Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simultaneously , two overweight , breathless and slightly tipsy men who were descending the station steps saw the train moving out and broke into a run , during which they managed to overtake half of a 66ft. long Mk. 1 coach . |
| 2 | Further it suggested that of those people who did not go to a lawyer , a higher proportion had received help from outside the household , and of that group only one-quarter had received advice to go to a lawyer which they had ignored Such contrary evidence does not denigrate the value of pre-legal advice , but suggests that , as would be expected , it is not the only significant factor in determining whether , and if so why and how , people seek legal advice . |
| 3 | The investigators reported from a previous publication in which they had compared these thirteen subjects with twenty-nine borderline schizophrenics , thirty-four neurotics and twenty-three high-risk subjects with no mental illness . |
| 4 | In the past strategy was dictated by head office while divisions and international businesses were left to implement actions in which they had played little or no part in developing . |
| 5 | More mundanely , most likely , prepare to have the family for which they had to wait many wearing years . |
| 6 | By the middle 1950 's most of my generation were settling down to carving out their careers and bringing up families after the unsettling effects of the war years during which they had experienced all they wanted of adventure and excitement . |
| 7 | Across the field the bloom of the cherry tree , under which they had sat that morning , hung sodden and spoiled . |
| 8 | Then he felt , vibrating along the ground , the steady tread of a man going away beyond the crest over which they had come that morning . |
| 9 | This schematic characterization , however , does not do justice either to the manner in which they attempted to keep both poles in play at once , nor to the way in which they came to concede the impossibility of the theoretical projects which they undertook . |
| 10 | Legislation , however , is a dangerous invention : ‘ It gave into the hands of men an instrument of great power which they needed to achieve some good , but which they have not yet learned so to control that it may not produce great evil ’ . |
| 11 | But in the end their greatest impact was the way in which they helped to change most people 's way of lite and in so doing changed much of the landscape . |
| 12 | But Town take delight in proving people wrong … mind you they had to fight all the way against Wolves and there must have been times when they wondered whether they were going the right way … |
| 13 | And we appreciate how honoured we are to be among the select few who they chose to share this very special occasion with them . |
| 14 | To the crew it was a routine trip and one they had made many times before by night . |
| 15 | Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly . |
| 16 | The men and women whom they encountered showed neither hostility towards their new enemies nor enthusiasm for a great patriotic war : |
| 17 | He in turn relinquished the reins in 1985 — between them they had recorded some 95 years of service with JM ! |
| 18 | Mrs Blakey kept on asking them what they 'd done that day . |
| 19 | Everyone in Knockglen heard about it in record time , but what they heard bore little relation to the facts . |
| 20 | What they had given each other , dramatic though it had become at the end , had been the inevitable physical manifestation of what had happened between them weeks earlier . |
| 21 | This was to assume that the Danish people would change their minds of their own volition ; that they had been so overcome by the enormity of what they had done that they would hardly be able to wait to get back to the polling stations to put it all right . |
| 22 | He leafed through the stack of notes that was the result of their questioning everyone in the area about what they had seen that morning . |
| 23 | What they decided to do many years ago was what lots of people in public positions do — use the TV to step out into the public gaze . |