Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 2 | To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they . |
| 3 | The prospect of seeing them made him full of joy . |
| 4 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 5 | Whatever these changes were , many who witnessed them found them worrying and unsettling . |
| 6 | Many of them found it easier to move on to the North American mainland after their indentures had expired . |
| 7 | Both of them found it difficult to express their feelings on the war , except in the third person , so strong were their views . |
| 8 | Most of them retained their medieval walls and intricate street patterns and they often served as ecclesiastical or secular centres of administration , but their major role was to act as retail , handicraft and distribution points for wide hinterlands . |
| 9 | ( Both of them told me this ! ) ’ |
| 10 | He looked round them all as though none of them afforded him any surprise , though two of them did not belong here , and to his certain knowledge had been elsewhere only a short time ago . |
| 11 | The fact that they had brought these missiles with them showed their aggressive intentions . |
| 12 | At the Party Conference of 1920 , which coalitionists had hoped would approve fusion , it was estimated that about five-eighths of the delegates were in favour of the existence of the coalition , and the rest against it on principle , but that hardly any of them approved its current policies . |
| 13 | All of them , she saw as she flicked through them , addressed to Soeur Dosithée , and all of them signed your loving sister Antoinette . |
| 14 | Their nerve was a match for his ; they had most of them served him several years , for his men did not leave him . |
| 15 | The matter was abstract , for none of them knew anything other than abstractions , and the tone lofty . |
| 16 | they failed , but they failed their eleven plus twice |
| 17 | Which meant , in effect , that though some parents chose to send their children there rather than to the Grammar School , many more sent them there because they failed their eleven-plus , that Beecher 's Brook of English childhood . |
| 18 | The deep grey eyes were shadowed , but she did n't miss the glitter in their depths as they skimmed her vivid party make-up and party clothes , brief ivory skirt revealing the length of her legs , the matching top moulded to proud breasts , the emerald of the silky , fringed shawl tied tightly about her waist a bright splash of colour between the two . |
| 19 | His death was not due to any lack of care because they owned their own house and were reasonably well off . |
| 20 | Given the long dormancy of the virus , some people now in monogamous relationships of several years standing could have become HIV positive before they met their present partner , and be completely unaware of this fact . |
| 21 | The blue eyes held a distinctly disturbing message as they met her brown ones , and Kate became strongly aware of danger . |
| 22 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 23 | Not that they expected anything other than a hard time when they visited Barnsley . |
| 24 | They expanded their financial and business magazines . |
| 25 | One Saturday last November , they got their first taste . |
| 26 | The air-conditioning roared softly and they got their first drinks as they came out of the tunnel and on to the New Jersey marshes where gulls circled the refuse dumps among a forest of concrete stilts carrying the highways south . |
| 27 | There were a few scares at the death , nothing happened , just they got their first corner after about 90 mins … and after last year … however nothing came of it ( or their second and last corner 3 mins into injury time ) , except one header which Lukic watched wide . |
| 28 | And footballers booked a perm as soon as they got their first team place . |
| 29 | And then Saturday , it meant they got off on the Sunday and the Monday , they got their long weekend you see , when they reached the Saturday . |
| 30 | So probably three months went by where they got their own rate . |