Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His death was not due to any lack of care because they owned their own house and were reasonably well off . |
| 2 | So probably three months went by where they got their own rate . |
| 3 | But then they got their own van and they did most of them , er but then again they they a called on us and said Can you come and do a little job for us ? |
| 4 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 5 | No , I think it 's just I think they plan well according er to John yesterday they planned it this way . |
| 6 | They planned it this way ? |
| 7 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 8 | They made their own terms of reference ; she , perhaps , with knowledge and calculation ; the man , after his kind , by impulse and the blind brilliance of his own nature . |
| 9 | They made their own comment on the Prime Minister 's future |
| 10 | They made their own amusements , and she learnt to knit and they had long winter nights round the fire o and they used to go She used to call it , we used to go after day set , that she called evening . |
| 11 | However , by assimilating and making their own so many Greek gods , literary conventions , artistic forms , philosophical ideas and social customs , they put themselves and the Greeks in a unique reciprocal situation ; the more so because they made their own language an instrument of thought which could rival Greek and render Greek ideas with remarkable precision ( though the Greeks never quite accepted the fact ) . |
| 12 | They made us this way . ’ |
| 13 | These tribes had been conquered by the Franks and forced into Christianity , but they retained their own kingship or leaders , and were not tightly bound to the Frankish throne in terms of direct government . |
| 14 | It is likely that the Romans followed Alexandrian fashion in this respect , but surviving portraits of later date suggest that they retained their own conventions of representing character in facial features . |
| 15 | A GROUP of 35 children from Dothill county infants school , Telford , will be visiting the Laura Ashley garment factory in Carno on Thursday to be presented with cotton aprons produced specially for them after they designed their own patterns based on the theme ‘ Around Our School . ’ |
| 16 | Archibald Campbell of Port Ellen tells that they built their own houses on their holdings and " nearly all the householders in the village have one cow . " |
| 17 | Archibald Campbell of Port Ellen tells that they built their own houses on their holdings and " nearly all the householders in the village have one cow . " |
| 18 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |
| 19 | True , in the judgment itself it might appear that the court was making a pontifical statement of existing principle rather than laying down a new rule , for they regarded their own proposition as having been anticipated by Holt . |
| 20 | Prayers in Jewtown over , the men would drift out onto the street , each separate group mingling with the others in a leisurely trading of news and gossip before eventually they entered their own homes where breakfast awaited them . |
| 21 | After the painting they used their own products to furnish the house , surrounding the old ranges and fireplaces , and covering the floor of the glazed backyard with tartan ceramic tiles . |
| 22 | They used their own judgment about how much threat would be involved for most people in those circumstances . |
| 23 | Often these new boundaries followed a stream or a trackway that already existed , but very often they created their own boundary lanes or meres ( from the Old English word' ( ge ) maere ' , ‘ boundary ’ ) . |
| 24 | They created their own environment around them . |
| 25 | The desire of biblical literalists to show that the story could have been history acted as a spur to the study of zoogeography , even though the eventual , and ironic , outcome was that they sank their own ship . |
| 26 | In changing themselves they added their own weight to the effort by which the world itself might be changed . |
| 27 | " The Wonders " or " Marvels " was the basic guide book , immensely popular , which everybody read and to which they added their own impressions . |
| 28 | They believed their own cause enjoyed wider public support , because of the Golan 's obvious strategic value and also because the area is largely uninhabited , whereas nearly 2m Palestinians live in the West Bank and Gaza . |
| 29 | What they told me this morning ? ’ |
| 30 | I mean in terms of population I think I somebody did er Strathclyde regional council used to be a client of mine when I was with Three M er well you know a client of my rep up here but er and they told me some time that I think a huge percentage of the whole of Scotland 's population |