Example sentences of "[vb past] they [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It came to nothing and the two settled for the broadbrush alliance on the PowerPC RISC and the creation of Taligent Inc and Kaleida Inc , but it now seems clear that the idea of the big one still appeals to John Sculley , and according to the Independent on Sunday , Sculley was very much considered as the successor to John Akers , but his terms were that IBM sell the mainframe business and merge with Apple to create a profitable $30,000m a year company , and the courage of the outside directors failed them when they considered what announcement of such a deal might do to the IBM share price . |
| 2 | Manningham , a burly fifty-year-old with an aggressive manner and a paunch , met them as they descended the far side of the bridge . |
| 3 | Through an emissary , they threatened that if they had to withdraw — which was now inevitable — and the partisans attacked them as they retreated , the cities of Bologna , Reggio Emilia , Parma and Piacenza would be destroyed . |
| 4 | She jumped round the room with a newspaper club and splattered them when they settled . |
| 5 | According to Mr. Mahmoud , he admitted them because they pretended to have come on behalf of the insurers . |
| 6 | She summoned the Protestant preachers to come to Stirling on 10 May , and outlawed them when they refused . |
| 7 | Grunte then asked them whether they had heard the one about the Norwegian woman who had bought her son three shoes , having been told he had grown a foot ; a sally which was met by universal groans . |
| 8 | When Model returned with his wife and children , Constable Bedford asked them if they wished to pay the fixed penalty immediately . |
| 9 | I stopped two stout middle-aged women carrying laden shopping-bags and asked them if they knew where I could find rooms to rent . |
| 10 | Audrey mentioned her Medau teaching and asked them if they knew Coburg . |
| 11 | We asked them if they had vomited or abused laxatives and asked them to record their weight on a weekly basis . |
| 12 | Woolley called the replacements to one side and asked them if they had flown an SE before . |
| 13 | The final question of the Survey questionnaire reminded visitors that catalogues for the Carlyle and MacLean exhibitions were on sale at the Publications Counter , and asked them if they intended to buy one . |
| 14 | So I asked them if they needed anyone to help out on Saturdays The guy behind the counter said , we do as it happens but you 'll have to speak to Malcolm when he comes in . |
| 15 | Finnan labelled them as they ate their evening meal . |
| 16 | With a quantity of black looks and complaints , the Guildsmen shuffled away towards their homes , and the Bishop blessed them as they went . |
| 17 | They are exactly as the computer drew them when they evolved inside it . |
| 18 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 19 | The preacher 's fiery words pursued them as they passed the house of Crutched Friars and turned left down an alleyway towards the Tower . |
| 20 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 21 | ‘ I first noticed them when they carried out the hospital nursery raid about three years ago . |
| 22 | Normally she looked down her nose at men and then ignored them unless they needed the sharp edge of her tongue . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm planning to knock this meadow before the evening is out , ’ he told them before they left and joked , ‘ You 'll have to harden your hands before you leave . ’ |
| 24 | He finally told them when they stopped at a restaurant on their return from London on Sunday afternoon . |
| 25 | She stripped off her clothes and dropped them where they fell , then ran a bath and climbed into it , scouring her skin over and over with a loofah as if she could wash away the memory of his body on hers . |
| 26 | As far as most Sussex people were concerned , it was probably a struggle which only affected them if they got in the way of one of the opposing forces . |
| 27 | But even Joanna 's courage was shaken at the sight and sounds that confronted them when they mounted to the walkway at the top of the curtain wall . |
| 28 | Two days into the journey then met with torrential rain in northern Italy ; this was only to serve as a sign of things to come ; the icy roads and driving snow that faced them as they climbed the Alps ! |
| 29 | Erm they do have They did have factory inspectors , but they always informed them when they came , and always bought a suit , or a costume , if they were women . |
| 30 | Both her mortality and her immortality scared them until they kept their distance , and invented stories about her powers that made them shiver in their bones . |