Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russians agreed they were legally at fault . |
| 2 | THE Algarve is a mixture of the most expensive and exclusive holiday homes in Europe and monstrous concrete high-rise blocks built before the authorities realised they were killing the golden goose of tourism . |
| 3 | At the end of the Gulf War , British Army authorities announced they would have to destroy all dogs which had been picked up and kept by British units in the war zone , but Dave and his colleagues decided they were n't going to let this cruel fate befall Des . |
| 4 | As the riders passed they called out : high-pitched cries which startled the birds that nested in the tree-tops . |
| 5 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 6 | Checks revealed they were from the infected zone . |
| 7 | But last night police and safety experts admitted they were worried . |
| 8 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 9 | And these were the positive ones and , remember , they come from within the ‘ old age ’ field itself where , incidentally , two groups reported they had retirement ages for their own committees . |
| 10 | But red-faced valuers admitted they made a mistake when Mary , 41 , invited them to view it . |
| 11 | Initially both brothers found they were delighted with the arrangement . |
| 12 | But though they no longer imported some categories of finished products , many Third World manufacturers found they were importing the components , materials and technology for these products instead . |
| 13 | ‘ The whole nature of that part of the market is that as soon as the insurers found they had claims , they stopped the product rather than trying to build the book sensibly , ’ says Caroline Blackman . |
| 14 | Moreover , even in eschatology and its presentation in terms of history , the idea of the future that dominated Hebrew thought involved a return to the primeval state that the Jews believed they had lost . |
| 15 | Our screwed up eyes imagined they say a straight line in the bottom of Central Gully . |
| 16 | But the brothers believed they could do no wrong . |
| 17 | The Frenchmen claimed they were making a film for tunnel owner Eurotunnel but were detained after crossing into the British sector . |
| 18 | Longbowmen claimed they were more relaxed and less competitive , not ‘ pot-hunters ’ . |
| 19 | They did not ever smile — but you could tell that when their empty eyes opened they were alive . |
| 20 | Two Cameroonian journalists claimed they had been tortured at an army barracks and made to promise " not to write anything against President Biya " . |
| 21 | Fortunately a supply of candles was found and as the competing teams and their supporters arrived they settled down to some serious drinking as darts players do and nearly cleared the stock of bottled beer before the lights came back on . |
| 22 | The court said that because the articles showed that the auditors were not to be called in until the parties showed they were in disagreement , the auditors were to act as arbitrators . |
| 23 | While an overwhelming number of Scottish Labour MPs contacted by The Scotsman this week underlined their support for Mr Clarke , some of his original supporters indicated they would not support him in the shadow cabinet elections later this year . |
| 24 | If anyone would like their entries returned they can be collected from the Publicity Office ( Room 066 , Building A32 ) from Monday , 1 March . |
| 25 | With heads bowed they agreed to tour the reservation , but Yellow Wolf recalled : ‘ In peace councils force must not be talked . |
| 26 | After an hour or so of drinking , these two gentlemen decided they wished to go for an afternoon drive around the local villages — a motor car around this time still being something of a novelty . |
| 27 | One person said : ‘ Many clients thought they 'd get a slightly better deal through having a blind social worker because they thought I was having to pull out all the stops to prove that I was good and therefore they would get a spin-off . ’ |
| 28 | Left influence was sustained increasingly by events overseas , events over which most Labour supporters felt they had little control and which most of them probably saw as secondary to their still-lingering economic burdens . |
| 29 | And when the Germans bust the tunnels wide open , both parties thought they had justified themselves . |
| 30 | The paternalistic Tillers knew they would be at risk so William was taken on to carry out these arrangements . |