Example sentences of "the [noun] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now the authority of the community was carried by the Sanhedrin they brought him to what is what they accepted as a trial erm they 'd assessed that something was going against their structures , and as I 've already said religious life was the most important thing he 'd broken it seems a religious law and the council the court the gathering together of the seventy members of the Sanhedrin were going to in a serious sort of way check this out , check this accusation out . |
| 2 | would like to thank managers and staff at the branch for the support they gave him during his recent illness . |
| 3 | And at the end of the day hardly anyone remembers the programmes they did it for . ’ |
| 4 | I found a medicine dropper and used that to feed it the milk they left me . |
| 5 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 6 | She was too interested in the money they paid her , to ask many questions . |
| 7 | And now , to set the seal on this disastrous year , the member of parliament for Frizingley , old Charlie Bowen , who had been John-William 's man and Ben Braithwaite 's man and knew exactly what he had to do to earn the money they paid him , had fallen off his horse — the damned fool — and broken his neck . |
| 8 | They they put him on the rail they tied him to the railway track so he 'd get run over by a train but I do n't think he did . |
| 9 | The fifth matter of complaint , which goes partly to the intention of the appellants and to the difficulty they found themselves in before the judge was that their solicitor never explained these matters to the judge , that is to say the technical nature of the breach , the details of the two charges that had been made , and the advice that their solicitor himself had given to the appellants when they came to consult him . |
| 10 | TWO bosses were so determined to beat the recession they slashed their pay to half that of the firm 's teenage trainee . |
| 11 | and half of it is rubbish and decent rubbish and that 's rubbish there it is I knew it was in here somewhere I knew I thought it was in the Prima they gave it to you but obviously it was erm in Essentials everything out of there do n't think they had many Christmas You used to was it you , you see you can make your own , was it you that we went up to town that time and brought those erm from John Lewis the round |
| 12 | It was a more difficult job than they had imagined , because of the stiffness of the limbs , but by holding the head and the ankles they managed it . |
| 13 | But on the course they told us to keep our options open . |
| 14 | In the end I bullied Andy , I said , Andy there is something fishy about this fire he said well it 's possible he said that it was erm a display model and every time anybody came in and needed a replacement part instead of sending for the part they took it out of the display model ! |
| 15 | In 1923 , when the Liberals found themselves in much the same situation as Mr Ashdown is hoping for today , Asquith told them that they ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune ’ , but that was exactly the part they found themselves playing then , and will find themselves playing now if we get a hung Parliament , and they will be unsuccessful mercenaries at that . |
| 16 | He killed himself because he was literally sick to death of fighting some of the largest manufacturers of FM radios for the royalties they owed him . |
| 17 | I 'm told it 's the 43rd single release off the album they said they 'd split up after if it did n't outsell Guns N' Roses ( or something ) . |
| 18 | At the foot of the steps they greeted him ; each in his turn bowing before Tsu Ma ; each bending to kiss the ring of power he now wore ; each embracing him warmly before repeating the same eight words . |
| 19 | Taking hold of the captives they dragged them away , struggling and still mouthing threats , in the direction of the ‘ prison ’ rig . |
| 20 | The clerical representatives were a formidable number — forty-two diocesan proctors ( two from each diocese ) and twenty-three cathedral proctors ( including Bath as well as Wells , and Coventry as well as Lichfield ) — and with the rest of the clergy they constituted something over a third of the whole parliament . |
| 21 | In the interview they asked me about my future plans . |
| 22 | ‘ The crime they sent me to prison for ! ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps you think the crime they sent you to prison for makes you unworthy of God 's mercy . |
| 24 | Parking the car they left it there and walked around to Porchester Terrace , throwing the keys to the Humber Snipe down a-drainhole . |
| 25 | She says : ‘ When I went to arrange the AA insurance for the car they offered me a policy for us as well and , thank goodness , I decided to take it . ’ |
| 26 | When the police returned the car they told him there was nothing wrong with it and the engine was legitimate . |
| 27 | After an inept start , Rangers battled belligerently to achieve the result they sought which keeps them abreast of Marseille , who defeated Club Brugge 3-0 in France . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't obvious on the photograph they showed me . ’ |
| 29 | This week William and his horse Chaka have been training with the rest of the British team at Badminton … back in the spring they enjoyed their finest hour here when they finished seventh in the annual championships … |
| 30 | so anyway he went right on until the Saturday and he said look , on the Friday they called us in and they said look we 're gon na take him to the ward I 'm afraid there 's nothing else we can do , just deteriorating and he said there 's no |