Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [conj] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well … time passed and they fungused . |
| 2 | Bicker estimated that they had put some three miles between themselves and the scene of the attack . |
| 3 | Well actually how I got into it was I was idle at the time and er my two chums were French polishers and as I 've said and they said , Er now would you like to come in and try it ? |
| 4 | Erm quite like these actually , there slip on 's and , and they 've got and they got erm studs |
| 5 | Why should organisations such as the NFoL , the NVALA and others have developed when they did ? |
| 6 | The Jewish people seem to be in a continuous latency period in that they have forgotten that they murdered Moses , and , before him , the Primal Father . |
| 7 | I have talked to lady presidents of prior years who have said that they did not experience any difficulties . |
| 8 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
| 9 | The fund managers have said that any investors who have suffered because they bought or sold at incorrect prices will be compensated . |
| 10 | But where the uproar has come from is from people who have thought that they had got binding court agreements . |
| 11 | Mr Morris said : ‘ Many of the investors in Barlow Clowes were elderly people and some 500 have died since they lost their money . |
| 12 | Successive generations of trees got taller and taller , but at the end they might better , in one sense , have stayed where they started . |
| 13 | Some survivors from ‘ dive-in ’ accidents have confirmed that they knew it was useless to try to pull out of the dive while they could ‘ feel ’ the glider was still stalled . |
| 14 | This Act has been used successfully by motorists , who have discovered that they had been deceived about the previous mileage covered by a second-hand car . |
| 15 | Both McLean and Burgess have denied that they forced soil and debris into the victim 's mouth , choking her to death . |
| 16 | Ancient woodlands , seemingly wild , have survived because they had a value for our ancestors . |