Example sentences of "they [vb past] [subord] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It brought a tragic end to a love story that began when they met as they walked their dogs after each had lost a marriage partner to cancer . |
| 2 | This they avoided as they followed their Head Girl 's strict instructions to keep out of the rough areas . |
| 3 | They stopped when they saw him , then dived right and left , but at fifty yards the rifle was lethal and Sharpe saw his bullet lift a man clean off the ground . |
| 4 | Well when , yes where they rented when they sold theirs |
| 5 | The girls all had wodges of visiting cards in their stocking tops which they threw as they grabbed their victim , and these had the Boozebusters logo — a picture of a drunk in a red circle , with a red slash — and Simon 's phone number on them . |
| 6 | They prayed before they cooked their food . |
| 7 | They prayed before they planted their seeds . |
| 8 | Thomas quietly bought them another cup of coffee each , and they giggled when they realized it and clinked the thick coffee mugs with him before carrying on with their conversation as if he were n't there . |
| 9 | How they puffed themselves up to outstrip others in their pleasure-giving powers , how they boomed when they protested they 'd avenge assaults on her innocence by others . |
| 10 | Television documentary-makers asked them , respectfully , about exactly how they felt when they hacked their aged mothers to death or disembowelled a neighbour 's child . |
| 11 | There was a lot of support from your colleagues if you were in trouble for the very reason that they knew if they gave you help , you 'd automatically give it them . |
| 12 | They laughed when they saw her . |
| 13 | Disregarding an order to halt , the knights advanced on the English and as they did so they drove their Genoese crossbowmen before them . |
| 14 | They should all be ‘ under one roof ’ : that was what mattered , and what they did when they got there was an issue of relative indifference . |
| 15 | Get the bomb squad out any way , but erm , the British army has got a lot of important that 's they way we would fight the Russians , take over a small hamlet , mortify it and that 's how the only way we would ever up the Russian 's grass nest , they take it very seriously , so what they did if they tell us how to do it , walks us through , show us what to do , let us do it and then they 'd make us do it again , but without any mistakes and that , it was really good and they showed us how to er mortify up a house , go , going through all the sewers and stuff is quite fun |
| 16 | But his skill at political in-fighting and his doctrinal tussles with Mensheviks and renegade Bolsheviks only took on the importance they did because they led his party to positions which found a response within the wider revolutionary movement . |
| 17 | The sound of the crash turned every head , and they smiled as they saw her hustled away towards his office . |
| 18 | They smiled as they caught his eye . |