Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [noun] [subord] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arrest warrants were issued for two former Central Bank officials implicated in the scandal after they failed to appear to testify before the Senate . |
| 2 | But why were n't they buried in the cemetery after they were shot ? |
| 3 | It was an awful noise like little kids you heard in the street when they fell down and their Mums dragged them along the pavement . |
| 4 | The curly-haired Moi were wearing only breechclouts , and their naked haunches gleamed in the lamplight as they moved vigorously around the platform ; beside her pale-skinned sons , their glistening bodies looked almost black . |
| 5 | ‘ But it is doing the same vital work in deep space that Captain Cook and his colleagues did in the oceans when they classified longitudes and meridians . ’ |
| 6 | A POLICEMAN was kneed in the groin and another punched in the face as they tried to break up brawling schoolgirls at a railway station . |
| 7 | Wednesday , it must have Thursday , well he sat in the store as they called him . |