Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some German military police took Tribe prisoner and locked him in a barn , where they shot him fifteen minutes later . |
| 2 | They 've all been partially excluded from mainstream schools , where they found it hard to fit in . |
| 3 | They agreed , although they made it clear that they were not prepared to involve William or Harry in the exercise . |
| 4 | In general local law societies disagreed with the question , although they found it difficult to reach a consensus on the issue . |
| 5 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 6 | My guess is that , with a few exceptions , it wo n't but that in four years we 'll have another Mogg-Davidson book claiming that they got it right all along . |
| 7 | On this particular the Government have got it right , and I am proud that they got it right . |
| 8 | But tutors were so impressed with the two girls ' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers . |
| 9 | There were so many , moving so fast , that they made him dizzy . |
| 10 | Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary . |
| 11 | Your mind became numbed to everything about human beings except that they pressed close around you all the time , that they slept above or below you , that you could never turn your head without seeing some evidence of their closeness — their clothes or their books or their photographs — that they made it impossible for you ever to be alone . |
| 12 | Afterwards she felt that Sarah had deliberately steered the conversation away from Terry , and recalling her remark that they knew him better than she did , Anne felt uneasy without quite knowing why . |
| 13 | She hinted that she could be of more help to them than her brother , provided that they left him alone in his present state of health . |
| 14 | He knew then that they wanted him alive . |
| 15 | ‘ I think it was quite a victory , looking at ‘ The Aztecs ’ , that they allowed me some leeway there : having me chosen as the wife of the Warrior , which more or less said , look she 's marriageable now . |
| 16 | After hearing the evidence the justices announced that they found him guilty , but on hearing of his previous convictions they decided that they would not deal with the case and committed him for trial to quarter sessions . |
| 17 | Two-thirds of a random sample of 54 of those with tinnitus showed that they found it disturbing , 72 per cent experienced it continuously , 18.5 per cent frequently and only 9.25 per cent occasionally . |
| 18 | And that they found it easier when they that that English was English and Orcadian was Orcadian . |
| 19 | However , some did make the comment that they found it difficult to get details on the new systems . |
| 20 | Their spirits had parted , and though their bodies stayed together for a while longer , it was the first time since they had met that they found it difficult to talk . |
| 21 | 15% said they were badly affected — and of those , roughly one half said their main problem was that they found it difficult to pick up their usual programmes on LW . |
| 22 | She often shrewdly suspected that they found it hard work too , and that for all their signatures of fondest love they did not really like her ; they wanted her , they thought that she would do , but they did not really like her . |
| 23 | These people here are very over-careful you know , they just like to cover every eventuality so they asked us all to ring our families even though there is n't a thing wrong … . ’ |
| 24 | It 's not that bad , it 's just that red and green are fairly important colours to people who try to wave down planes and things like that , so they told me that being a pilot was definitely out . |
| 25 | Some thought it was an attempt to make the long hitters go for the green across the water so they made it twenty-five paces shorter . |
| 26 | all these drugs he 's been having , so they gave him some er tablets and er , he said on Sunday he was in such pain , so he said try these , he has given me some before , but er , you 're supposed to take two and I was only taking one |
| 27 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |
| 28 | I did n't really believe the , so they showed me these pictures of themselves with Mr Brando , on his Tahitian island , their arms round him . |
| 29 | They did n't like the turkey so they threw it all away . |
| 30 | And I went , I know everybody had a piece of this chocolate on their plates , but there was nothing else I could do , once they saw it that was it . |