Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Then two older boys came along on bikes and one of them went off to get help . ’ |
| 2 | In 1938 they moved in to take control of Denham Studios . |
| 3 | Then of course , then when they the kids went up , did n't know where they were going , and the parents did n't know but they found new found freedom because all the bloody kids had gone to the countryside |
| 4 | He might just as well not have bothered , for it was there still , it would be there for ever , unless one day they found how to cut memory out of the brain with a scalpel . |
| 5 | Miss Jeanette told how in the early hours of that day she had gone with Nichol to a nearby beauty spot and they tried unsuccessfully to have sex . |
| 6 | They came down to buy sugar , flour , saltfish or candy from Nana , to collect letters and exchange gossip . |
| 7 | as if they 'd just discovered immortality to be |
| 8 | And they 'd definitely made progress . |
| 9 | I never would have credited that people would talk about these illusions as if they 'd really taken place . ’ |
| 10 | But these scabs went back and made slates , and there was erm two officials there , they they 'd never made slate when we were working up there . |
| 11 | The fate of the company is not recorded except like BMK they reverted back to carpet manufacturing as soon as possible after the war ended . |
| 12 | This is exactly the system which many teacher-librarians and resource centre directors in Great Britain adopted for reprographic and audiovisual materials when they began consciously organizing resource collections ( rather than " libraries " ) in the late 19605 and early 19705 . |
| 13 | Clients who withheld money they owed often achieved satisfaction on their particular bone of contention . |
| 14 | The castle was in such a state of disrepair that they decided not to spend money on it , and eventually it was demolished . |
| 15 | Police believe both men must have used the pub in the past because they knew how to gain access to the cellar . |
| 16 | These workers clearly demonstrate the ability to detect signals in patients with substantial antibody concentrations , but do not state whether in these cases there was a rising titre of anti-D ; this , however , can be construed because they went on to do cordocentesis in the patients with high values . |
| 17 | They went out to drink champagne as promised . |
| 18 | They looked up to see Sheldukher coming towards them , the Cell case under one arm . |
| 19 | 6 people were removed from the country when they signed a paper agreeing to leave the country voluntarily , however due to the fact that they did not speak English they were unaware of what they were signing . |
| 20 | In fact they did not speak French either , they spoke a sort of fractured German . |
| 21 | They did not express community , clustered around the green and church , in the adventitious manner of the true village ; they were drawn up in parallel lines to each side of the road . |
| 22 | When Bell and his colleagues analysed the contents of the stomachs of four of the five ( they did not study buffalo ) , they found that each species was living on a different part of the vegetation . |
| 23 | But they did not give rise to new grouping systems within or between schools . |
| 24 | They did not waste time there but headed downhill , taking the shepherds ' road that slanted luminous green between clusters of birches , their shadows stretching ahead like gawky giants so that the children jigged to make the shadows jump and curved their fingers from their heads to give the giants silhouettes like devils . |
| 25 | She met Bill coming back up the steps , and they did not waste time on speech . |
| 26 | showed mercy on them even though they did not show mercy on him . |
| 27 | Admittedly , dealing with a woman as dominating as Catherine de Medici and a family as powerful as the Guises , which all three had to do , would have put strains on personalities far stronger than Francis II , Charles IX and Henri III ; but the fact remains that while , unlike Mary , they did not show indifference to their kingdom , they were exactly like her in failing to assert their control of it . |
| 28 | They did not commit suicide . |
| 29 | System builders that Microprocessor Report spoke to at Comdex last month said they did not expect volume production of Intel Corp 's Pentium chip until mid-1993 at best , suggesting the part has slipped another few months . |
| 30 | In these circumstances perhaps , they did not reinterpret history in each passing generation : experience of the relationship did not produce contestatory reformulations of knowledge . |