Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] [noun] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made a bit more fuss soon afterwards when Erich Honecker , the former East German leader , was whisked out of a Soviet military hospital in the east and flown to Moscow , beyond the reach of German prosecutors . |
| 2 | When they arrived they found the police already there' ( Labour Research , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | They I believe that er a craftsman 's wage was somewhere they 'd a take home pay at the end of the fortnight . |
| 4 | Now that they were the owners of Rafferty 's , they adjusted the rules sufficiently to allow themselves a drink after hours . |
| 5 | They prepared the resus. room , and when all was ready they informed the patients still waiting that they might have a slight delay due to an emergency that was being brought in . |
| 6 | More likely , they followed a route now reduced : like Kipling 's road through the woods , ‘ weather and rain have undone it again and now we shall never know there was once a road through the woods . ’ |
| 7 | On March 26 , 1952 , they signed the agreement now sued upon which has three clauses : ‘ ( 1 ) the husband will pay to the wife for her support and maintenance a weekly sum of One Pound Ten Shillings to be paid every four weeks during the joint lives of the parties so long as the wife shall lead a chaste life the first payment hereunder to be made on the Fifteenth day of April 1952. ( 2 ) The wife will out of the said weekly sum or otherwise support and maintain herself and will indemnify the husband against all debts to be incurred by her and will not in any way at any time hereafter pledge the husband 's credit . |
| 8 | On 15 October hastening back from Berwick , the king , the earl of Kent , Hugh Despenser the younger , and the rest of the court arrived at Bridlington priory where they spent the night before retreating to Burstwick , in Holderness . |
| 9 | They spent the time there swimming and walking , and when the holidays were over they used to return home . |
| 10 | By the second year there was little noticeable change : the threats they feared the year before had not materialised , but neither had much progress been made except that the language of contracts replaced that of budgets and allocations . |
| 11 | As an acoustic duo they took the name Right Said Fred ( suggested by a girlfriend of Fred 's after she 'd heard the 1962 Bernard Cribbins novelty hit of that name on the radio . |
| 12 | Back when no one took any notice of them , they kept the band together to entertain themselves . |
| 13 | They formed a partnership solely to enter the competition , and did no other work together . |
| 14 | So Anglam had been effectively entirely in American hands : they sent the trainees probably nominated the lecturers and when the time came could quietly pull out pleading changes in the American scene which the British directors could n't challenge . |
| 15 | Mostly they were second-rate copies of the kind of American bar-room R&B bands the members of these pub bands had seen in the days when they had a bit more going for them and had actually made it to the States one time in the late sixties or early seventies . |
| 16 | As the PAL:YPE recalls , this impression was based on a combination of physical environment , staff vision , and an existing commitment to an infrastructure including a permanent part-time library assistant : School A I was impressed with , because they too had already started to talk about resource-based learning and they already had as far as I remember … ( now my memory is fairly vague now because it is quite a long time ago ) … but as far as I remember they had a Headmaster , who was extremely interested , very keen indeed , and they had a committee already set up , I think to look into this . |
| 17 | Thus they had a chance actively to project onto me whatever ‘ wickedness ’ they had in their minds . |
| 18 | They had a hospital all lined up , and they 've had to cancel because of staffing problems . |
| 19 | When they spotted the constable stealthily approaching one end , the son at the other would fire his gun . |
| 20 | We were promised a front cover with International Musician and they wanted the band just to pose with their instruments . |