Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often they turned out to be more like shocks , and she disliked the tension , the agitation , the feeling of disruption that frequently accompanied them . |
| 2 | At once the tiny girl was crushed in a one-armed embrace from Richard that almost unbalanced them both . |
| 3 | Yeah but apparently apparently that were n't hi his Am that was his American car that nearly hit them but th Brian had sold that to a bloke down in down your mum 's road . |
| 4 | When we grouped the sectors approximately into local government districts and then ranked them on density of oil workers , this ranking coincided with that based on data for offshore workers in the 1981 census , suggesting that our data was not affected by geographic bias . |
| 5 | In particular the fact that so many officials had bought their offices and thus made them their personal property ( see p. 126 ) made it very hard to dismiss them , since the government could seldom afford to refund the purchase price . |
| 6 | This was a powerful low-frequency sound system which blasted the audience with low-frequency pulses and physically shook them . |
| 7 | Although Miller stated that he had collected most of the information from well-known authors and always acknowledged them , there are instances when the first person indicated his own contributions . |
| 8 | Discredited and abused , the Junta retreated before the French , first to Seville , then to Cadiz : there its members resigned , to be insulted by the ‘ patriots ’ of Cadiz who searched their baggage for stolen government funds and finally imprisoned them . |
| 9 | In pursuit of the action Campbell had caught about 80 of the creatures on a piece of sticky tape and then forwarded them to a zoologist . |
| 10 | It is good because Léon Bonn at , a loyal son of Bayonne , first collected these pictures and then left them to the town , which responded by building a small palace in which to show them . |
| 11 | We knocked them out of their rhythm and never allowed them to settle or sustain any momentum and I felt their frustrations were beginning to surface . |
| 12 | Theda put trembling fingers to her lips and then stretched them out unconsciously . |
| 13 | Since the war , every spell of Anfield success has been set or kept in motion by the signing of a top-class ‘ striker-cum-provider ’ a player who not only scored goals but also made them for his colleagues . |
| 14 | Emily felt angry words rise to her lips but quickly suppressed them , this was neither the time nor the place to argue Craig 's innocence . |
| 15 | How happy it is to see with what zeal and what promptitude all over the country the working population have exhibited their readiness to take advantage of the opportunities when once afforded them . |
| 16 | But instinctively she knew she had what she wanted — the frames that would lend just the breadth and depth she needed to complete her picture story of the couture shows , and she let her camera fall back on its strap around her neck , rubbing her aching eyes and running her fingers up under the thick fringe of dark blonde hair that barely skimmed them . |
| 17 | She let her attention return to the vista that almost surrounded them , since the glass of the cockpit extended right under her feet . |
| 18 | Fortunately , there was a small cell of opinion within the Air Ministry that passionately believed they knew the reason for the failure and , more importantly , felt that they also knew the answer . |
| 19 | Nor would there be any copying of Western market and property forms , with the unemployment and inequality that inevitably accompanied them . |
| 20 | The IBA 's increasing concern for programme standards and balance , plus pressure from the smaller companies that rightly felt they had more and more production potential to offer , added to the complications . |
| 21 | Evidence suggests that working class wives were prepared to put up with occasional drinking bouts by their husbands and the physical abuse that sometimes accompanied them rather than lose the economic support normally provided . |
| 22 | He collected the leftovers in his customers ' beer mugs and afterwards re-sold them as a special brew . |
| 23 | He drove the plane back into the circuit and again forced them to let him through . |
| 24 | More senior men had perhaps less freedom to diversify , although in the south they all kept gardens and sometimes worked them themselves . |
| 25 | She gave her daughter a look which combined challenge and malice and then left them . |
| 26 | I walked alongside the men at the head of the column and soon learned they were the Black Watch , a well-known Scottish regiment . |
| 27 | And sewed on the sewing machine and then painted them all with raw linseed oil but raw linseed oil took a long while to dry but they soft . |
| 28 | He did n't like to think he was the kind of person who took things from strangers in pubs and then passed them off as presents to girls he was supposed to love . |
| 29 | On Junction Buttress , Malc Taylor put All my Pegs in one Basket and then left them in the obvious overhanging crack , which is now E7 6c . |
| 30 | France made it clear to New Zealand that it would allow more imports of lamb and dairy products into France if New Zealand reduced the charge against the couple to manslaughter and then deported them . |