Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was staggered they managed to get such a large mouthful in a relatively small mouth ! |
| 2 | It was not impossible they planned to work some malign mischief upon himself and the gullible Mistress Sinister . |
| 3 | She told herself to calm down : at the worst they had lost each other and would have to go home separately . |
| 4 | Looking back , I need not have turned my nose up with such scorn when any of them approached me , as I 'm sure they did need some friendly contacts , but if one showed any signs of friendliness , they interpreted this as an invitation to attach themselves to you for the rest of the day , and probably the night too . |
| 5 | Those peasants who continued to own draught animals had lent them to relief organizations at the height of the Famine , but by the spring of 1922 they refused to do this any longer , since they now found many profitable uses for them . |
| 6 | First they had to lend some maroon LX Club shirts to a Northampton side who had forgotten to bring theirs along , and then the students gave a lesson in speed about the field , quick thinking and teamwork . |
| 7 | By 1900 they had shifted half of it — 200 acres . |
| 8 | In December 1959 they decided to do another 3,000-mile passage to Barbados across the Atlantic . |
| 9 | By lap 10 they were 20 sec ahead of the rest , and by lap 20 they had stretched that gap to 40 sec , before a rash of pit-stops for tyre changes interfered with the order . |