Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been on the committee of the Scottish region , as it was ten called , since 1984 — ‘ they flung me on as naive new blood ’ — — and was vice-chairman for two years before becoming chairman at the tender age of 25 . |
| 2 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 3 | I mean I do n't , I do n't know whether say they flung them out on the street is the right thing , cos I , I , I mean there 's all these places like Mencap and there 's a big one in Wellingborough |
| 4 | They flung themselves at sailors in a bid for immortality . |
| 5 | They flung themselves against it . |
| 6 | As he stepped out , they flung themselves out of his reach , all at once , silently , before resuming their sawing song . |
| 7 | They flung themselves on him , yanked his legs back , crossing them so that his knees splayed out . |
| 8 | Hurrying under cover of darkness up to Roscarrock Hall where a real priest was visiting from Ireland or Spain , they whispered their confessions to him , received absolution from him and knelt in the Roscarrock family chapel to hear a proper Latin Mass and to receive in their mouths the living sacrifice , the Body of Christ . |
| 9 | Linking hands , they whispered their love for one another , and although they were kept physically apart by those old granite stones , they were in another sense brought close together by them , for it is curiously easier to give your heart away through a hole in the wall than to swear your fidelity between the sheets of a feather bed . |
| 10 | Without pausing for breath they emptied their collection tins on the table and paid the bill with the contents . |
| 11 | I told me mates it was a sure thing and they emptied their pockets and put every last halfpenny on you and that horse of your'n . |
| 12 | These statistics go on and on — quite interesting if you can fight your way through the jin and mu to find out what is really happening — and are frequently laced with political remarks about following ‘ our great leader Chairman Mao 's revolutionary line ’ , and the ‘ wise leadership of Chairman Hua ’ , with the inevitable explanation of how the Gang of Four sabotaged agriculture , just as they sabotaged everything else . |
| 13 | Then , when they announced their engagement , love , marriage and a lifetime wedded to the monarchy meant very different things to the future King and Queen . |
| 14 | I have already referred to the findings and the reasons given by the justices at the time that they announced their decision on 28 January 1992 . |
| 15 | At first , they wondered whether they had made contact with an alien civilization ; indeed , I remember that the seminar room in which they announced their discovery was decorated with figures of ‘ little green men . ’ |
| 16 | Indeed , at the seminar at which they announced their discovery , I remember that they called the first four sources to be found LGM 1–4 , LGM standing for " Little Green Men . " |
| 17 | They announced their willingness to co-operate with Roh in the formation of a truly neutral administration and gave notice of their intention to end the legislative boycott . |
| 18 | They announced they were not even prepared to come in and talk . |
| 19 | In a typically devious climb-down they announced they would bombard the island in future on only the odd dates of the month , as though the rain of shells was a form of parking restriction . |
| 20 | This afternoon they announced they intend to adjourn tomorrow night 's AGM . |
| 21 | On set she met and fell in love with her screen husband , Branagh , and they announced they were to marry in 1989 . |
| 22 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 23 | A tall , good-looking blonde veterinary nurse opened the door to them , and her face froze as they announced themselves . |
| 24 | They announced it just a couple of weeks ago . |
| 25 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 26 | No they announced it . |
| 27 | Which meant , in effect , that though some parents chose to send their children there rather than to the Grammar School , many more sent them there because they failed their eleven-plus , that Beecher 's Brook of English childhood . |
| 28 | they failed , but they failed their eleven plus twice |
| 29 | If they failed they get told and they do n't get a certificate do they ? |
| 30 | They disowned their food and their language and in some cases even their Indian first names . |