Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Acme Transport v Betts [ 1981 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 131 , at p134 , Cumming Bruce LJ said that the Court of Appeal " were indebted to the judgment and tact of Counsel in that neither of them sought to confine us by referring to authority on the meaning of other exemption clauses in other contexts " . |
| 2 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 3 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 4 | This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead . |
| 5 | As the crews tied up for the last time in Southampton , watched , and waited for by families and friends they had n't seen for eight months , many of them agreed getting back to a routine , going back to work , might by tough . |
| 6 | Dr Robert Upshall said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |
| 7 | Election candidates in Darlington have failed to meet the Green challenge , according to Dr Robert Upshall , who said copies of the Green Party 's charter were sent to the three main candidates but none of them agreed to sign it . |
| 8 | The agreement was a verbal agreement only on the first day of the new year and the two of them agreed to share profits equally . |
| 9 | The upshot was that after much argument all three of them agreed to help out , and all five of us did manage to get to the church on time . |
| 10 | ‘ One of them asked to go to the lavatory . |
| 11 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 12 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 13 | Sure , nearly 60 per cent of them admitted committing some sort of crime or incivility in the nine months prior to being questioned . |
| 14 | No , me got to sing |
| 15 | ‘ Jack and me got married very quietly yesterday afternoon . ’ |
| 16 | A lot of them failed to reach that desirable goal . |
| 17 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 18 | None of them got icing on today . |
| 19 | and one of them got bunked off |
| 20 | The rest of Europe laughs at the feudal system that most of them got rid of centuries ago . |
| 21 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 22 | Many of them got burnt out . |
| 23 | The girls were called Lizzie , Winnie , Ada and Edith , and I think all of them got married . |
| 24 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 25 | The three of them moved thought the ship at a speed that I can hardly describe . |
| 26 | Do they mean none transferable from person to person or from book to book , erm , for everything it does n't say and if they know , both of them stopped sending out those |
| 27 | When friends asked me out I had to turn them down and one or two of them stopped calling round . |
| 28 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 29 | Some of them tried to blow him up , too . |
| 30 | One of them tried to say something . |