Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then erm , then they had this thing called Niff , which was water , and they came round spraying all of us . |
| 2 | and they had n't given that goal away , they 'd of scored another in that half |
| 3 | Yes but you , you have to buy the whole album and they had n't got that in , they 'd just sold out . |
| 4 | to put these things in ice and they had n't got any of the , of the |
| 5 | But then too late they realized there was only the one power point in the garage and they had n't got enough adaptors to take all the amplifiers and instruments . |
| 6 | They were already the centres of civil administration , often derived from earlier minor kingdoms or tribal units , they usually possessed an early minster church and so were centres of ecclesiastical administration and they had already acquired some marketing functions more important than those of their neighbours . |
| 7 | Her sister 's illness had taken its toll on her looks and they had all spent some very traumatic moments helping her to come to terms with the debilitating condition which had now rendered her legs virtually useless . |
| 8 | It was Rufus 's younger brother Julius who had been in the same form as Adam , a rather dull , pompous boy , a sort of phoney intellectual , and they had never had much to do with one another . |
| 9 | They were friends and they expected never to see each other again . |
| 10 | no and they did n't pay much attention , they always seem intimidated of us |
| 11 | and they heard this crack , and they did n't think much about it , just as , Rita said what you doing ? |
| 12 | And they did n't do that for you . ’ |
| 13 | You did n't do very well over the weekend , did you , 'cos I was watching them and they did n't do that well . |
| 14 | Also Keith thought he could n't have any children because he 'd been out with a girl for a year before I started going out with him and they did n't take any precautions and she never got pregnant . |
| 15 | They were ill because their clothes were not warm and they did n't have much food . |
| 16 | national vocation I I really think that it 's worse because they 've not , whereas when I was a trainee you had your six weeks on produce , your six weeks on whatever in the branch of that now and they did n't have that , they have n't got any training plan , so they 've got nothing to say well career , branch branch need here and I need to be here and I need to be here . |
| 17 | That 's right erm and of course and they did n't have that little bit of luck perhaps . |
| 18 | And they did n't have all this er legislation about redundancy money or anything then ? |
| 19 | They were full of words and they did n't have any pictures . |
| 20 | I do n't normally but we went to Sainsbury 's and they did n't have any milk . |
| 21 | And they did n't have enough classes |
| 22 | ‘ We were doing certain things we felt were recommended by the Institute and they did n't understand that . ’ |
| 23 | Under rubble in bomb-sites and they did n't get any nice flat stone with writing either . |
| 24 | You know , rather like getting an adverse smear test , and before you know where you are you 've convinced yourself you 've got cancer when it was probably just a lousy smear and they did n't get enough cells . |
| 25 | The two companies said the Ministry of Defence had been supportive of their approach and they did not anticipate any regulatory problems . |
| 26 | Defence lawyer Mr Gerry Trainor pleaded that others living there were not objecting and they did not intend any trouble . |
| 27 | At Cambridge she met her first husband , Sebastian Manning , who introduced her to a world in which socialism , far from being ridiculous , was natural , chic , colourful , confident , artistic : Sebastian 's parents were artists of some repute , one a painter , the other a potter , and they did not think much of the austerities of Dr Leavis . |
| 28 | The Committee point out that a ‘ general ban on twin-tracking would deprive 3 million people of the right to be a councillor ’ ( Widdicombe 1986:112 ) and they did not believe this to be justified . |
| 29 | He said there were 4 potential wage earners in the household but they had n't made any payment for 17 months . |
| 30 | It was old news , but they had n't seen each other to talk of it . |