Example sentences of "they [vb past] [coord] [pron] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All right , there had been two of them involved and it was unfair , but he would be feeling tricked … and trapped . |
| 2 | All three of them ducked but there was no burst of fire from the ice-bound hills . |
| 3 | Er and I do n't think any other most of them started and they 're still here some of them . |
| 4 | He did not say much when they met and it was always muffled by the lapels of his coat . |
| 5 | People paid their debts and when they needed help , they asked and it was never refused ; it was the way that the small and widespread community had always lived , and as a system it was dignified and efficient . |
| 6 | Now , the Yale and Union locks they 'd got a certain type of locks that they produced and it was all done with a system , you know what I mean and more or less come to assembly and er they did that . |
| 7 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
| 8 | And then on thirty two minutes , Pisa got a goal which quite frankly they deserved and it was a brilliant effort , it was probably the best goal of the three . |
| 9 | She had seen what huge uphill problems they faced and she was determined to support their heroic effort to the best of her ability . |
| 10 | They finished and we were backstage and our guys were setting up our stuff and all these bikers in the audience started to chant , ‘ Poofter , poofter , ’ which was aimed at me , and we were thinking , ‘ Oh know , this is ugly . ’ |
| 11 | He forgot to hand in such little money as he collected from sales of the Morning Star ; they prosecuted and he was put on probation for two years . |
| 12 | The Cretaceous period , in which they thrived but which was also marked by accelerated evolutionary trends that would ultimately make them extinct , is long even on the scale geologists use to measure history — 70 million years . |
| 13 | And gathering chickweed out of the neep the chickens and that for green feed when they needed and they were confined in a small small space where there was no green grass to feed them on . |
| 14 | The building society advanced £15,000 to the Hammonds on the security of the charge which they executed and which was subsequently registered . |
| 15 | The songs of ancient times remind them of what they lost and there is a savage hatred in their hearts towards the Dark Elves of Naggaroth . |
| 16 | Passers-by were clearly baffled by what they saw and it was only when curiosity proved too much that anyone came near enough to be buttonholed . |
| 17 | I said no , I wished they did but it 's |
| 18 | But there 's no ne oh well they just wanted some fun , I know they did but there was no need to . |
| 19 | They did and I was dragged out and thrown on to the grass . |
| 20 | They had but it was erm , much less satisfactory as a U R C one |
| 21 | She would feel so much happier if they had and it was over . |
| 22 | His whole life was passed in the nursery of the three dimensions ; the wings of his mind were never used , so they atrophied and he was all his life a prisoner of his own ignorance . |
| 23 | Then she ran to find Ferdinando to tell him and they embraced and it was he who said , ‘ She is an angel ! ’ of Mrs Browning and Wilson realised she had expressed not a word of gratitude . |