Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other hairy moment was when one of them tried to eat my camera . |
| 2 | Neither of them seemed to find her presence remarkable or unusual . |
| 3 | One of them began to tug his carbine out of its holster . |
| 4 | I told them to put a tourniquet on my arm and give me some morphia , whereupon one of them started to bandage my wrist and the other went off to ask what morphia was . |
| 5 | The Brownies sang , danced and played instruments and afterwards some of them managed to gain their Hostess and Jester badges . |
| 6 | With them went went whatever chance I ever had of regaining my childhood . |
| 7 | He suspected they were terrorists when the they failed to answer his challenge and he fired off a volley of shots from his semi-automatic rifle . |
| 8 | 1989 : 289–90 ) we acknowledged that these ought to have been an ‘ irresistible combination ’ ; yet too often they failed to deliver their potential because of a lack of linkage between the key elements , particularly between advisory staff , heads , PNP coordinators and class teachers . |
| 9 | Rivals procured a visit from the archbishop of Canterbury to the chapter , but they failed to overturn his appointment . |
| 10 | Parents of children who qualified for secondary education signed an undertaking that the child would complete the course , and they could be fined if they failed to keep their word . |
| 11 | Tottenham , it must be said , also had key players absent but what must be disturbing is how they failed to raise their game until a double substitution in the 70th minute . |
| 12 | Coleraine , like Omagh , were also without a win before this meeting and they failed to get their game together allowing Omagh to capitalise on their hesitancy . |
| 13 | Mr Banham warned an Association of Metropolitan Authorities conference in London yesterday : ‘ There may well be half a million furious business people , either with severely disappointed expectations because they expected to see their rate bills cut by half , or facing a succession of real increases of 20 per cent in their annual rates bills . |
| 14 | They expected to make their profit by pushing the price of the shares up , so that they could buy the government bonds for a relatively small number of shares . |
| 15 | Erm they would n't grow , they ca n't grow grain or use two or three times in succession , but then for that another seven years because it takes so much goodness out the erm thing , there 's so many diseases and they got to change their crop after a while |
| 16 | Their officers might experience at times a tension between enjoyment of these qualities and impatience at their collective uncooperativeness , but few of them seem to have become so downhearted that they ceased to enjoy their work . |
| 17 | Davison died in Cambridge , where they lived following his retirement , 28 April 1940 . |
| 18 | In agreeing to obey his decision they agreed to follow his judgment of the balance of reasons rather than their own . |
| 19 | This was brought before the Parish Council meeting on 16th July and they agreed to endorse your request for assistance in maintaining the Parish Burial Ground . |
| 20 | When they agreed to halve their poster advertising , they chose a base year when spending was unnaturally high due to a competition war . |
| 21 | Naturally , they made getting my visa as difficult as possible , even now after all the changes . |
| 22 | They applied to buy their pub , The Town Brewery , Emsworth , Hants , from Whitbreads . |
| 23 | Her friends in the West were told that she would be beaten until they stopped publicizing her case . |
| 24 | And it was two o'clock when they stopped talking , they stopped having their break ! |
| 25 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 26 | I had been working as a dai ( midwife ) for the Government since 1974 , but I resigned when they stopped paying my salary and only paid me if I brought in patients to be sterilized . |
| 27 | In 1985 , they proposed to extend their role beyond that of an annual dining club for officers who had taken a degree through the police college scheme . |
| 28 | The dancing was held outside , in the open air behind the pavilion , a band playing hot jazz as Rachel and Damian led the dancing by the gleam of the swimming-pool , and the rhythm of their bodies as they moved blazed their desire for each other to the watching guests . |
| 29 | During moments of acute royal weakness they tried to re-establish their influence , but as a political force they were clearly in decline . |
| 30 | But when they tried to call their ambulance depot at Mayfield , the radio reception was so poor one of the men had to dash to a phone box . |