Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though mainly public gallery owners , the ADAA numbers a handful of private dealers as well , admitted because of their stature in the field or because they took their public concerns private . |
| 2 | Darwin realized that many secondary sexual differences were a consequence of the greater intensity of competition between males for access to mates and that many traits were more highly developed in males either because they conferred an advantage in fights or because they rendered their possessor more attractive to females . |
| 3 | Our unwound watches lay in our rucksacks and when they stopped we followed the pattern of night and day instead . |
| 4 | The family did not own a car and so they made their journey by coach . |
| 5 | WHEN WE first got to New York , the reporters met the boat and because they printed our names in the papers the Stage Door Johnnies started pestering us ; they were a completely different sort from the European ones . |
| 6 | As a result , the weeks passed , and the months and before they knew it , it was years . |
| 7 | There was uproar when the Navy discovered the mines and Stirling had to own up , only to be told that they often dropped small depth charges at random into the harbour and if they saw anything suspicious sprayed the area with machine guns . |
| 8 | What way they dried them , whether it was in the sun or if they 'd anything to dry them with , I do n't ken . |
| 9 | Couns Williams and Dixon confirmed that their view of Mr Major 's achievements and thoughts for the future differed from his , that they would not be sending donations and that they thought it was a complete cock-up . |
| 10 | A palace aide said last night : ‘ We were all a bit apprehensive about the lunch but when they arrived they put everyone at ease . |
| 11 | ‘ Aprilia wanted to give me two factory bikes and though they wanted me to bring a sponsor with me , they put my mind at ease about everything . |
| 12 | Yes we had er ships wh we , they call erm these liberty ships come in from America loaded with bombs and when they moved them up there , well they call them down here they call them liberty ships and er the bombs were loaded , so they used to erm put all timber between each layer of bombs and they had proper carpenters who would fix all these and when the dockers went down , they put these bombs out , cos they were n't detonated , the detonators were in the fore end of the ship , right down the lower hull and erm the bombs were loaded into open trucks loaded into , well the dockers they thought it was dangerous , cos we had the Fire Brigade , that 's the fire service down there and standing by with the fire engines and dockers they wanted the , they want a shilling , I think it was a shilling a day extra , well a shilling extra something like that and there they got it the shilling or extra pound , cos us crane drivers we were n't on the same par as them , so we asked for a shilling . |
| 13 | Members were discouraged from bringing along a personal caddie and if they did they still had to pay the caddie master the fee he would have received , irrespective of whether there was a caddie available or not ! |
| 14 | Er a well I do n't know , I feel that th there used to be something in that , that used to burn it up now what they call their top site and when they burned it they took all the acid out of it , and there used to be all yellow stuff come out the chimney and that , when they finished burn that was always red and the Germans used to come after that before the war , Second World War , they used to come after that and they used to reckon they make paintwork but now you done something else different with it and they use I tell you we used to give it the name of green oar or parites |
| 15 | On Monday 27 February Fleischmann and Pons were due to bring their working cell to Brigham Young University for the neutron spectrum to be measured , but a graduate student had to go to a funeral and so they suggested it would be better to come at the end of the week instead . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Because , whether they sought out 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 . |
| 18 | They all wanted flattery and nonsense and if they did anything that was n't right they expected people to cover up for them . |
| 19 | They said they had come to Britain because they did not need a visa and because they thought it was a free country . |
| 20 | You were half-way to being a lady 's maid with these private patients and if they wanted you to paint their fingernails while they told you their life histories you could n't choose but obey . |
| 21 | Zuwaya lineages were , by contrast , mobile over a wider area and when they settled they did so in different kinds of territory , part of a lineage in Tazarbu , part in Kufra or Ajkharra . |
| 22 | Then , under hypnosis , they were regressed fourteen days to the time or the showing of the film and they were able to watch it again in their minds only — but this time , of course , they were aware of the questions in advance and so they knew what they had to look out for . |
| 23 | And then after that when the ship was finished , then they used to sort that all out , the timber , different sizes , then y and then or were there , their own people to stack the timber and when they stacked it , they stacked it and they used to put splines between each layer of timber and that was to season the timber . |
| 24 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 25 | However , this did not suggest that they became pregnant by default or because they had nothing else to do , rather motherhood was a central focus of their lives ( Phoenix , 1987 ) . |
| 26 | " I was on teams with older girls and if they drank I would follow suit , " she explained . |
| 27 | to escape that , by fleeing into the countryside , very often into particularly backward and inaccessible areas of the countryside , where they would be safe from the security forces and where they hoped they could begin to create a new base among the peasantry . |
| 28 | At that time the DPKR had only 7,000 members and although they dissociated themselves from the Russian Communist Party , many were still members of the CPSU . |
| 29 | ‘ He had already contacted the police and when they came they asked me to look after the children so we sat in the car . |
| 30 | But there were five of them there one day in the porch and when they saw me they gathered up their bottles and began to go , except one . |