Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rural Britain is full of retired brigadiers and industrial captains , chaps who got where they were through diplomacy , cunning and an instinct for knocking heads together when the bugle blew . |
| 2 | Then he realized where they were : the Coptic Place of the Dead . |
| 3 | It was only when his embrace became more adventurous , his hands more demanding as he became aroused , that she realised where they were heading and she finally found the strength to pull away from him . |
| 4 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 5 | A chilly breeze was moving and several of them trembled where they sat . |
| 6 | The merchant-princes of Venice were not reigning princes or immensely wealthy cardinals ; they economized where they could and , although astonishing spectacle was indispensable to the success of opera , the Venetians were adept at producing striking effects with relatively simple means . |
| 7 | Dr Gilvear 's study found that most often the breaches in the embankments occurred where they overlaid old channels and were vulnerable to erosion . |
| 8 | Puzzled , I finally twigged where they had come from : the synthetic rock — supposedly safe — that I had decorated the tank with . |
| 9 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 10 | He therefore proposed that they should be given increased representation in Legislative Councils and that they should be admitted to the administrative services . |
| 11 | Although many officials and newspapers proposed that they be paid a modest salary , only the chief headmen received official remuneration . |
| 12 | When Mrs Orton proposed that they listen to the Queen 's Speech on the radio , Bill 's only protest was to produce a bottle of brandy from his case , open one of his gift books , roll himself a cigarette with gift tobacco , lean back and stare covertly at his son . |
| 13 | It was Diane who proposed that they should go over and take a look at the labs where Jenner had worked and Reynolds agreed , more than a little relieved that they were returning to the main subject ; he was made uncomfortable by Diane 's self revelation and the way in which it had begun to erode his easy preconceptions of her and her ‘ type ’ . |
| 14 | The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants . |
| 15 | Indeed , it proposed that they be retained and further , than in addition to this unpopular tax there should be a new unpopular tax local income tax — a prospect of little attraction to most politicians . |
| 16 | Lily said , ‘ No , we can get Miss Bradshaw 's signature any time we want it ’ , and Vernon shouted that they had a perfect right to loiter on a public pavement . |
| 17 | The EPA and FDA , together with the Department of Agriculture , promised that they would use both reports " as a basis for formulating the legislative and regulatory policies needed to put the Administration 's principles [ for cutting pesticide use ] into effect " . |
| 18 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 19 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 20 | He clearly demonstrated that they formed their spores in sac-like structures known as asci , typical of the Ascomycetes . |
| 21 | At least the British players demonstrated that they fully deserved to be on the same court — much against many people 's expectations . |
| 22 | As long ago as 1893 , I.S. Leadam demonstrated that they did in fact enjoy the protection of the courts . |
| 23 | The current generation of devices has already established a growing acceptance of electronic media among information users and demonstrated that they have a choice in the way they get access to the resources they need . |
| 24 | There was an even tighter look on his face now , and when he pronounced that they were ready to leave Maggie was extremely thankful . |
| 25 | It helped that they believed in his faked war record and legends such as that the religious leader Gregorio Aglipay inserted a slither of wood into Marcos 's back before the Bataan campaign in 1942 , allegedly giving him magic powers . |
| 26 | No numerical illustrations are given because it is the very nature of the techniques described that they are successful on large problems — too large to illustrate explicitly here . |
| 27 | They often came into conflict with the local Transport Committees , formed from the local branches of the main transport unions , who correctly maintained that they alone had the right to issue permits for the movement of essential items which would otherwise have been held up in the dispute . |
| 28 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 29 | Here , however , lay the crux of the matter , for the King of Prussia and his government maintained that they had never been officially associated with Leopold , whose activities were purely personal , and that the King was concerned with the matter only as head of the House of Hohenzollern . |
| 30 | Anthropologists , following Evans-Pritchard 's lead , have reacted against this way of seeing primitive , or non-literate , peoples , and maintained that they do not act as they do for the same reasons that neurotics act in Western society . |