Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did you not find that er the work them became very sort of com compartmentalized if you like , very specific people were doing bits of jobs rather than a feeling that you were all part of a much larger thing ? |
| 2 | Most of them came fro Blundell 's School and Castle Cary CC in Somerset , and they were styled the Devon & Somerset County Wanderers . |
| 3 | When they saw that the war could not be won , even as early as 1941 , some of them opened up lines of communication with us and the British . ’ |
| 4 | As one of them turned away Carrington heard him mutter something , undoubtedly obscene . |
| 5 | Some of them looked only half-made . |
| 6 | BRYAN BEESON and Jason Nicolle , two members of the England team whose make-up has caused so much controversy , created sensations yesterday when each of them brought down members of Pakistan 's defending world title team at the World Open Championships here . |
| 7 | In some camps Red Cross parcels arrived less regularly than in others and when they failed altogether people talked about food all the time instead of , as usually , about food or football or politics or the theatre . |
| 8 | The closer they crept -both morning and belief — the more he regretted shunning the assassin when it had so plainly wanted his company . |
| 9 | En route to his room they met only Roger Freeman , the Minister for Public Transport , and thus a ministerial colleague of Harvey 's , who was on his way to Archer 's party . |
| 10 | The country was green and flat and featureless as they got nearer Hackballs Cross , with high hedges and few signs of human habitation . |
| 11 | There was still much danger : the palace was heavily guarded , and even if they got away King Minos had many warships which could chase and sink them . |
| 12 | It says , and when they got there lot of these kids were dirty they had head lice |
| 13 | When they lived together Paul had explained the merits of plastic entertaining . |
| 14 | They won their obscenity trial but poverty drove them to a caravan beside a Methodist chapel where they lived off skips , meeting other swinging exiles and learning how much people waste . |
| 15 | They concerned principally profitability and factors such as optimal vessel size . |
| 16 | Under new disputes procedures , ( i ) competition cases would be handled by the EC Commission and the ECJ if they involved companies from both the EC and EFTA ( and by EFTA only if they concerned only EFTA companies ) ; ( ii ) disagreements over the operation of the EEA would go to a joint EEA political committee , with either party having the right to seek binding arbitration if the issue were unresolved ; and ( iii ) the ECJ would have sole powers to rule on the interpretation of EEA laws , while EFTA courts would give their " best endeavours " to comply with such rulings . |
| 17 | Of course they did not produce an abstract treatise on Freedom , in which they laid out principles of action in deductive orderliness . |
| 18 | Thereafter they became briefly lovers and lasting friends . |
| 19 | " Eventually , they became almost prisoners , answerable for their every movement . " |
| 20 | If they stood apart from their era , assuming human nature can ever do this , their fear was that they would have faded away as irrelevant oddities ; if on the other hand they became fully part of their century their fear was that they would not be giving an alternate witness , another voice . |
| 21 | Once they realised how risk had suddenly escalated they took steps to cut down their ‘ book ’ . |
| 22 | The following dusk , then , they rode down Eskside , a reinforced company . |
| 23 | When they did n't get the answers they wanted , they made up theories of their own . |
| 24 | In 1990 , they made only $3m on revenues of $70m . |
| 25 | Katherine lay in bed , listening to the floorboards outside her door creak and the hurried whispers of the servants as they made there way down from their attic quarters ; it was a little before six then . |
| 26 | In Nigeria they averaged about $200 million per year between 1981 and 1986 . |
| 27 | Each year they passed out Philips ' Atlases full of |
| 28 | In the course of these they recovered both Shalamcheh and Fao itself , apparently catching the Iranians quite unprepared , with many baseej killed or captured . |
| 29 | San Francisco has had a privatised police force since 1851 , when the city cops were so desperate for help that they sold off districts to private enterprise . |
| 30 | They skidded around chairs . |