Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This afternoon they announced they intend to adjourn tomorrow night 's AGM . |
| 2 | If they failed they get told and they do n't get a certificate do they ? |
| 3 | Before they met she had accepted her call-up into the armed forces because it was one of the things that happened in wartime ; accepted it because it was a moral necessity . |
| 4 | I gathered , however , that they expected it to continue to get worse and that there was nothing they could do except give me vitamins . |
| 5 | Yeah , they got they 'd got half hour 's drive from Minehead and that their car broke down , they had to go up , they had to call the , was it the A are they ? |
| 6 | They use so much petrol on a taxi business they got she 's got about a dozen still I think . |
| 7 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 8 | ‘ The Tobolsk police , when they realized they had got an Englishman , rang Moscow . |
| 9 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 10 | ‘ Everyone was very shocked when they realised what had happened . |
| 11 | Yeah er and they made you wait wait an hour , duck . |
| 12 | And er erm they saw me on the you know television programme and they asked me to go go to the school and |
| 13 | If they asked me to say thank you very much at the end of a shit interview I would n't , and if they did n't like it , I 'd probably leave . |
| 14 | They asked me to help dress the models who wandered around showing clothes to the ladies having afternoon tea in the restaurant , and after a bit I did some modelling myself . |
| 15 | Quite why this put the scrutineers in a dilemma I do n't know , but they asked me to protest to get them off the hook . |
| 16 | ‘ They asked me to consider standing myself , ’ he says , ‘ but I 'm 67 and I thought that was too old . ’ |
| 17 | So they asked they wanted to know how , how we got the tape . |
| 18 | the employer and I asked him what documents they produced , what report they produced we have written a letter about it , but I formally call for any report or document from and the second thing he mentioned were letters from about twelve members of parliament that they received |
| 19 | It went to the flowers they crumpled it came weeping back |
| 20 | And then he just never went to school and they maintained they 'd got a private . |
| 21 | Police saw him go into a flat in West London but by the time they entered he 'd gone . |
| 22 | When the researchers re-imaged the same area , they found they had created small groups of three atoms , arranged in a triangle , which appeared higher than their neighbours . |
| 23 | Ukraine ( except in the formerly Habsburg part ) and Macedonia showed no signs of wanting to break away until the USSR and Yugoslavia had been destroyed by other hands , and they found they had to take some action in self-defence . |
| 24 | ‘ Labour thought they were going to win a point today — they were rather disappointed when they found they had got it completely wrong . ’ |
| 25 | They found they had to aid each other to achieve coupling , or they would slip apart to achieve nothing . |
| 26 | To their disgust they found themselves required to stand in line with the Europeans . |
| 27 | More than 1,600 names — the people whose personal wealth is pledged to meeting insurance claims — lost money when they found themselves having to meet huge bills for asbestosis and pollution claims after Mr Outhwaite agreed to take on the risks from other Lloyd 's syndicates in 1982 . |
| 28 | They found I did have river blindness . |
| 29 | The French forces won back the city , but when they reached the residence of Ho Chi Minh they found he had gone . |
| 30 | They believed they had come tantalisingly close , but they had failed . |