Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Andy Lloyd believes they ultimately failed last year because of the onerous programme confronting them , as they competed in all directions for an elusive honour : ‘ There was so much concerted effort and no reward . |
| 32 | ‘ Who was that man , Virginia ? ’ he persisted quietly , as they waited at more traffic lights . |
| 33 | There was silence as they glanced at each other , and Sophie said irritably , ‘ It 's exactly as I said . |
| 34 | They provided many of the resources for the celebrations and allowed the students to proceed as they wished with few officials presiding over events . |
| 35 | A wave passed , so high that its spray burst against a side porthole as they stared at each other . |
| 36 | As they stared at each other everything seemed fine , the differences did not matter , all that mattered was the love they shared . |
| 37 | There was silence as they looked at each other across the table . |
| 38 | Jessica swung , clinging hard to Rory , as they made for another barn . |
| 39 | Beside him Carol watched the modern-day gladiators as they came at each other . |
| 40 | He brought it up , let it look about as they came to another junction . |
| 41 | As they came alongside each other , Natasha said : ‘ I once asked Maurice why he thought so highly of you , Charlie . |
| 42 | And as they fell upon that field , |
| 43 | As they returned from these reconnaissances with a good deal of useful information , authority was pleased . |
| 44 | Anyone who 's vigilant knows what 's going on and they 're aware of what 's happening , so again it , it shows that we must do something as they said on that motorway , the thing to do when you feel yourself going into drow drowsiness is , is stop the car perhaps , get out and have a walk round , do something , I know I , er in the past when I 've felt myself going off to sleep in those situations , I 've been pinching myself and , and really making yourself do something rather than just sitting there doing nothing , cos that 's the way we just go off and get lowered into sleep and our lives are involved in this , we 've read and heard about people that have gone to sleep on motorways have n't they ? |
| 45 | Whether he would have done the right thing by her — as they said in those days — is fruitless speculation : he was never told of the need . |
| 46 | At first some still found this difficult , as they practised on each other . |
| 47 | Behind her , in the distant heat haze , two thirsty rhinos raised a wall of dust as they lumbered past some waterbuck to a watering hole . |
| 48 | Treaty in so far as they applied to all owners , charterers , managers and operators of British fishing vessels and to 75 per cent . |
| 49 | Later , Jacqui met her kiss for kiss in their lovemaking ; even taking the initiative as they drank of each other 's bodies . |
| 50 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 51 | Figures moving through the dark halls flickered like ghosts as they passed through these moments of light . |
| 52 | Rosie whispered ‘ scopare ’ to her as they sat beside each other at a concert in a dark and chilly palace behind the square . |
| 53 | But then , as they sat opposite each other in a crowded Darlington bar , Sue suddenly realised that she was about to lose the man she loved . |
| 54 | A ‘ landmine ’ destroyed one vehicle , a patrol was ambushed as they spoke to some locals , and a foreign parachute and map were discovered on a beach after a tip-off . |
| 55 | Tonight , Dada and that little girl , whose company he had so much dreaded , had their heads nearly touching as they bent towards each other , she asking , he elaborating . |
| 56 | As they stood on either side of the door looking at one another she felt as if a magic elixir was being created , ready to cure a disease . |
| 57 | Their eyes were identically glazed in male and female as they stood on either side of a seated broadclothed patriarch . |
| 58 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
| 59 | Music played softly in the background as they stood on either side of the hearth , smiling uncertainly at one another like former lovers reunited after a long absence and wondering whether they still had anything in common . |
| 60 | She could be pretty , she decided , if her hair were not so tightly scraped back from her face and if her eyes shone with eagerness , as they did at this moment . |