Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [conj] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I asked if they wanted anything and she said a bed at the cottage hospital |
| 2 | ‘ I applied but they turned me down . ’ |
| 3 | I glowed when they gave me their expert c , pinion that I was in most respects ‘ a normal young man ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I checked and they said no-one has attempted it yet . ’ |
| 5 | I supported it partly on the recommendation of the warden of the teachers ' centre and partly because I felt that they needed something positive because of the merger . |
| 6 | Soraya burst into tears ; the Shah went white and then declared , " I knew that they loved me . " |
| 7 | " I knew that they loved me , " he had declared with emotion in Rome . |
| 8 | I kept up a close correspondence with my parents , partly because I knew that they missed me , and partly from natural inclination and affection . |
| 9 | I thought that they appointed somebody in charge . |
| 10 | Oh I thought , I thought and they let him go and I thought if you said that , you know bit unbelievable . |
| 11 | I wept when they lowered her coffin into the ground . |
| 12 | I said like they say it in films . |
| 13 | I wondered if they had one called Hemlock for the really ill . |
| 14 | Well that was where the the Where Argyll and them came and they burnt it down . |
| 15 | ‘ Pregnancy suits you , ’ she added as they made their way slowly back to the house . |
| 16 | you meant that they thought it was a good thing to do . |
| 17 | She smiled as they passed her by , and they saw revealed what Timothy Gedge had claimed : her beauty was marred by discoloured teeth . |
| 18 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 19 | The insults to the queen , I mean she grimaced when they said it and she had |
| 20 | Put in isolation , she washed when they told her to , ate what they gave her . |
| 21 | She did n't know what that prayer was but she wondered if they meant it or if to most of them it was … just words and phrases . |
| 22 | ‘ Mrs Tandy remembers Kensal Green when it was a desirable area , ’ she explained as they reached her flat . |
| 23 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 24 | because they realized that they needed it to invent something to fall in to what they 've already got . |
| 25 | This they avoided as they followed their Head Girl 's strict instructions to keep out of the rough areas . |
| 26 | They stopped when they saw him , then dived right and left , but at fifty yards the rifle was lethal and Sharpe saw his bullet lift a man clean off the ground . |
| 27 | they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia |
| 28 | Because they believed and they got me to believe at the time , that nationalization would be the cure for all our ills . |
| 29 | But they took people in Angola and Zambia and they murdered and they raped them . |
| 30 | they came and they said we had a free booking . |