Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones then remarked that , even if there were some commercial benefits , he failed to see how they could be vouchsafed for Utah , and reviewed the history of his own group 's work at Brigham Young University . |
| 2 | My tea , my science teacher my science teacher , she said to me , , he used say well they bunk off out of their lessons , they hit the teachers , she goes , cos she worked in there , |
| 3 | I also set up snares and trip-wires linked to glass bottles in the grass on the dunes over the creek , so that if anybody tried to sneak up they would either catch themselves or snag the wire , pulling the bottle out of its hole in the sand and down on to a stone . |
| 4 | Nobody seemed to know where they came from , but there they were in the Forest : Kanga and Baby Roo . |
| 5 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 6 | And they were going in the next morning , oh they 'd phoned up they 'd cancelled . |
| 7 | In London you could be robbed , mugged , murdered , even , and no one would take the blindest bit of notice , yet here , in this little backwater , they 'd done all they could and more . |
| 8 | And if Labour 'd got in they 'd of er , your dad said he 'd er probably got a rise |
| 9 | Her daughter 's attack made her break down and weep , and after they 'd cried together they talked about the misunderstandings . |
| 10 | If they 'd played badly they might have expected a hiding . |
| 11 | And she said and he said , well they told did n't they ? |
| 12 | The darned things never seemed to stay where they were meant to . |
| 13 | Well some estates , not many of course , but some estates have got a no go area for caravans parked do n't they ? |
| 14 | After I 'd quietened down they left me alone . |
| 15 | Each time I 'd wondered how they carried such a heavy load : how the pine-needles even stuck together , bound as they were with a single length of rope . |
| 16 | I began to see how they constructed a world view through the way they worked and what I wanted was irrelevant really . |
| 17 | The noise down in the courtyard was getting louder as the men began to wonder why they were n't leaving . |
| 18 | People began to wonder how they were going to get through the evening . |
| 19 | They of Valencia took courage at these tidings , and waxed insolent , and began to devise how they should take vengeance upon Abeniaf , and upon all those who had oppressed them . |
| 20 | By the time the gloom of evening began to settle in they had reached the river Travis had spoken of . |
| 21 | They followed did n't they . |
| 22 | When they began to travel abroad they invested in a couple of suits and a jacket which they passed around each other . |
| 23 | He trained two thousand brave men , who became well disciplined ; no man swearing without paying a fine and if found to be drunk , they were set in the stocks and some were cashiered , and they became known everywhere they went as an elite regiment and many more wished to join them . |
| 24 | As the bombs in the hangars started to go off they beat a hasty retreat across the field . |
| 25 | The wind was easterly so they would be returning over our heads onto the main runway , and as the aircraft started to come back they seemed to be only a few feet above us , touching down after they crossed the far hedge . |
| 26 | At this juncture the peace of the night was rent by the sudden wail of air-raid sirens , and as they started to walk off they bumped into some Italian soldiers . |
| 27 | ‘ The problem with all these stars , ’ said Peter Fairley , ‘ was that the moment they started to know that we were interested in what they could do , and we started to investigate how they did things , it just went . |
| 28 | He compares these people with the more conservative of our piscatorial ancestors who , a billion years ago , resisted the temptation to clamber on to dry land and decided to stay where they were . |
| 29 | Dusk came quickly and they decided to stay where they were and camp for the night . |
| 30 | And I started see now they 've brought out that Dove , the moisturizer , rubbish . |