Example sentences of "[coord] they [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Or they maybe knocked the horn buds on the sides of the bucket . |
| 2 | This came as a surprise to the band as they had never agreed to play the concert at all and they immediately issued a statement to this effect , fearing that many of their fans were being lured into buying tickets for a Smiths free event . |
| 3 | Gerry Flynn , who still has not fully recovered from a hernia operation , was thrown into the fray against Ards , as was newcomer Fran Hitchcock for his first game , and they both marked the occasion with a goal . |
| 4 | Dr Martin Orne of the University of Pennsylvania told subjects to fake hypnosis and they easily fooled the hypnotist . |
| 5 | The rebels of 1182 had been defeated , but they had weighed up one of their conquerors — and they also saw an opportunity . |
| 6 | Most governments in the old Eastern Bloc were concerned with social discipline , and they also stressed the importance of authority wielded through a strong state , but it would be wrong to see them as Conservative . |
| 7 | The Committee succeeded in preventing drilling up until Friday and they also received the support of the Fintown Development Committee in their stand . |
| 8 | They were a substitute for lugging the TV around , and they also reflected the growth of video games and home computers . |
| 9 | And they also formed the basis for Gorbachev 's concept of ‘ reasonable sufficiency ’ and for the way in which the negotiations on conventional force reductions in Europe were conducted . |
| 10 | That occurred although it took up a large slice of their already-depleted income , and they also ran the risk of getting lung cancer and other smoking related diseases , and placed the health of their children in jeopardy . |
| 11 | They are believed to have made off with silverware and they also took a necklace which the woman was wearing . |
| 12 | Acting Chief Inspector John Hughes-Jones showed them around Rhyl police station and they also paid a visit to the helicopter unit at Bodelwyddan . |
| 13 | The powerful running of the big front man had been a constant threat to Andover all afternoon and they just had no answer as he finally surged through shrugging off vain attempts to check him before delivering the perfect finish . |
| 14 | Some specimens of the trunks of bennettites ( see p 107 ) are among the most spectacular of fossils , and they even attracted the attention of the Etruscans , who included them among their sacred relics more than four thousand years ago ! |
| 15 | Edgar knew his destination and they soon got a taxi . |
| 16 | They found the cutting and scrambled down the slopes of the cutting enjoying the freedom , the old hut looked interesting and they soon explored the area , that had reverted back to nature . |
| 17 | But when they came they were distressing and they particularly distressed the bishop responsible for healing ; because Christians are not supposed to quarrel , and quarrelling about clothes or tinklings or perfume looked like fanaticism or obsession with triviality . |
| 18 | Suddenly , all the lights came on in the hospital and they eventually opened a side-door and let her in . |
| 19 | It was conducted in a in a devastating effect because was totally unchecked and America got the upper hand and they simply played the game by their own favour without giving due consideration to humanitarian or , or even the justice er element and this , this is how the world 's gon na be , and America is an arrogant super power . |
| 20 | The paramedics resuscitated Dawn , who had stopped breathing , and they later received the Queen 's Award for their prompt action . |
| 21 | Their tests were cheaper and apparently fairer than local ‘ home-made ’ ones and they conveniently transferred the odium that selection incurred on to a distant , impartial public body . |
| 22 | The committee was largely made up of Roman catholic clergy , and they clearly opposed the appointment on the grounds that a protestant could not be trusted to safeguard the catholic morals of her charges in her purchase and loaning of books . |
| 23 | As revered advisers to the tribes , the Druids had a very strong political influence , and they clearly saw the advance of Rome as a serious threat to their power and a challenge to their authority . |
| 24 | Before 1970 it was largely left to the Weights and Measures Departments of local authorities to enforce those statutes which gave protection to the consumer of goods and they often took the view that they had no competence to deal with complaints which did not indicate a possible breach of the criminal law . |
| 25 | People became politicised because many of the issues of the day affected them directly , and they often had the chance to give expression to their political feelings through petitions , demonstrations , riots and , for those with the right to vote , at the polls . |
| 26 | They acquired joint and exclusive occupation of the flat in consideration of periodical payments and they therefore acquired a tenancy jointly . |
| 27 | And they still had the night to get through . |
| 28 | Boro scored only their second away win of the season in the FA Premier League — the other was at Manchester City in September — and they fully deserved the success that keeps survival hopes alive . |
| 29 | He wanted to stay straight , but that small glass vial was always being pressed into his hand , it seemed bottomless , the hours passed and they never reached the end . |
| 30 | Well I went to , erm they would n't let me go to work on the aircraft so I left and I went to work and the Walsall Electric Company , it was within Walsall and I was there when V E day happened and er a pal of mine said he knew where I could get this job and oh it was travelling about which I enjoyed and er I , I went then to work for Elwells I was there until I went in the army , but they were very much heavy transport and in those days the opencast mining started happening as well and we were taking diggers about bulldozers and tractors , scrapers for the opencast mining and I remember , in the bad winter of forty-seven , they , they took up a big part of Park , trees and everything and they never found a bit of coal and yet when started levelling off at Darleston , for Bentley Garden Village as it was then called , er they were getting coal out and people were going up with prams , barrows and everything and fetching it all out it was only being levelled for building work , and fetching coal , natural coal off Bentley Common the erm I 've wandering off away from the airport a bit have n't I ? |