Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , the solution they sought had serious implications for civil liberties since sections would effectively deprive individuals of their liberty . |
| 2 | The men and women whom they encountered showed neither hostility towards their new enemies nor enthusiasm for a great patriotic war : |
| 3 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 4 | Everyone in Knockglen heard about it in record time , but what they heard bore little relation to the facts . |
| 5 | And er they felt had little prestige and that the French peop The French Canadian speakers had little prestige in their own language . |
| 6 | This money was initially paid out to distributors as a stimulus to set up a network of satellite producers but , after the corporation had trouble recovering the £3 million invested in Korda 's British Lion , money was directed into individual projects which they thought had commercial potential , as the percentage of the budget ( usually 30 per cent ) that could n't be raised from a distributor . |
| 7 | And they , they had had some experience or were they engineers or something |