Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean they , they were exploiting or they had they had the potential exploit more countries than Russia did . |
| 2 | I continued to call and they said they had the matter in hand , but I must be patient and understand that the pressure of business was overwhelming . |
| 3 | And er little history of that , that was sunk by some Irishmen and they reckon they sank the iri they sank that pit without the aid of a plumb-bob. how true it is . |
| 4 | Yeah , and what happened they lost the letter |
| 5 | Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here . |
| 6 | ‘ There used to be a load of deer up there , but I expect they ate the buggers during the war . |
| 7 | so er that 's old is it Shepherd and Metzler No it 's not in this case but I think they invented the task , yes they did good old Shepherd and Metzler |
| 8 | Furthermore , Morgan was interested in the patterns which kinship terms create , not just for themselves , but because he believed they reflected the system of marriage with which they had originally been used . |
| 9 | Everyone else was allowed a lot of latitude , particularly in sexual matters , and then just before they died they took the consolamentum which permitted them to enter the life of the spirit . ’ |
| 10 | Before they left they blasted the Government for demolishing more than 400,000 jobs in the industry in three years . |
| 11 | Yes th as I remember they did the other side of first . |
| 12 | Once or twice they followed a track that simply petered out , as though it had never been ; but always , when they returned they found the path she should have chosen was the path the man with the staff had been down before them . |
| 13 | When they arrived they found the police already there' ( Labour Research , 1984 ) . |
| 14 | Men who can cling to overhanging rocks thousands of feet above their companions , men who climb into perilous situations in the knowledge they are inches from death , men who are strong enough and man enough to meet any physical challenge , these are the men who call for their mum when they find they left the jungle Formula back in the car . |
| 15 | Coming to a particular spot , she said ‘ Dig theear ’ , and when they did they found the stump of the old one . |
| 16 | As they went they heard the clatter of feet in the porch of the church , and voices that spoke in reverent undertones , but not from awe of the holy place . |
| 17 | As soon as they see they got the microphone they go |
| 18 | When he did they saw the dead animal and , in fury at being deprived of their sport , they ran the hermit through with their boar staves . |