Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb past] [conj] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the foot of the mound they halted and peered up at the statue , eerie under its glaze of ice , which stared sightlessly far above their heads . |
| 2 | Last week they came and took away my colour TV . |
| 3 | If the Masai had an educational system of their own which was functioning well according to their own criteria , there was no reason for them to view with favour the introduction into it , by people whose hegemony they accepted but did not welcome , of alien elements . |
| 4 | On the fourth day Jennifer put together every last farthing they possessed and went across to Fowey to visit the apothecary , returning with a malodorous syrup which her mother vomited up within seconds of swallowing . |
| 5 | This responsibility might or might not involve wage labour , marriage and unpaid domestic work , although there was always some of it whatever situation they lived and worked in . |
| 6 | The Masai moran customarily spent ten to fifteen years of warriorhood living communally , apart from their families and under the supervision of specially designated elders , in warrior villages , or manyattas , at the end of which time they married and settled down . |