Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here they accepted others cannoning into their backs as they ate and occasionally dripping overflowing beer glasses on to their tables or even down their necks . |
| 2 | The nurses were well trained in dealing with rich patients who were used to doing as they pleased and often disliked accepting the discipline of routine ; they knew that the very old , the alcoholics , and the more than slightly batty patients ( called ‘ eccentric ’ ) had to be carefully supervised . |
| 3 | They heard and then stopped heading the wind breathing in the trees overhead and the stream rustling in the valley . |
| 4 | ‘ Well , there was that young man they arrested and then let go , and Mr Willard , of course , and who knows how many others ? |
| 5 | But they did and still do remain the authoritative conscience of the nation . |
| 6 | In his study Sir Richard asked all 34,000 doctors in Britain what they smoked and then began to monitor the causes of death of those doctors . |