Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now with the older West Indian people we would have you know , a passing sort of conversations and I know a couple of them came to help to get me to help them to fill in D H S S forms and things like that . |
| 2 | Half of them seemed to have met their partners at practice or come from bell-ringing families . |
| 3 | I think Anna was pleased to see me despite the knowing looks from the other two , and none of them seemed to have heard about Salome , so I stayed tight-lipped . |
| 4 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 5 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 6 | It is now also dawning on us that , while they may have dropped their hippie beads and trinkets , they failed to let go of their new world view . |
| 7 | Concern grew when they failed to return to base at an agreed time , after delivering aid to the besiged town of Travnik . |
| 8 | Arrest warrants were issued for two former Central Bank officials implicated in the scandal after they failed to appear to testify before the Senate . |
| 9 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 10 | DELEGATES to the International Coffee Organisation meeting in London said they expected to begin drawing up a framework within which economic clauses could eventually be reintroduced into the agreement . |
| 11 | They got destroyed punished . |
| 12 | Yeah , they got aerated started |
| 13 | Pat in EastEnders and Bet in Coronation Street who were both , I think , wonderful before they got married have really become very boring now that they 've got husbands , and Rita , of course , has been through the terrible chastening and disempowering experience of a ‘ film noir ’ femme fatale . |
| 14 | a high proportion of students were delaying job search , mainly because they planned to continue writing up their theses . |
| 15 | If the islands where they lived did contain strong jawed predators , such as hyaenas , their heads would make a crunchy snack . |
| 16 | But Thomas Reid , 32 , and Neil Anderson , 21 , were each jailed for four months at Inverness Sheriff Court yesterday when they admitted trying to break into Torvean golf course . |
| 17 | Under pressure from Oakley and from French officials , Gen. Aydid and Mahdi Mohammed , his main rival for power in four years of civil war , held peace talks on Dec. 11 at which it was reported that they agreed to cease fighting and withdraw their weapons from Mogadishu . |
| 18 | They agreed to try to express any feelings of animosity at an early stage , rather than harbouring them until they exploded . |
| 19 | He got talking to a man called Mac he met while listening to Vivaldi in Regent 's Park and they agreed to try playing something in one of the Baker Street concourses . |
| 20 | It was the authority–s policy , and an implied term of the applicant 's contract of employment , that employees retired at the age when they became entitled to draw the state retirement pension , this being aged 65 for a man and 60 for a woman . |
| 21 | Proudly , they maintained peace with the white men for seventy years , until finally they became forced to take up arms , the reluctant tormentors of the US Army . |
| 22 | But the few houses they passed seemed to have their doors locked and bolted and their windows shuttered . |
| 23 | The person they sought had disappeared into thin air ; it was only then did they puzzle and wonder if the dusk had conned them into imagining that they could be mistaken . |
| 24 | ‘ I worry as well — what if they stopped wanting to work with me ? ’ |
| 25 | They proposed getting rid of the philistines found along Wardour Street , London 's Film Row , wiping out the middle-class personnel who had been creeping into the director 's chair , or introducing a bunch of amateurs into the business . |
| 26 | They promised to help normalize relations between Cuba and the United States , and to assist Cuban economic development , and broadly approved the modest political reforms agreed at the Cuban Communist Party 's fourth congress [ see p. 38523 ] . |
| 27 | The old man had been a seaman , and they had come from Chatham seeking a relative who had once lived next door , but who they found had moved . |
| 28 | The experimental apparatus they used has come to be called a Skinner box . |
| 29 | There was a need for a trusting relationship between client and consultant , he agreed , but he was not prepared to rely on any headhunter completely , maintaining that they pretended to act according to codes of conduct only when it suited them . |
| 30 | According to Mr. Mahmoud , he admitted them because they pretended to have come on behalf of the insurers . |