Example sentences of "[subord] they [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They deliberately looked for inconsistencies where they basically knew I 'd told them but two aspects of the truth , in the hope that I 'd blurt out the real truth about something else in my fright and confusion . |
| 2 | On 18 December 1689 the anniversary of William 's first entrance into London was cele-brated with a huge procession through the City , as crowds carried effigies of James 's chief ministers through the streets to Temple Bar , where they ritualistically hanged them at a " triple galloes " set up next to a great bonfire . |
| 3 | Pargesa , Groupe Bruxelles Lambert and Banque Internationale decided to sell their Ansbacher stakes in June 1990 , although they later withdrew them because of the uncertainty caused by the Gulf War . |
| 4 | Although they never said it , he knew their bitterness stemmed from the fact that he would be in charge of the operation . |
| 5 | And how often those opinions can really surprise us ; a young woman patient who had four hearty older brothers told me that , although they always treated her well , she always felt completely insignificant beside them . |
| 6 | It was a wet morning so they just took him to the corner and ran him to the corner of Richmond Row in his bare feet — brought him back — ‘ Put your shoes on ! ’ |
| 7 | I only had about two inches of rectum left , and they said cancer was a possibility , so they just took it all out . |
| 8 | In the nineteen sixties an awful lot of er of stuff went , er or was just allowed to er to get into bad repair , and of course er B R were n't terribly interested so they just abandoned it . |
| 9 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 10 | and erm , we 've , we 've sorted out the balance up till the end of December , so they actually owed us money , even though |
| 11 | The Scouts had rushed skiddingly from one pod to the next , annihilating languid swanky drugsters , warbling liquorites , squirming orgiasts who were responding to the war in their own indulgent style , if they even heeded it at all . |
| 12 | It is the two hundred and twenty five , but how could we calculate that from just looking at , if they just told us and you did n't use the protractor . |
| 13 | I am sure they thought that if they just gave us a token punishment , then the whole thing would all be forgotten . |
| 14 | If they really wanted they could 've just gone straight for it . |
| 15 | ‘ Children who have to steal to eat ; who have been abandoned by their parents , if they ever knew them ; children who huddle in a doorway at night , because they have nowhere to sleep . ’ |
| 16 | said Richard he said , I do n't know how you do it in London he said , if they ever asked me to come down here he said I would die . |
| 17 | I do n't think er , I do n't think you do do work , enough work , either of you really I mean if I sat an eleven plus today , by what , if they ever brought it back , it 'll be a lot different than what it was then |
| 18 | My dad says that queers are all sick in the head and he 'd kill one if they ever touched me . |
| 19 | The Marshal , his big eyes rolling round the depressing room lit by one dusty light-bulb because the small , barred window hardly let in any light , wondered if they ever managed it . |
| 20 | They existed , too , somewhere , seeking him out in every corner , and if they ever found him they would surely drag him back to the terror from which he looked forward to escaping , finally and permanently , soon . |
| 21 | ‘ If they ever stopped I think I 'd retire . |
| 22 | Girls , even upper-class girls , stayed at home until they were married ; and if they never married they stayed at home for good . |
| 23 | She wondered if she really liked them any more , if they still struck her as both noble and imaginative in the highest degree . |
| 24 | I wondered if they still did it at the pictures , 'cos it 's years since I went to the pictures . |
| 25 | The fact that we had an armed guard lowered no one 's spirits ; made everyone feel a lot more comfortable , including , if they only knew it , the ex-FAKINTIL chief sapper himself . |
| 26 | Well it , it , it , it 's moving a bit in that direction , I mean I knew what their prediction was cos they kindly supplied it to me , which is why I made the point , but I mean as as you know from our proof we have a higher view of the demographic requirements in York even than that , for reasons that were amply discussed in general on on day one , to do with vacant dwellings , mortality , and I think still probably a difference in migration between us on York , which is statistical rather than environmental , but I think it is important to have that established early on that that even in the County Council 's view , and with their , as it were , doubts about the statistics which they themselves use , that er there is more need generated in York , however much it is , than York itself can accommodate , and that is of course without York city 's seven hundred addition for reducing concealed and sharing households which is not in the County Council 's figures . |
| 27 | Er until they actually met them and got to know them . |
| 28 | He usually left this shop to the end because they rarely gave him an order and the road was one he hated . |
| 29 | Gradually I drifted apart from Beth and Ida , but I am always grateful to them because they also introduced me to the other great interest in their lives — ballet . |
| 30 | Is this because they never had them or because they have lost them ? |