Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 32 | The agreement included a feature whereby all French banks agreed among themselves to bill their French trader customers affiliated to the payment system of Eurocheque a commission equivalent to that which they charged them on payment effected by holders of their credit or debit cards . |
| 33 | With a great part of the matters with which they dealt we have not much concern . |
| 34 | He told me he sometimes hated his face , hated his body because of the ease with which they helped him to dominate others . |
| 35 | The dominant male of the period , like Kenneth More or Michael Dennison , was sexless , full of ‘ common sense ’ , above all , decent : the exaggerated nature of the Edwardians ' dress , its appropriation from middle-class roots , and the obsessional nature with which they pursued it , all spoke of people who did not know their place . |
| 36 | A witness at the trial of two men accused of the murder of a police informer has claimed that one defendent drove the victim to a meeting with the other , who them killed him . |
| 37 | Mind you they brought me back . |
| 38 | Well I 'm telling you they stuck it they had a sort of flat bottomed cart and they used to stick it in and when they came there they , they lifted it off and stuck it in the ground and it was just similar to that only it was hooped |
| 39 | It gave me a temporary Equity card — mind you they took it away again as soon as I had done the four weeks work . |
| 40 | If they liked you they believed they could teach you to do anything and by God ! you 'd do , it as well as anyone . |
| 41 | And they would n't mess about if you , you they slapped you if you did n't do as you were told . |
| 42 | I assure you they did it 's hard working down there for so long it |
| 43 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |
| 44 | It has been clear for some time that the Al Fayeds are not who they said they were in 1985 . |
| 45 | I knew it was so necessary and just applied myself to doing everything they told me . ’ |
| 46 | You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater |
| 47 | It was a contemptuous sop of a clue , something they thought they could afford , but it might be useful . |
| 48 | Or something they thought he had . ’ |
| 49 | I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things |
| 50 | I do n't have to look too far back in there when we started this whole process , four or five years of throwing it all up in the air to say that I felt every pupil could comment in some way , something that they had enjoyed , something they felt they 'd been successful at , something they felt they found difficult , something that had pleased them , surely every child could comment on wo , if it 's just one of those things |
| 51 | I must have been partly stupefied by something they gave me . |
| 52 | The one they took him for in the end , she was eighty-five years old , and ailing , and he robbed her of her life-savings , and that was less than three hundred pounds . |
| 53 | A paper cup , empty coke can or washing-up liquid container placed in the right position will explain to even the most ardent disbeliever that their swing really is out-to-in and not the most beautiful inside one they thought it was ! |
| 54 | They never rung any more about that one they said you |
| 55 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
| 56 | Akram added : ‘ I do n't know why they changed the ball but I am glad they did because the one they gave us was newer and in better condition than the previous one . ’ |
| 57 | Today staff have been preparing to welcome 2 young men whom they thought they might never see again . |
| 58 | Whilst driving through London , Stephen Waldorf was shot several times and severely injured by officers who confused him with another person whom they said they were seeking to capture . |
| 59 | Lobbyists must report contributions without specifying whom they gave them to . |
| 60 | It reflects a conception of themselves inherited from the theory of their nature and place in a slave society , a theory they shared with the slave owners , and from whom they learned it . |