Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the mouse cells became cancerous in consequence , and the human DNA retrieved from them turned out to contain a mutant version of a normal cellular gene . |
| 2 | The footplatemen had nothing to gain by lying about the position of the distant signal when they admitted not seeing the home signal at all . |
| 3 | The men poured off the lorry , the wheelbarrow was hustled from me , and they fought playfully to have a turn . |
| 4 | To crush their rivals , therefore , they sought not to limit the power of the Grand Prince but to gain influence over him by identifying themselves with the elevation of his personal authority . |
| 5 | At the local elections in May 1976 , the Conservatives won control of the council and on 7 June told the Secretary of State that they proposed not to implement the plans for the conversion of the five grammar schools into comprehensives and sixth-form colleges . |
| 6 | Then , having settled their men and their stewards and their womenfolk , if they had any , they moved eastwards to do the same for themselves and for others along the course of the Forth , and to drift , with an inquisitive eye , through the hills and croplands that lay southwards in Northumbrian hands . |
| 7 | I was n't going that far today , but I could hear the bulldozer they used sometimes to spread the garbage around as it revved and pushed . |
| 8 | today the two counties have been playing on in the championship and here 's how it finished … they tried hard to get a result but rain stopped play … and the game ended in a draw … |
| 9 | This will occur if for example the buyer has had some use of the goods and subsequently they perished thereby frustrating the contract . |
| 10 | One morning they woke up to find the Blessed Margaret in charge whilst their own leaders resembled very recently decapitated chickens . |
| 11 | Wearily , fearfully , they filed out to face the day . |
| 12 | The achievement of the men of '58 — they played superbly to reach the final only to lose to Dublin — is still recalled proudly in Derry . |
| 13 | Wickrithe was only two hours away by car , and every so often they drove down to spend an afternoon with Gran ; but usually Adam was nowhere to be seen . |
| 14 | Whatever their regrets at the time , however , the Americans had certainly lost them by the early 1950s as they came increasingly to value the sterling area as a buffer for the dollar . |
| 15 | And that was the weekend they came over to collect the and |
| 16 | Long ago the the abbots of Cupar Angus , they came up to spend the summer m summer months at Dalvaine . |
| 17 | that they came in to snatch the bodies and they put a a double watch on . |
| 18 | Coun Thorne-Wallis said : ‘ I was pleased they came along to check the fences . |
| 19 | but they came out collected the set , we managed to borrow a set from elsewhere |
| 20 | The night of December 16th 1943 , became known as Black Thursday , because a real pea-soup fog descended on eastern England while the squadrons were out , so that they came back to find every air field shrouded in gloom and had to land all over the place . |
| 21 | They , they painted there house a year ago and they 've done it again this year , you ca n't tell where it 's stopped and where it 's done , do you know what I mean . |
| 22 | They 'd just survived a crash and had over-reacted . |
| 23 | Whenever I saw her and Shadwell together they always looked pretty intense , as if they 'd just had a fight or shared a lot of secrets . |
| 24 | Less than 48 hours later you 'd think they 'd just won the pools . |
| 25 | Leeds were quoted at 20–1 to win it , even though they 'd just shown an interview with Howard saying the squad we have now is better than the one we had when we won the thing . |
| 26 | Health and safety cour training courses according to these reports these are poorly attended with a majority below forty percent but more worrying than that is that nearly half of G M B safety reps said they 'd not received a copy of the safety rep 's kits . |
| 27 | They 'd tasted like shit but they 'd sure done the stuff ; everybody else had been whining about the story while Pete had been lying there with his tongue hanging out . |
| 28 | They 'd even discovered the unlikeliest things in common — a liking for potted shrimps and piano concertos , an aversion to veal and Wagner . |
| 29 | They 're offered for sale at around six pounds … and in cases like these available before they 'd even reached the cinema . |
| 30 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |