Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [conj] they [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children , woken by their mothers , cried or wailed as they were hurried from their small huts into the main lodge , to hide . |
| 2 | The yield of clones grown with the grass species from which they had originally been sampled again exceeded that made when they were grown in an ‘ alien ’ sward , P < 0.00001 . |
| 3 | The old rules have to be revised or discarded because they applied to the circumstances that existed when they were formulated , a hundred years ago . |
| 4 | It required LEAs ( in Section 34 ) to ascertain the needs of children in their area for special educational treatment , and recommended that they be educated in ordinary schools wherever possible . |
| 5 | The allegations stemmed from a letter received by BR 's area manager at Gloucester in November 1990 , in which a woman alleged that her son and a friend , while travelling from Stonehouse to Gloucester , were stopped by the steward and asked if they were trying to avoid paying their fare . |
| 6 | Depending on the software and the linkages provided it is probable that overflow records will have to be retrieved and checked as they are encountered . |
| 7 | Supporters of an expanded manned space programme cited the recent example of astronauts achieving the successful deployment of the gamma ray observatory ( GRO ) in April 1991 [ see p. 38171 ] and argued that they were needed to correct the optical problems of the Hubble Space Telescope [ see pp. 37394 ; 37551 ] . |
| 8 | Around Rincewind 's head mad , half-formed spirits howled and gibbered as they were sucked past . |
| 9 | It does give them the opportunity to provide the facilities , and on top of that on top of classification we now have grading , where every aspect of that hotel 's operation is examined and inspected and they are giving erm the classification as well as the grading , which could be highly commended or commended , and to give you some idea , out of the hotels in this region , you know , very , very few so far have reached the highly commended accolade , and those that do are well worth it , you know . |
| 10 | Now in pursuance of the premisses the said lords spirituall and temporall and commons in Parlyament assembled for the ratifying confirming and establishing the said declaration and the articles clauses matters and things therein contained by the force of a law made in due for me by authority of Parlyament doe pray that it may be declared and enacted that all and singular the rights and liberties asserted and claimed in the said declaration are the true auntient and indubitable rights and liberties of the people of this king dome and soe shall be esteemed allowed adjudged deemed and taken to be and that all and every the particulars aforesaid shall be firmly and strictly hold en and observed as they are expressed in the said declaration . |
| 11 | He had remembered having seen , that first day , some goats grazing further on down the river bank , had made some inquiries and discovered that they were taken down on to the river bed every morning by a boy who acted as herd . |
| 12 | The nudes became a favourite meeting place of young men , at which point the local wives and mothers could contain themselves no longer and insisted that they be moved elsewhere , much to the annoyance of the sculptor Ernesto Bazzaro . |
| 13 | A member of the Casa Alianza legal office visited them , photographed them and demanded that they be taken immediately to the Juvenile authorities in accordance with article 33 of the Juvenile Code . |
| 14 | Fenella looked over her shoulder at them and saw that they were looking at her with such blind trust and with such faith that cold anger rose in her at the evil Lord who had forced them to his work . |
| 15 | He glanced at the map of the Underground on the panel opposite and saw that they were approaching Embankment Station . |
| 16 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |
| 17 | And thought that they were picking his nose ! |
| 18 | Stolpe denied that those contacts had harmed anyone , and asserted that they were undertaken to help those he represented as a lawyer for the Evangelical church in the former GDR . |
| 19 | Minutes of the A G M on the second of December nineteen ninety one were read proposed Jack and seconded that they be accepted . |
| 20 | Newspapers were told what to publish , and did as they were told . |
| 21 | The rest were helpers or hands , who mostly did the same work and did as they were told . |
| 22 | When the sweetness was all sucked out they murmured that their legs were tired , and cried until they were picked up and carried home . |
| 23 | And Fleischmann received a fax from Harwell and learned that they were seeing nothing at all . |
| 24 | And erm the only other outstanding sponsor from last year was Northern Rock and that has been a bit of a qu a problem because er it 's , we have n't had a closing gala event which might attract them but just recently erm Paul who as you know performed last year with his band so er well er is , had rang me and said that they are doing something in Venice and they could in fact take the boat to Hull rather than to Dover and bring it here and I 'm , so I 'm working on the assumption that we might have that . |
| 25 | On Aug. 23 fears of a power struggle heightened when the Katanga Gendarmes , a secessionist movement based in Angola , declared their support for Nguza and said that they were awaiting his orders to begin military operations in the country . |
| 26 | But the men of the Island of Britain took their meat in the morning and drank till they were inspirited . |
| 27 | Listening with half an ear as she examined the cluster of bottles on the draining-board , she caught the names of several authors and concluded that they were discussing contemporary novelists . |
| 28 | He later retracted the comments and explained that they were made after visiting an area which had suffered lightly from the storm and that he was unaware of the true extent of the devastation . |
| 29 | The compounds remained on the research laboratory shelves until T&L main board director Saxon Tate visited Vlitos one day and suggested that they be screened ( Tate and fellow board director Colin Lyle were charged with overseeing research . ) |
| 30 | Conservationists criticized the Spanish authorities for failing to take sufficient measures to rescue oiled seabirds , and suggested that they were covering up the extent of the damage . |