Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 2 | They were amused by the way she consumed endless bowls of ice-cream or asked them to make her special snacks in between the normal meals . |
| 3 | A few careful people had private records of their own , having either remembered the names or recovered them from copies , and took pride in preserving the memory of their aristocratic origin . |
| 4 | Although the case was ‘ exceptional ’ , due to the size of the financial crash , and a careful balance between the administrators ' reasonable needs and the oppression of the addressee was necessary , applications were not necessarily unreasonable because they were inconvenient to the addressee , caused a lot of work or made them vulnerable to future claims . |
| 5 | In the old days , life was simple in schools in the sense that if pupils did n't do what they were supposed to do you thrashed them , or made them stand in the corner , or expelled them . |
| 6 | Nobody took much notice of them or expected them to start up any form of conversation , so Charles was surprised when Eric addressed him by name . |
| 7 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 8 | As time goes on the need for such support will , obviously , diminish — it 's more than likely that your staff will become more conversant with the product than the person who either sold or trained them on it . |
| 9 | If you injured or offended them , ’ Thomas turned and pointed to the carvings on the rocky outcrop , a woman with large generous thighs and huge round breasts , ‘ they would put you in a wicker basket and burn you alive , an offering to their Mother Goddess . ’ |
| 10 | This was the room where only last week they had eagerly discussed the merits of anchovy ( protagonist Auguste ) versus red wine sauce for fillets of John Dory ; whether sole on prawn mousse covered with aspic ( Alice 's invention ) brought out the true flavours of the fish , or smothered them ; whether mussels were preferable simply cooked in white wine or whether , as Emily contended , with cream and sorrel sauce added . |
| 11 | No one was allowed to resign ; people served until the Shah dismissed or moved them . |
| 12 | I can picture him now , a tall lean figure in a helmet , smoking his pipe as he watched the horses being saddled or inspected them while they were being fed ; 1 can see him cleaning his rifle in the verandah of his tent , or sitting chatting with my mother by the fire in the evening . |
| 13 | When machines went funny you just oiled them or prodded them or , if nothing else worked , hit them with a hammer . |
| 14 | But he took charge of men ; organized them ; persuaded or inspired or commanded them to endure incredible things . |
| 15 | Dewey then identified the characteristics of practical judgments in terms of their tentative and hypothetical character and suggested that we may often misjudge what is to be done either because we have overlooked relevant facts or misinterpreted them or because we have misjudged the best course of action to be followed . |
| 16 | Whatever it was that lured or drove them there , these creatures , over the millennia , lumbering after their food , became more and more efficient at moving and breathing out of water . |
| 17 | Those who initiate racialist talk ( without referring to a racist ideology ) may be a minority too , but since they are rarely contradicted or opposed they tend to shape the norms of the group . |
| 18 | This analysis of the history of the visitors ' jurisdiction before 1873 makes it quite clear , in our judgment , that when the judges were sitting as visitors to the Inns of Court to hear appeals by barristers who had been ordered to be suspended or disbarred they were acting as judges and performing judicial duties which were an essential part of the administration of justice in their courts . |
| 19 | They will not attack , but if disturbed or cornered they will defend themselves . |
| 20 | But since racism is caused by racists and not by their targets , it does n't matter how well behaved or united they are : the god turns out to be insatiable . |
| 21 | The fact that the claim is made in third party proceedings in the context of a denial by the third defendant that he has conspired against the plaintiffs or defrauded them must not be allowed to conceal the fact that the claim for contribution from the third party necessarily asserts the contrary , albeit on a contingent basis . |
| 22 | But her happenings were transformed by the characters who caused or suffered them ; she was an artist , unlike the Goncourts , who attached happenings to characters quite arbitrarily to suit their convenience . |
| 23 | In the period broadly spanning the years 1948 to 1975 , central governments of both parties gradually extended local authorities ' social service powers , or encouraged them to use to the full powers they had already been given — achieving secondary education for all , creating a national pattern of further education , developing services for the elderly , sustaining a substantial housing programme . |
| 24 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
| 25 | What was more they could not , or claimed they could not , pay taxes , direct or indirect , so that the king of France soon came to feel the impact on his fiscal policy of English raids into certain parts of his kingdom . |
| 26 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 27 | ‘ Or heard them , ’ said the thin man , ‘ Why did n't Hugh call out ? |
| 28 | I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus . |
| 29 | You may have watched er , certain chat shows on the , on the television , or heard them on the radio , and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and it 's the interviewer who is really being put through it it 's the , it 's the person being interviewed who is in charge of the situation and that was the case here with Jesus . |
| 30 | In practice one can only talk about one thing at a time , and in this Chapter I shall risk a distorting simplicity by looking at questions of theory largely in isolation from institutional matrices and situations , and concentrating on British activities to the exclusion of the American ones that accompanied or preceded them . |