Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sparked immediate criticism that the MMC regulations requiring Bass to free pubs from the tie or sell them had been by-passed . |
| 2 | Everybody should know the boundaries of their own competence , where and how their activities touch on those of others , and in what circumstances they need to consult others or keep them informed . |
| 3 | A series of what came to be called ‘ prejudice sessions ’ , encouraged people across the business to say what they really thought about BP Oil — or thought they thought . |
| 4 | Whatever people like Page may have felt or thought they felt about the Vietnam war , it is difficult not to regard them as much its victims as its predators . |
| 5 | You could understand it with his family — more or less ; they had something to lose , or thought they had . ’ |
| 6 | And by then they all knew who ‘ he ’ was , or thought they did . |
| 7 | If you ask people to describe the times in their lives when they learned something about themselves it is often when someone else told them about the impact or bearing they observed they had in a situation . |
| 8 | Whether he was still staring out of the window at the storm or watching them made no difference . |
| 9 | She , skilled in the ways of therapy , had after the first few sessions begun dissecting his own motives for him and Kevin , like an obedient dog , ended up nodding slowly as she told him clearly , fully , frankly what he meant when he said what he thought about what she or Henry felt , and how what he thought he thought about what they felt , or said they felt , probably was n't what he really felt any more than what they said they felt was really deep down what they really felt . |
| 10 | Thirteen per cent said that none of these factors made any difference , or said they did n't know . |
| 11 | Both him and Gore smoked dope , or said they did . |
| 12 | Early on in an analysis , a patient may not be able to verbalize their real feelings , or to admit they had hostile feelings towards the dead person , and that a part of themselves is pleased with the death . |
| 13 | We wanted to know whether Ruby and her kind ever used another object to modify the rocks or sticks they found , to make true tools , in the human sense . |
| 14 | Ronni kept her gaze fixed seawards as her stomach leapt inside her , remembering that dance they 'd shared together . |
| 15 | The sight that met them brought everything back with a rush . |
| 16 | Colchester was an engineering base , there 's no doubt about that , there was David Paxmans , you must all about , the great big diesel firm , they did some lovely er diesel engines for the high speed trains which , of course , obviously been superseded by electrics , they used to employ three thousand people and when I started in college we did n't enrol their apprentices on the college site , we went to Paxmans and we enroled one hundred apprentices every year on a five year course , that mean they had a five hundred apprentices in a pool , did n't they , just like that ! |
| 17 | THE KITCHEN was a large stone-floored room whose low ceiling seemed to trap the heat of the stove and hold cooking smells long after the meal that created them had been forgotten . |
| 18 | The companies that received them had achieved tough , testing and challenging targets of commitment to training . |
| 19 | The old powers and the impenetrable secrecy that protected them had been breached by the new liberties . |
| 20 | Apart from making a number of impressive black and white studies of the rugged terrain , he also photographed local people , always on the look-out for strength and dignity in their faces that showed they had not been eroded by the harsh circumstances in which they lived . |
| 21 | But in the weeks that followed they became very close and clung to one another in their loss . |
| 22 | In the hush that followed they heard the back door slam . |
| 23 | Her mouth burned from the angry possession of that kiss , her lips were swollen , throbbing with tempestuous heat , and in the momentary stillness that followed they stood apart , facing each other like warriors poised in the midst of battle . |
| 24 | Delays on certain products , the strength of the dollar and a shift to leasing computers rather than buying them had caused the company to issue the warning . |
| 25 | The tall , tough grass that covered them ruffled and flattened with the wind , like a cat 's fur being stroked . |
| 26 | The thread that bound them had snapped with one expert tug . |
| 27 | Once melted they left basins to fill with lake water . |
| 28 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 29 | like most of the the child care was done by the girls , but there was actually a few of the boys that decided they wanted to work in the nurseries and o eh the five that done , there 's actually two that we know of a are actually doing child care as a career . |
| 30 | From Asmar 's reports , I knew that some of them were into arms trafficking as well as dope and that meant they had to have close ties with Syrian-supported terrorist groups like the PFLP — GC . |