Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurses who have married or had children since they last nursed may be intellectually aware of what unsocial hours can mean , but if they have not actually experienced them recently they can be caught unprepared . |
| 2 | He does not greatly care for the dark purplish bathroom suite ( ‘ Damson ’ , the estate agent 's brochure had called the shade ) but it had been one of the things that attracted Marjorie when they bought the house two years ago — the bathroom , with its kidney-shaped handbasin and goldplated taps and sunken bath and streamlined loo and bidet . |
| 3 | But it did sell ‘ prime promotion space ’ — the shelves at the end of each island unit that faced customers as they entered the door , and allowed four or five copies to face outwards . |
| 4 | In other words , I wanted to study the members ( and their parents and other persons ) as individuals ; I wanted to study the kinds of interactions that took place when they took account of each other ( Weber , 1947 , p. 88 ) ; and , at a more abstract level than most of the participants would be aware of , I wanted to note sociological phenomena such as power structures , communication networks and the unintended consequences of the beliefs and practices of the movement . |
| 5 | And er the foreman and bosses that knew people and they knew the circumstances and I suppose they put a word in and erm you know men were sort of stopped because er I mean , if a man had a house full of children or something , he 'd probably be the very last you know before he was sort of forced to g you know sacked or wh And I mean they were n't sacked in a sense , they was always ready there was a place ready for them to come back to there . |
| 6 | He put the back of his hand on each forehead and asked Nellie if they 'd complained about pains in the ear . |
| 7 | By noon all the squadron 's reserve aircraft were in use , and the mechanics were sucking blood from cut fingers and grazed knuckles as they worked too fast on battered planes which had just creaked home with streaming canvas and smashed spars , or labouring engines , or cracked fuel lines , or crippled controls , or lopsided under-carriage . |
| 8 | Erm , it was called the Marseillaise , erm , because the volunteers from Marseilles came up from the south , and entered Paris and they were singing , erm , this one . |
| 9 | Inevitably it was into the long rows of tents , pavilions and blanketed men that they plunged . |
| 10 | On Feb. 19 an estimated 5,000-8,000 miners from the Jiul Valley area arrived in Bucharest to show their support for the NSF and promised Iliescu that they would get rid of the " hooligans " . |
| 11 | Receivers want to sell for cash to satisfy debenture holders and secured creditors and they generally want to sell quickly before the business has deteriorated to the extent of being unsaleable . |
| 12 | England until almost the 1850s , when sometimes labouring men , particularly in country districts , might never have a fire in their hearths or taste meat all week , and faced death if they trapped a rabbit on the local lord-of-the-manor 's land . |
| 13 | And what if the request for attention conflicts with our own similar need , as in the incident we described in Chapter I under ‘ Babies and Bathwater ’ , where both partners were tired and needed recognition before they could meet the similar need in the other . |
| 14 | Piper sat in his room and counted birds as they passed the high window . |
| 15 | She came downstairs , hung on the wall a portrait of himself that Robin had painted , and his easel below it ; and gave orders that they were not to be removed . |
| 16 | Tons of food have been sent to Somalia but armed gangs have hijacked lorries , plundered stores and intercepted convoys before they can reach starving villagers . |
| 17 | Members held raffles and donated cash until they had enough for the Olympic bar . |
| 18 | British missionaries started arriving in the early 1800s and convinced Fijians that they should wear clothes . |
| 19 | Some of the young were moved by Nicholson ; he was human and had pathos and they needed dogma . |
| 20 | I might have married and had children and they might have hated me . |
| 21 | They need to remember that even Jesus did not primarily draw attention to himself , but taught men that they could find the Father through the way he showed , the truth he revealed , and the life he lived . |
| 22 | Clarissa agreed but reminded Charles that they must hurry . |