Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kate had been so busy looking around the room that she 'd rather forgotten why they had entered it in the first place . |
| 2 | Some years earlier , Ray Galton and Alan Simpson ( the writers for comic artist Tony Hancock ) and Goon comedian Spike Milligan had established Associated London Scripts ( A.L.S. ) , an institution described by June Barry as ‘ a hot bed of writers , many of whom had offices in the house which they rented out to use whenever they wanted to get away from home or from the studios . ’ |
| 3 | Of Time In They sang as they walked along the clause as they walked along tells when they sang . |
| 4 | A forest of hands clutching a variety of tickets waved about his head like the tentacles of a sea anemone and he began patiently to explain where they had gone wrong . |
| 5 | No , no , they broke down did n't they ? |
| 6 | Erm thought so did n't they ? |
| 7 | no need for them to go to Norwood Gardens or or they they specifically did n't go to Norwood Gardens they just went through did n't they ? |
| 8 | Surprisingly , however , he found that sentences took longer to understand when they were preceded by a context than when they were not preceded by a context . |
| 9 | They got there did n't they ? |
| 10 | An old man and woman lived there did n't they ? |
| 11 | Signora De Amicis , carried along by her own enthusiasm , did not realise why they were laughing , and , being thus taken aback , did not sing well for the rest of the evening . |
| 12 | She did not understand why they should be doing this and her failure to understand reminded her of something . |
| 13 | The court did not state why they thought this was the mischief , and the Criminal Law Revision Committee 's Report considered aggravated burglary was aimed at instances where the accused intends to use or threaten the use of weapons in order to steal . |
| 14 | The Serbs did not mind how they disposed of the Muslims , so long as the area was ‘ ethnically cleansed ’ . |
| 15 | They had had to pass straight through some of the villages which were completely full and did not know where they would go next , but would stop at the first village in which they could park their coach . |
| 16 | He did not know where they were heading , but already it was clear the destination would not be of his choosing . |
| 17 | There was something in Mrs Maugham 's solid air of conscious rectitude that threw a faint shadow of guilt over everyone who approached her , though as often as not people did not know why they were guilty : her disapprovals were so vast and public , her approvals so private and ill-chartered that all immediately cast themselves as goats in the discrimination of her gaze . |
| 18 | He did not know how they would have known his household routines . |
| 19 | People did though did n't they , anything you want down the shop ? |
| 20 | Brutus had said that he killed Caesar for the general good but Antony is now saying that he did n't know why they killed him , otherwise he saying that it was n't for the general good . |
| 21 | I did n't know why they have n't done it before . |
| 22 | They did n't know where they were going to start . |
| 23 | Here you bought things at the door — fish , pies , cakes ; you did n't know where they had been ! |
| 24 | And it got worse when I realised I did n't know where they were going for their lune de miel . |
| 25 | I did n't know where they were . |
| 26 | Madeleine said : they could n't be buried in the cemetery if people had forgotten all about them and did n't know where they were , could they ? |
| 27 | How he had intended that they should live with her for a while , and how his mother had a grudge against Bridget , and the terrible row they had had the previous night , and how they did n't know where they were going to live . |
| 28 | She did n't know where they were going , nor did she care . |
| 29 | fifties , all I can remember there was an all very stolid erm , people did n't know where they were yet , and erm , it er |
| 30 | Put them round the corner where where I did n't know where they were . |