Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most mothers felt they were coping better and were under far less strain ; tension had reduced between them and their children and spouses . |
| 2 | If the vote had gone against them , the bombs would have been a gesture of defiance ; as it is , they are sheer triumphalism . |
| 3 | Even if the vote had gone against them today they 'd probably have flouted it even then . |
| 4 | Why should I imagine any harm had come to them ? |
| 5 | Looking some people in the face I could see what 15 years of hard work had done to them . |
| 6 | It was just like last night again , when the mood had changed between them and she had left to go to bed , filled with regrets . |
| 7 | It was certainly good to read that so many people had never felt healthier or had more energy ; and I was gratified to hear from those who had previously attempted to diet but without success that this diet had worked for them . |
| 8 | On 22 March few outside of their immediate circle had heard of them . |
| 9 | About 160 B.C. an original thinker had emerged among them , Aristobulus , who applied allegorical interpretation to the Bible and paved the way for Philo . |
| 10 | No one , it seemed , wanted to know about rocks , no matter what cunning designs Nature had created in them . |
| 11 | By then the mist had lifted and sharp needles of rain had driven into them relentlessly . |
| 12 | There were no street lights any more and cars could n't use their headlights , and it was being said that more people were being killed this way than if a real war had come upon them . |
| 13 | During 1949 as the first stage of the tram scrapping programme was drawing near , V. J. Matterface , formerly of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways and now Tramways Engineer to Leeds City Transport , was able to persuade his new masters that the modern Feltham cars might be a good buy when London Transport had finished with them . |
| 14 | Dealers would repeat this parrot fashion in the same optimistic note that the director had used on them . |
| 15 | Mr Flood the butcher had looked at them very strangely as they walked up the street . |
| 16 | An alternative way of examining this example might be to see the individuals as employees or representatives of the organisation , and thus as exercising the rights the organisation had gained for them through the treaty , independent of their member States . |
| 17 | They were all scanning the forest 's depths now and Snizort saw that a sudden stillness and an intense wariness had stolen over them , as if whatever was moving out there in the Forest was strange and alien and menacing . |
| 18 | He glared across the breakfast table at them , quenching the morning cheerfulness in the kitchen , and fiercely examined them at tea-time as if to see what the day had done to them . |
| 19 | In 1888 , a decade after total estrangement had come between them , Nietzsche was still able to look back to his days with Wagner at Tribschen as " days of trust , optimism , sublime accidents , profound moments " . |
| 20 | Sheilagh , a farmer 's wife , had been widowed at the same time as had Mrs Knelle , and a bond had formed between them . |
| 21 | Nit-picking legalists — and how that tribunal looked loaded with them — will say the two fines for one offence are not because Lamb exposed Pakistan . |
| 22 | The erotic quality had drained from them and they seemed like sepia prints in an album of someone else 's relations . |
| 23 | As suddenly as they had begun , the two men disengaged , as though some unspoken signal had passed between them , and resumed their wary circling . |
| 24 | The blankness had gone from them , he noticed with satisfaction . |
| 25 | The door swung shut behind them . |
| 26 | The door had shut behind them . |
| 27 | ‘ Well ? ’ she asked once the door had closed on them . |
| 28 | Now the door had closed on them in three more weeks scheduled for Spain . |
| 29 | Free from the constraints of didacticism , allowing his particular example to make a point without feeling he had to underline it , he showed in The Albatross four sharply realised apprentices learning too late the lessons of experience which greed and folly had brought to them . |
| 30 | The sudden , brief Egyptian twilight had come upon them while they were looking at the boat . |