Example sentences of "[vb past] they [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 2 | While sending hearty congratulations to the trophy winners , Central Council also offers sincere thanks to all the Branches whose extra endeavours led them to beat their own previous records . |
| 3 | Soon after his appointment he went to the north to meet representatives of the non-Burman races , and in effect asked them to state their own terms for participation in a Union of Burma . |
| 4 | Rather than passively absorbing the latest word from abroad , the intelligenty selected those ideas which helped them to address their own problems . |
| 5 | But as it was , when the generals entered they had it all their own presumptuous way . |
| 6 | I told them to do their own dirty work . |
| 7 | Melanie wondered if she would have to take a tray to the basement but it seemed they had their own gas ring down there and brewed up continually for themselves . |
| 8 | But spreading the work out though actually extended the administration costs and not giving start and finish times that were fairly tight , so the people doing the work allowed them to make their own judgments on when it was going to be done . |
| 9 | None of this was the assertion of a separate nationality ; they were all subjects of the King of England , and relied on this for their safety , but this reassuring English presence only encouraged them to manage their own local affairs in smaller and smaller units . |
| 10 | At the East 15 Drama School I have taken audition technique sessions , which was all fine and large but I encouraged them to write their own material as well as having stock pieces to do . |
| 11 | His attitude was , however , coloured by a highly literary romanticism , and despite his efforts at identifying himself with a primitive culture , his outlook naturally remained that of a sophisticated European ; he borrowed freely from primitive sources but reinterpreted them to suit his own decorative and symbolic purposes . |
| 12 | As children become more experienced they establish their own interdependent relationships , but initially it requires careful questioning by the teacher : " You 're a woodworker . |
| 13 | It enabled them to hold their own in the face of calls from male experts for a greater professionalization of the field . |
| 14 | Not like some they sent him ; six weeks in wireless school and they thought they knew it all . |
| 15 | ‘ Did they tell you that ? ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Really , did they tell you that ? |
| 17 | Did they tell you that ? ’ |
| 18 | Now did they give you that and it 's something you do n't need or do you think maybe it 's something you do need ? |
| 19 | Did they give you that too ? ’ |
| 20 | Did they give you any at the shelter ? ’ |
| 21 | Did they give you any drops to use Bob ? |
| 22 | Did they give you any antibiotics ? |
| 23 | But why , with its criticisms of Micky Stewart and Indian ball-doctoring , did they pass it all . |
| 24 | Did they learn anything more about the divine sacrifice ? |
| 25 | Did they have one this year ? |
| 26 | Did they have their own blacksmiths then , or would there be like in the town that went round ? |
| 27 | Or did they have their own trains ? |
| 28 | Did they have it all ? |
| 29 | Yet you do not have to spend very long with them to appreciate how India , then as now , has turned them into what they are , how it has brutalized them and forced them to anaesthetize their own sensibilities . |
| 30 | Moreover , in the British context , the fact that Leninist and Trotskyist groupings are hopelessly divided and have never been able to move beyond a fringe role and secure any kind of solid base in the working class has , as a matter of practical politics , forced them to reconsider their own position and that of the Labour Party . |