Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [to-vb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once their canvasses showed majority support for the proposal , they moved quickly to bring it to a vote , thereby avoiding the public debate which had accompanied past efforts at prohibiting honoraria . |
| 2 | ‘ You should have seen the smug self satisfaction on the faces of those bitches as they lined up to kiss me , ’ she rasped . |
| 3 | They waded out to get her . |
| 4 | Then , when they seemed not to hear him , he repeated it , stronger this time , commanding them . |
| 5 | They were very nice , yeah they came round to give us a quote and my wife actually knows one of their wives very very well and er but the produced an exorbitant quote . |
| 6 | Though they came out to attack her , she led her young right into the midst of their offspring before turning to flee , leaving the two broods mixed . |
| 7 | I had to try and get a bit of kip on the crumbling sofa with a torch in one hand and a big bit of four by two in the other , ready to whack any of the mice if they came out to get us . |
| 8 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 9 | Jacques Devraux and half-a-dozen Moi trackers were waiting beside the narrow river that flowed past the camp , and the senator put his arm lightly around his son 's shoulders as they walked over to join them . |
| 10 | When the householders learned that the completion of the contract marked the start of Ron 's retirement after 35 years , they clubbed together to buy him a carriage clock and bottle of whisky as a thank you gift to remember them by . |
| 11 | ‘ They worked hard to get us into Europe and now there 's no perk for them . |
| 12 | He has no relatives , you know : I was the one they called on to identify him . |
| 13 | Oh , they decided not to give us quite so much work ? |
| 14 | ‘ They decided not to use it on this trip because opening it might disrupt the passengers . |
| 15 | Having decided they had that power , they decided not to exercise it and made no order under that section . |
| 16 | Since his wife had been failing and the family was very poor , they decided not to bury him right away . |
| 17 | They motored forward to greet him as he appeared from the mists . |
| 18 | Th th the final the final sort of sick joke was the fact that erm having having disposed of the fingers to the theatre , the hospital they 'd got this box of ice lollies so they proceeded then to give them to people ! |
| 19 | That 's time enough for the wicked work , if they knew where to find him , and it seems they did . |
| 20 | Aye you know , holding them on the plank and th passing them to the But the the men that were stowing them , they were regular men on the They knew how to do it see . |
| 21 | Well they they knew how to do it did n't they ? |
| 22 | They went over to greet them and gather details of the events on Sunday when they were said to have ringed the churchyard and exacted an oath against the Act from all the gentlemen in the congregation . |
| 23 | They took that first thing before they went upstairs to wake her up and and she did n't know who it was , well she looked up and well it just took her breath away and then she tried to wake her husband up , cos she did n't like that , when he got up , he chased them . |
| 24 | There were twenty five thousand , I , I would n't like to see twenty five thousand on that ground again , because I , I used to smoke at the time and we were packed that tight in the ground I could n't even get my hands down to my pockets to get a cigarette out , so the erm after the first few games they started to draw at home and then they seemed to lose the impetus and that they still held a good position in the league , but the following season Liverpool were in the second division at the time , and I , I went to that match and Walsall scored first through Colin and er , they went on to beat us six-one in the end . |
| 25 | They sent up to bring him back . |
| 26 | As none of the Company 's depôts was yet ready , they pleaded that they had nowhere to put them and after discussion , the Corporation agreed to let them remain at Thornton Heath until their own new cars arrived , provided that they were permitted to use them in service on their main line , to compensate for the mileage worked by Corporation cars in Penge . |
| 27 | A car passed them on the single track road , heading north ; they stood aside to let it pass , waving at the single occupant when he waved at them . |
| 28 | Three of them heaved the bulk over on to the high rocks and after a few more buckets of water , they stood back to inspect it further . |