Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] [noun] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of the twenty-seven staff who made written responses gave the book two stars for pupil popularity , i.e. ‘ very popular ’ ; two of them reported that girls had complained about ‘ having to read about male heroes ’ and that The Machine Gunners , which ‘ girls see as a boy 's book ’ , had frequently been the impetus for such comments . |
| 2 | All the fathers of the early church saw the Devil as holding rights over this world , but some of them believed that God had to pay him his dues in order to win back the world . |
| 3 | Some of them believed that NASA had arranged it all for precisely that reason . |
| 4 | More of them thought that changes had occurred in administration , with more paperwork and more meetings being the most frequently mentioned aspects . |
| 5 | They objected because Nkrumah had set up a ‘ Ghana National College ’ for the education of students expelled because of their support during the banishment of the Big Six ; they objected to his launching of the Accra Evening News , an anti-colonial voice which achieved immediate popularity ; most of all they objected to his Committee on Youth Organisation , set up as a branch of the UGCC . |
| 6 | They believed that peoples had to go from one stage to another with mechanical regularity and in predictable order . |
| 7 | At other times they claimed that Kylie had negotiated a one million dollar contract to return to Neighbours — a story which Kylie described as wildly untrue . |
| 8 | Commentators analysing the results said that they showed that voters had rewarded the NSF for its efforts over the past six months , had opted for gradual change , and supported a political grouping which showed far greater coherence than the fragmented opposition . |
| 9 | They observed that birds start to put on weight soon after establishing a territory ( Figure 7.7a ) . |
| 10 | Then they discovered that Richter had tried to enhance the energy at the centre of his reactor by supplementing the sparks with acoustic energy . |
| 11 | After the war was over they heard that Claudia had died . |
| 12 | Minutes later they heard that Sokolnitz had fallen to the Russians , and the whole of the enemy right was threatened with collapse . |
| 13 | The first from play and the second from a penalty and both combined to provide Monaghan with the incentive they needed after Cavan had threatened to overrun them . |
| 14 | They knew that Ian had taken er or was about to take some and they knew that er |
| 15 | They all knew what had happened the previous night and , from Wallas Ward 's announcement before the curtain rose , they knew that Charles had stepped in at very short notice . |
| 16 | He denounced the ‘ vainglorious erections … of … gorgeous edifices with … lofty and defiant spires ’ because they proved that Nonconformity had become ‘ tainted with the spirit of the world ’ . |
| 17 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 18 | They waited until Joscelyn had walked away , roaring their order into the kitchen . |
| 19 | Reversing back a little , they waited until Joe began crossing the intersection between Penzance Gardens and Princedale Road . |
| 20 | If Zuwaya disliked policemen as a category , and took pride in not being related to any , that was in part because in the past ordinary people got their main experience of corruption and venality in the first instance from the police , and that reputation stuck ; and partly also because they recognized that policemen had divided loyalties and could not be trusted to be loyal exclusively to their kinsmen . |
| 21 | Furthermore they concluded that farmers had used this political power to prevent new employment in order to keep farm wages lower , and to keep rural council house building rates at a minimum so as to keep farm workers tied to their cottages . |
| 22 | They embraced and Sunil began to sob . |