Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the June elections , for the first time ever , they got together to block roads and occupy sites , demanding more land , and money for bilingual education . |
| 2 | In extreme cases they became simply receiving institutions for classes of paupers with little hope . |
| 3 | They 'd even planted seeds , which had n't grown . |
| 4 | And their odd jobs , they 'd probably got men in their own factory to do it , but no they sent them to Dick and I er used to oblige . |
| 5 | Indeed did n't some of those unfortunate Micks you buggers kept framing get done for handling gelignite when they 'd only played cards or struck matches or something ? ’ |
| 6 | They 'd all got loads of money . |
| 7 | Crushes were all very well , they 'd all had crushes since they were seven , but Sam was nearly seventeen , and Camille could see her childhood slipping away . |
| 8 | They 'd all had kids before . |
| 9 | They 'd always had secrets , those two . |
| 10 | A cluster of keys which they 'd never found doors to fit ; instruction documents for a blender he 'd burned out making midnight margaritas ; a plastic bottle of massage oil . |
| 11 | Over hundreds of millions of years , as species evolved , they developed better designed hearts with extra chambers which succeeded in separating blood-borne oxygen on its way to the muscles or fins , and back again . |
| 12 | The 1975 Lyceum concerts were not the first Walters shows in London , but the impact with which they hit still has implications for reggae today . |
| 13 | In fact , it was probably decreasing size in those creatures evolving from the therapsids that spurred the need for mammalian endothermy when the problems of overheating became the reverse — when they needed later to maintain temperatures . |
| 14 | My God , they knew how to plan families twenty years , thirty years before you were born . ’ |
| 15 | When the ancestors of whales reinvaded the sea , they did not acquire fins by hybridizing with fish . |
| 16 | They did not shake hands . |
| 17 | In the 1980s , among an entire group of paediatric anaesthetists , a substantial fraction believed that newborn children did not feel pain and therefore they did not give analgesics to newborn babies . |
| 18 | On this latter point , however , they did not give details of how this was achieved in schools . |
| 19 | In the Holland Report in 1977 it was argued that young people were no longer employed because they did not fit employers ' needs . |
| 20 | They did not ruin crops or attack living things . |
| 21 | An Inland Revenue spokesman said yesterday the estimates were rejected because they did not match records . |
| 22 | They did not mention children , and Lily did not ask . |
| 23 | If they did not adjust prices immediately then market activity would bring about the changes . |
| 24 | The national gallery told the Minister 's predecessor , the right hon. Member for Shoreham — no doubt the arguments were repeated to the Minister personally by many of the trustees and directors of the museums — that they did not want powers of disposal — not because they did not trust their own intellectual judgment , but , following the line set down in the Museums and Galleries Commission 's 1988 report on the national gallery , because those powers should not be forced on the galleries . |
| 25 | That is , while they did not start courses at the institutions we studied , they did go on to take a course elsewhere . |
| 26 | People were nevertheless quick to identify an interested argument and they did not feel disagreements less keenly because they understated them . |
| 27 | Deaf mothers often said they did not understand descriptions of the advance of the baby during the second stage of labour and would have liked to see what was happening . |
| 28 | This question had little significance and was relevant only to the part-time farmers as most family farmers said they did not take holidays . |
| 29 | It may well be that the police did have justification in their reasonable fear that a breach of the peace would ensue if they did not remain where they were , and if they did not issue instructions to the appellants to leave . |
| 30 | Grantham Hospital chiefs were last night being asked why they did not notice symptoms of the syndrome in Allitt before she started on the children 's ward . |