Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun sg] [conj] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN WE first got to New York , the reporters met the boat and because they printed our names in the papers the Stage Door Johnnies started pestering us ; they were a completely different sort from the European ones . |
| 2 | With a few words of explanation Sophie made the introduction and as they walked together into the house her godmother said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've got some news which wo n't please you , but first of all I want to hear yours . ’ |
| 3 | Then Patrick changed the subject and when they were all away on the new tack he took Rain aside . |
| 4 | On the grass in the ruins of the historic priory , surrounded by parochial banners , Ramsey told the crowd that though they were outside the modern diocese of Durham , this was their true home . |
| 5 | In the first place , I always threatened the orchestra that if they played too loudly I would simply lower them by ten centimetres ; and if they continued , then by the end of the first act they would be in the dungeon . |
| 6 | Brown and Kulik ( 1977 ) were struck by the fact that people were generally able to answer this question without difficulty , the important point being not that they remembered the assassination but that they remembered apparently irrelevant details such as where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news . |
| 7 | It said that far too many teachers had the perception that unless they followed the good practice set down by local authority advisers , their career prospects in the city would be blighted . |
| 8 | Starting in the early 1970s , Newman , and his then all-white collective , embraced the notion that while they would form an intellectual vanguard , the black community would produce ‘ organic ’ leaders of its own . |