Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | London 's top toy store Hamley 's may find they are wishing they had listened to the hype . |
| 2 | The younger your child is the less able they are to remember what happened even a few days ago , so they need you to keep in touch with them . |
| 3 | The group are staying for another 24 hours , during which they 're hoping whatever did go bump in the night will make a return appearance . |
| 4 | ‘ So the position is , ’ Maxim summed up , ‘ that they assume the dead man , Hochhauser , had some document or other , they assume Blagg picked it up , and now they 're assuming he gave it to me . ’ |
| 5 | Even if it was your they 're saying it belonged to yourself . |
| 6 | Then they 're told he had 230 burglary convictions |
| 7 | They 're claiming he started it ? ’ |
| 8 | They were almost the last to leave ; as they were leaving they paused , of course , to say goodnight to Mother . |
| 9 | Just as they were leaving she did at last catch sight of some friends from school . |
| 10 | And she took the child by the hand and walked her to the settle , and when they were seated she looked at the small figure by her side , at the hair , like a golden halo round the oval face , and the limpid grey eyes gazing so trustfully at her . |
| 11 | When they were seated he relayed Eliot 's suspicions about the funding and spending of the MacQuillan empire . |
| 12 | Marc wore a non-commital expression , and as soon as they were seated he reached inside an inner pocket and drew forth an envelope . |
| 13 | If they were sacked they stood to lose old-age and long-service premiums . |
| 14 | That Kellynch Hall must be let , ‘ a beloved home made over to others ’ , is deeply felt ; but , within a few weeks of the Crofts ' arrival as tenants , Anne ‘ could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay , and that Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners . ’ |
| 15 | Trainees at Harvard Securities were not in practice made to send out details on stocks to clients they were pitching who had n't dealt three times , as all dealers were supposed to . |
| 16 | He was suspicious because they were unloading what turned out to be stolen property at a friend 's flat . |
| 17 | During the brief periods in which they were separated they corresponded . |
| 18 | She was oddly quiet , seemed in an odd mood altogether , though not an unhappy one : while they were eating she sat staring over the valley with a dreamy look in her eyes and a small , secret smile on her face . |
| 19 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 20 | But now they were spoken she knew she had been right . |
| 21 | While they were walking they had not been able to see it , because there were hills in the way ; but now they saw that the cottage was really built on a cliff , and down below them was a small bay . |
| 22 | ‘ When they were distracted I rushed into the street . ’ |
| 23 | So all they had to do then was go on to Hollyhead and they were refreshed they 'd had a meal so they would n't be dying of hunger . |
| 24 | They trusted me enough to allow me into their ranks , but when I saw what they were planning I knew that the only answer was to destroy them , expose them . |
| 25 | When I reminded them that only an hour ago they were saying they did n't fancy any more , they looked genuinely irritated . |
| 26 | thing and they were saying it started already and the Austrians were in the lead at that time |
| 27 | When I again became conscious of what they were saying I heard Lili arguing . |
| 28 | Gradually as they were arguing they began to realize that they rather liked the American . |
| 29 | I would have been pleased to own any of these , but after they were finished she told me they were all ordered . |
| 30 | The new buildings did n't help the market workers because when they were opened we had to pay much higher rates for everything — we even had to pay to go to the bathroom . |