Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the desert streaming from their wheels , they drove away my windbreak and I dived behind the wheelbarrow , now lying on its side . |
| 2 | They took away my jacket and trousers , which I was going to wash , and also my shoes . |
| 3 | Whatever they felt like they sort of |
| 4 | That they gathered together their Sanhedrin , their court and they brought him to it . |
| 5 | They said well your husband 's car 's been vandalised and they think it 's you that 's done it so we 've come to arrest you so she said oh I thought you 've come to tell me it were me daughter that was dead and he said , he said what you talking about ? |
| 6 | Some days Ariel carried the hooped Sycorax on her back ( she would not ride on anyone else ) down to the shore and into the water , and held her up under the arms so that she could let her contorted frame float free ; small currents spun in the water as if to ease her , and the sky 's blue height seemed to catch them up into its soft vastness and give them fins and wings to fly and swoop , so that they both felt airier and brighter than they had since their freedom had come to an end , and the memory of their former peace returned for a space . |