Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These patterns and the genes that encoded them enabled him to study snail evolution — how and why snail populations diverged from each other . |
| 2 | If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job . |
| 3 | ‘ They realized what complete idiots they 'd make of themselves , ’ said Nigel complacently . |
| 4 | In front of his daughter ; they made her take pictures of his body … |
| 5 | The fits stopped her from being able to drive and made even daily chores like shopping difficult as they made her develop amnesia . |
| 6 | They made me feel conservative . |
| 7 | the school are doing nothing , okay what did they do , they stopped the money , yeah , they stopped him from having money , they made him pay money back which I 'm pleased about that he got |
| 8 | ‘ They made us chase shadows for long spells but we had to go after this game and that situation was tailor-made for Spartak , ’ he said . |
| 9 | They made us chase shadows for long periods . ’ |
| 10 | He knows that we want to hear about his experience of Neighbours — ‘ They asked me to do Neighbours The Cyber Series , but I could n't go that far … feeling what it 's like to be in Jim Robinson 's shirt , what a waste of technology ’ — that we want tales of drugs and tripping , and an outsider 's observations on British cultural mistakes ( the shell suit ) . |
| 11 | They asked you to cut worms in half , watch them wriggling off in two halves , made you draw blood with a compass , and watch it oozing out . |
| 12 | And they stopped her doing things . |
| 13 | He told me he sometimes hated his face , hated his body because of the ease with which they helped him to dominate others . |
| 14 | Debbie has been referred to a Young Disabled Unit and a psychiatric unit ( ‘ On the second day they found her playing cards in the alcoholics ’ ward ’ ) . |
| 15 | They found themselves sharing stages with other guitar bands like The June Brides , Big Flame , and Age of Chance ; outfits who were later viewed as part of a new scene with The Wedding Present . |
| 16 | The Scots would be extremely unlucky to get a 1990 equivalent of Mexico 's ‘ Group of death ’ when they found themselves facing Uruguay , West Germany and Denmark . |
| 17 | They found themselves rubbing shoulders with right-wing MPs , the same who in 1984 organised a million-strong demonstration in support of private schools and for the right of the parents to choose , and who today declare themselves staunch supporters of the state secular education system . |
| 18 | British brewers do not have to declare the ingredients they use but when American consumers ran a check of Miller Lite they found it contained corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 19 | They pretended he knew Father , and that he was taking their love to him . |
| 20 | As they dismounted it crossed Floy 's mind that the longer they could delay , the better chance Fenella and Caspar had of catching them up . |
| 21 | They invited me to take part in the next one and I went along with them , having no idea what I was getting in to . |
| 22 | They advised him to stop mixing alcohol and dope . |
| 23 | SNAPPY FAMILIES : Mellor sets up a jolly photo-call with his in-laws after they claimed he banned visits from the grandchildren |
| 24 | They obtained it using observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Ultraviolet Explorer ( IUE ) satellite . |
| 25 | They sought no patent ; they ordered him to give information freely to their customers ; and they denied him the reward to which he believed he was entitled under the terms of his contract . |
| 26 | They ordered him to commit suicide by taking poison , and his 6th Symphony — the Pathétique — was his farewell . |
| 27 | In public , three times a week , he held a solemn consistory — which had previously fallen into disuse — in which he deputed the examination of lesser cases to others , while the major ones he dealt with himself so subtly and wisely that all wondered at his precision and skill and many educated and legally-learned men came to the Roman Church to hear him and they learnt more in his consistories than they had learnt in the schools , especially when they heard him give sentence . |
| 28 | They followed her pointing arm with their eyes , and were chilled to see a group of thin figures form out of the darkness all around , shambling towards the group of tired combatants . |
| 29 | They called themselves Die Lucie Geister . ’ |
| 30 | They watched her remembering things she had seen before . |