Example sentences of "they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They reneged — prompting the Serbs to do so too — when Bill Clinton hinted they might get help from America . |
| 2 | ‘ Last week , they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 tickets . |
| 3 | Last week they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 ’ Rangers ' statement |
| 4 | gives him an overdraft facility of so much money enable him to work when he moved , and they reneged on it ! |
| 5 | They flung the ball wide down the right , defenders raced in to support and in a sequence far too rapid for Dave Seaman 's comfort , Brett Angell and Ian McInerney contrived four chances . |
| 6 | They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality . |
| 7 | When they disappeared he turned his attention to a couple of girls who were laughing and giggling as they flung an orange frisbee at each other . |
| 8 | They flung themselves against it . |
| 9 | Another dealer owed a few hundred pounds by the director of a firm he had just left , drove one night with some friends to his house , where they flung bricks through every window . |
| 10 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 11 | As he stepped out , they flung themselves out of his reach , all at once , silently , before resuming their sawing song . |
| 12 | He had been on the committee of the Scottish region , as it was ten called , since 1984 — ‘ they flung me on as naive new blood ’ — — and was vice-chairman for two years before becoming chairman at the tender age of 25 . |
| 13 | They flung themselves on him , yanked his legs back , crossing them so that his knees splayed out . |
| 14 | They flung each other off and stared for an instant , each of them aware that he was known , each conscious that this recognition made many things plain . |
| 15 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 16 | He writes that people ‘ choose ’ yakhtaru ) members of committees ( see chapter I , ‘ Popular congresses and people 's committees ’ ) ; but everyone else called these choosings ‘ elections ’ ( intikhab ) : older people had experience , younger ones the tradition of elections under the monarchy ; and they assimilated these procedures . |
| 17 | But whatever they assimilated from other cultures and traditions , they applied in a specifically Judaic context . |
| 18 | In Piagetian terms they assimilated the language to what they knew , yet managed to preserve at least part of the meaning . |
| 19 | And thus and so , they whispered low , |
| 20 | She had spurned the hypocritical cant beloved of politicians and addressed herself directly to the people , showing how well she knew them , telling them what they whispered in their hearts but dared not speak , calling their bluff ! |
| 21 | Then , over and over again , they whispered : ‘ We love you so much . |
| 22 | They whispered to each other . |
| 23 | They whispered , and talked , and compared notes , and then Rosie , sitting cross-legged on the hard sausage of a pillow , said : |
| 24 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 25 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 26 | They whispered to each other that Tess was sure to marry that handsome gentleman . |
| 27 | They whispered ‘ Your will is our peace . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you see ? ’ they whispered impatiently . |
| 29 | ‘ You are coming to destroy ! ’ they whispered back . |
| 30 | They channelled rainwater away from the guttering through open-mouthed figures , which occasionally contained a short section of pipe . |