Example sentences of "[vb past] they [vb infin] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But soon he discovered that politicians were more interesting than colonels so he arranged his soldiers as though they were the House of Commons and made them harangue each other . |
2 | Married men with children were the group most likely to reply that taxation made them work more hours . |
3 | But Graham and Russell , if anything more composed , made them defend that advantage , and the Chelsea defence responded with a disorder to which only Ken Monkou was an exception . |
4 | Often he made them criticize each other 's work . |
5 | The creepy brew was dished out to the squad in Barcelona and helped them win four gold and five silver medals . |
6 | ‘ I saw them nudge each other and stare — after all , he is divine . |
7 | What did they achieve last week , |
8 | u give you some anti histamines , did they make any difference at all ? |
9 | ‘ Did they sign this form ? ’ |
10 | Did they spare one word for that valiant new American nation across the Atlantic ? |
11 | ‘ Where did they leave British industry ? |
12 | ‘ Oh , lord ! ’ she sighed , but asked hopefully , ‘ Did they give any indication of how long … ? ’ |
13 | ‘ Did they wear any livery ? ’ |
14 | And did they do good business at the er Longeaton |
15 | How did they do that Kenny , I mean what good , who gave that to you ? |
16 | Did , did they do structural work last Sunday ? |
17 | Did they do any work in the woods ? |
18 | Nor did they want equal non-protection from the law — they wanted censorship . |
19 | or did they want five pounds for him ? |
20 | Did they want further liberalization ? |
21 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
22 | Did they put double ones in or just single sockets ? |
23 | Nor did they lack ethical principles — contrary to much biased misunderstanding on the part of Russians with their Christian European prejudices , especially in the field of sexual mores . |
24 | Why did they wait two days before making contact ? |
25 | Why did they say that migration occurs even when we have high unem unemployment ? |
26 | Not only did they disclaim any career but motherhood , they even began to question the need for the higher education itself . |
27 | Did they recognise individual mates ? |
28 | The Exec Director paused for a good twenty seconds before continuing : ‘ Did they share any women , anything like that ? ’ |
29 | Did they remember much detail about it , or merely that it was there ? |
30 | This life-principle was very important to the early alchemists : they saw it as so real that , not only did they consider all entities to be made up of differing proportions of dead matter and life force ( spirit ) , they tried to use the spirit as , in essence , just one more chemical . |