Example sentences of "[vb past] they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , for the first time , they found they needed large numbers of new people , with new skills , and they needed them quickly . |
| 2 | Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew said the RUC still had his full support and he believed they pursued all killers with equal determination . |
| 3 | Pc Kelly told the jury he questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 4 | He told the jury that he had questioned the driver and passenger about their identities and noticed they had Irish accents . |
| 5 | When police arrived they found two Englishmen who seemed to be shocked victims of an armed hold-up , said James Curtis , prosecuting . |
| 6 | Mr Fallon angered local GPs with an article in the Darlington Advertiser newspaper which they claimed implied they ran inferior surgeries to fundholding practices who manage their own budgets . |
| 7 | Sky TV yesterday announced they have exclusive rights to show his championship challenge and , if successful , his first defence . |
| 8 | As they went they noticed several places to right and left of the path where he had broken off into the wilderness . |
| 9 | They were helped by their post-war cost advantages — rapid reconstruction at home meant they had newer facilities than many of their competitors — but they were also pre-disposed towards exporting by the Allies ' confiscation of their pre-war overseas assets . |
| 10 | The majority of women workers were between 20 and 25 as the management felt they had fewer problems with young women . |
| 11 | At the time , people felt they had secure jobs er in the M O D and the dockyard and so people accepted that with pensions and everything that goes with that sort of secure job , now of course the whole situation is enormously diff different and I was saying to , I have some French people staying with me this morning and I was , they were asking me about wages and I was saying to my daughter who works er on a Thursday evening in the local Sainsburys , earns more per hour than a friend of mine , well two friends of mine , one of whom is a carpenter , a fully qualified carpenter and the other is a motor mechanic , and that 's an indication of the sort of level of wages that people are paid in this area . |
| 12 | She knew they had different fathers and she knew that in each case there was only a certain number of possibilities , but beyond that all was obscure . |
| 13 | As they advanced they conscripted able-bodied males into their army . |
| 14 | They 're around 30 , some victims thought they had foreign accents . |
| 15 | They 're around 30 , some victims thought they had foreign accents . |
| 16 | You know , I always thought they put anti-bonk pills in the coffee . |
| 17 | If the child 's genius is not recognised and nurtured they face boring lessons way below their intellectual potential and run the risk of becoming disillusioned and ‘ problem ’ pupils . |
| 18 | or did they want five pounds for him ? |
| 19 | ‘ If they were taking him to the police station , why did they walk three miles . |
| 20 | Did they put double ones in or just single sockets ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Why did they wait two days before making contact ? |
| 23 | Did they recognise individual mates ? |
| 24 | The Exec Director paused for a good twenty seconds before continuing : ‘ Did they share any women , anything like that ? ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | As it was , the Pistols were not together long enough , nor did they sell sufficient records , to make the profits for Virgin which Branson had always anticipated . |
| 27 | Did they have blue ones for children ? |
| 28 | Their resources were considerable ; not only did they have vast incomes from taxation and from their own estates , but also they could expect considerable quantities of tribute from the subject peoples east of the Rhine and elsewhere . |
| 29 | ‘ Did they have any children ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Did they have any children ? ’ |