Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [conj] [pron] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked gentlemen to behave as he expected them to behave . |
| 2 | The pensioners claim the society did n't give them adequate warnings of the risks involved when it advised them how to invest their money . |
| 3 | Trying to beat the tiredness and the sapping warmth of the room , and his eyes blinked when he wished them clear . |
| 4 | So thickly was the snow falling that I knew they could only just have been made , probably within the past five minutes . |
| 5 | Small corner shops shut as she approached them . |
| 6 | Mr Howe said : ‘ It was the only chance Arsenal had and it won them the match . ’ |
| 7 | And they entertained us and then some carol singers came and we asked them in and they sang carols and the food was nice and everybody really was very happy and that was the start of our Christmas holiday . |
| 8 | The warehouse proprietor was unaware of B's purchase and himself bought them from A. It was held that the warehouse proprietor did not acquire good title , since being already in possession of the goods he did not take delivery under the contract of sale . |
| 9 | The proportion responding that they thought they could trust the United Sates " a great deal " was 62% ( up from 45% in 1975 ) , a figure not matched by any other country : the closest was Norway , which 37% thought they could trust to the same extent . |
| 10 | The plan backfired when they realised they would need mountains of paper to earn just a few pence . |
| 11 | Two or three days after Miss Bedwelty 's visit the team found that nobody pressed them to practise anything , nothing was said about another riding lesson and life was refreshingly peaceful . |
| 12 | First , the Athenians who were dismissed from Ithome for ‘ subversive tendencies ’ were not the Athenians who were at that moment overturning the Areopagus but precisely Kimon and ‘ his ’ hoplites ( but we have no right to assume that he chose them personally ; four thousand are a lot of people to know by name ) . |
| 13 | The memoirs are extremely detailed , yet Hickey states that he wrote them almost entirely from memory , having only a few documents available to him and those mostly from his later years . |
| 14 | What , I wonder , would the writers of these pieces do if they had they had to co-ordinate an aid programme for Mozambique ? |
| 15 | The room reeled and she opened them again , tried to focus on the book , waited . |
| 16 | Fans wrote letters to the band enthusing and it prompted them to include the rustic version on the CD , cassette and French version of the single . |
| 17 | Till May came and the day came When she wore 'em down to Shoreham , But nobody was for 'em So she wore 'em nevermore … |
| 18 | Who , after all , would decline a chance to emigrate because they thought they might later qualify as a refugee ? |
| 19 | But why did people snigger when I told them what my father did ? |
| 20 | The British secret service came up with a a stroke of some genius when the stopped having our operatives shot when they caught them and simply turned them into double agents . ’ |
| 21 | Credit to them , they came back , got a great goal , Les Phillips had a great game , made the first one I think , no the second one he made did n't he ? erm But he played tremendous , Les ; he got the passing going and I thought they did very well as a team , we kept our composure . |
| 22 | How foreign their names sounded when they heard them called . |
| 23 | Glynis chatted as she escorted them out . |
| 24 | I felt exhausted : as I dragged myself up the stairs I can remember thinking that now I knew what people meant when they said they were ‘ tired to death ’ . |
| 25 | Cardiff knew that it wanted them . |
| 26 | Father Peter asked as he led them out of the church . |
| 27 | All the colour in the room was concentrated in the curtains , and the girls exclaimed when they saw them . |
| 28 | Here and there a fight broke out , girls screeched as someone goosed them , lovers clung together and ignored all that went on around them , pickpockets worked their art furiously and everyone set out to enjoy themselves . |
| 29 | Callahan said when he saw them . |
| 30 | Auto freaks as I called them |