Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 41-year-old carpenter is claiming £200,000 from the toilet firm , alleging they failed to clean and maintain their equipment on a building site . |
| 2 | With sin and corruption , doom and catastrophe , threatening on every side , the only danger from the clergy came if they failed to know or do their job . |
| 3 | When that did not work they tried pumping or spraying it on to neighbouring fields , hoping it would filter through the ground by natural causes . |
| 4 | The trees , ’ she swallowed , ' the trees , they seemed to groan and wave their arms about . ’ |
| 5 | Both maids came out , and although there were only two of them they seemed to surround and overwhelm her , not threateningly , but eagerly as though she brought gifts . |
| 6 | They spent the day chanting and dancing , and when they came to walk and climb they could be heard speaking Chinese , a language none of them could speak during the rest of the year . |
| 7 | As they prepared to leave and resume their homeward journey , Jack decided to take a last look around the parcels office . |
| 8 | They started kissing and fondling me . |
| 9 | Encouraged by stories of sun , sea and wealth from Marjorie Gedge 's brother , who was living in Cape Town , South Africa , they decided to uproot and join him . |
| 10 | In the December issue we asked readers what they considered to be their most treasured possessions in the home and whether they preferred to use or admire them . |
| 11 | But they denied throwing and smashing their beer glasses at the pub . |
| 12 | The evaluators found that in some schools library committees had become moribund , and although this was often blamed on industrial action , some people did seem to have lost interest once they had received and spent their grant . |
| 13 | Of course it was right : this poor owd cow , she ran right across these fields there , what they call Brookey 's Wood ; and they had to go and fetch her . |
| 14 | No one asked that question , they simply focused upon er the , the communist insurrection in the south and the American , American commitment to the global containment of communism meant that they had to go and do something about it and domestic political pressures were there too er President Kennedy came out of the Cuban missiles crisis a hero because his people mistakenly believed that he 'd won a foreign policy success and that he 'd acted in a restrained and statesmanlike manor . |
| 15 | They had to go and give him some support and they put up quite a good fight . |
| 16 | They had to go and possess it . |
| 17 | They had to dismount and force their way through , past the Conduit and the Tun and up a small alleyway which led into the Bear and Ragged Staff . |
| 18 | In working on these activities the class had worked systematically and persistently ; they had collaborated in pairs and groups ; they had identified patterns and structures in the sequences ; they had made predictions and tested them ; they had explained and justified their reasoning to me and to each other ; they had worked practically to understand the sequence and how it could model a real life situation . |
| 19 | ‘ It is natural for men to tell tales , and I suppose the short story was created in the night of time when the hunter , to beguile the leisure of his fellows when they had eaten and drunk their fill , narrated by the cavern fire some fantastic incident he had hear of . ’ |
| 20 | His mother looked nervously at them as they came in long after dark — she was obdurately against the recalling of ‘ the bad old times ’ and she would neither ask them what they had seen nor let them tell her . |
| 21 | They had seen and heard nothing unusual . |
| 22 | They had seen and photographed everything that had happened . |
| 23 | The Americans could take this a little further , but after Schweinfurt they had to stop and lick their wounds ; and so this leads on to the inevitable topic when I am confronted with the audiences I meet in all those places . |
| 24 | Perhaps they had discovered and used their secret love-nest during the lazier days of the summer . |
| 25 | French legionaries have been drowned while encamped in wadis draining from the southern Atlas of Algeria , due to the rapid advance of floods from storms in the high mountains of which they had heard or seen nothing . |
| 26 | As they drove off , the LRDG boys said that they had heard and seen everything and had just had to stay to the end . |
| 27 | They had read and understood it even before their own children were removed . |
| 28 | After a time David relaxed and joined in , complimenting Felicity , chaffing her husband and turning often to Julia to remind-her of earlier conversations they had had or to ask her opinion . |
| 29 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 30 | They lit the candles they had brought and made their way along a passage which led out of the chamber , gazing wordlessly — he could n't remember that they had spoken at all while in there — at the arched limestone walls , at the tunnels that from time to time branched from this central artery , once into a wide gallery whose egress had been blocked by a fall of stone . |