Example sentences of "[coord] they [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sons of Harras were also imported to the USA and they also proved of great importance . |
| 2 | ‘ Police blocked farmers from coming inside and they just stood in front shouting and calling messages over a loud hailer . ’ |
| 3 | Mrs Bradshaw had met my mother a couple of times and they plainly approved of each other . |
| 4 | These temples and their priestly organiza-tions came under serious threat in times of anarchy and economic recession and they probably suffered from serious depredations in the late third century . |
| 5 | Most of them retained their medieval walls and intricate street patterns and they often served as ecclesiastical or secular centres of administration , but their major role was to act as retail , handicraft and distribution points for wide hinterlands . |
| 6 | There was no board outside proclaiming it to be a guest house , or hotel , so if it was n't , and they only took in private guests , or friends , she could hardly go dumping herself on them just on the recommendation of someone called Annie , could she ? |
| 7 | In my day we treated our old heroes right and they only played for 10 bob a week . |
| 8 | And they still relied on traditional arguments about the authority of Scripture in order to establish certain beliefs that were ‘ above ’ although not ‘ contrary to ’ reason , for instance resurrection of the dead . |
| 9 | Instead of sitting lost in their own thoughts or sleeping , the patients had been stimulated and they now chatted to each other as they recalled the places , the people or the events of the past . |
| 10 | The excise laws were widely regarded by the Irish as unnecessarily strict , and they certainly resulted in harsh repressive measures being taken by excise officers , often in conjunction with military forces , although there is ample evidence that both sides resorted to violence at times . |
| 11 | It took Quakers 19 minutes to produce any noteworthy effort , a Nick Cusack left-foot shot that slipped just wide of the post , and they almost equalised after 29 minutes when Fashanu flicked Andy Toman 's left wing corner against his own bar but the rebound fell to a Torquay defender . |
| 12 | In 1983 , the two unions finally established a loose ‘ railway federation ’ ( which TSSA declined to join ) , and they subsequently worked in close co-ordination in areas such as the presentation of annual pay claims and a programme of opposition to cuts in services . |
| 13 | I had never seen them before and they obviously came from some very rural place in the Apennines . |
| 14 | He knew precisely what she was doing and made a face at her , but they both listened with real interest to what Suvarov had to say . |
| 15 | So they , they welcomed the idea of a separation of powers but they also insisted on another principle , probably the most important principle of American government , and that is the principle of federalism . |
| 16 | Next in was Ocean Quest on 11 December , with a time of 16 days , 10 hr , 9 min and 22 sec , but they also motored for many hours . |
| 17 | I sometimes used to help him out with double dates , but they always ended with both girls squabbling over yours truly and Stuart sulking in the corner and displaying all the charisma of a limpet . |
| 18 | The NIBA too had to battle all the way against the PBA , but they only failed on one rink — that skipped by Rathfriland 's Gary McIlroy was beaten 26–14 by Eamon McCann . |
| 19 | But they never thought in those terms . |
| 20 | Whether Drake was the first person to introduce potatoes to Britain is a matter of debate , but they certainly came to this country as stores aboard the ships which sailed to South America on missions of pillage and plunder in the 16th Century . |