Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they . |
2 | The saxophonist 's widow refused to lie in Ken and Rhoda 's bed , so Ken offered it to Bernard and Ellen : they took the offer , rightly , as a gesture of approval , and the four of them carried it one very early morning from No. 97 to No. 93 . |
3 | Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him . |
4 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
5 | Obviously most of them had them marked or had their name on them , so that they would have the same er the same set of tools every day . |
6 | After that , the two of them left me alone . |
7 | Most of them left me alone whilst I wrote and if they did want something they waited till I looked up . |
8 | ( Both of them told me this ! ) ’ |
9 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
10 | Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views . |
11 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |