of Perfection Hilton helped them to graft the new spirituality onto the old Benedictine pieties .
28 When she 'd drunk that , Nevil proposed they danced again , and she agreed .
29 ‘ The whole nature of that part of the market is that as soon as the insurers found they had claims , they stopped the product rather than trying to build the book sensibly , ’ says Caroline Blackman .
30 Zeppelin airships had been developed before the outbreak of war and , in 1915 , the enemy used them to carry out bombing raids on London ; also the German submarine ‘ U ’ boats sank a civilian ocean liner , named the Lusitania with the loss of 1,198 lives , including many citizens of the United States of America .
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