Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle . |
| 2 | The boys heard the crash and they ran as fast as they could to get help from the police and ambulance , but when the police and ambulance got there they only found the boys ' fishing tackle where they had dumped it in such haste . |
| 3 | In Bamburgh castle , where they had carried him from Wooler as soon as he was fit to be moved , the earl of Douglas took his ease in a very light and illustrious captivity . |
| 4 | Many of the cases , such as Seager v Copydex ( 1967 ) 1 WLR 923 , concerned actual or threatened breaches by ex-employees in relation to information given to them by their former employers , and where they wanted to exploit it to their own benefit . |
| 5 | Then I , I er seen fittings in er , in a friend 's house or they 'd seen them in the erm |
| 6 | The Quix supermarket had refused the box because they 'd ha although they 'd had it for a cert for quite a long time during the miner 's strike I think . |
| 7 | His father had wounded another bull in the same herd , but not mortally , and although they had tracked it by a faint blood trail for an hour , in the end , to the senator 's ill-concealed irritation , they had been forced to abandon the search . |
| 8 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 9 | I think most Prisoners would say that the sex problem worried them less than they had expected it to , but that is not to say that it did not worry most people some of the time and some people all the time . |
| 10 | He 'd picked up some cream that they 'd given me for a skin rash , stuck it under my blindfold and said , in a curious high-pitched waver , ‘ Champignons ? ’ |
| 11 | Paul Ingouf then said that they wished to take us to the spot where the aircraft had crashed . |
| 12 | At home , the cows were managed by the women , who hand-milked them and ensured that they continued to yield plenty of good quality milk and were selected for being docile and good-tempered . |
| 13 | They may not have a reason to prefer one way of going about things to another , but the fact that they chose to do it in a particular way gives them a reason to prefer that way from now on . |
| 14 | But we do think that the fact that they chose to launch it on the last day of our Conference is quite a compliment ; it was after all the Green Party that forced the government to produce the White Paper as a result of our fifteen% in the European Elections last year . |
| 15 | More than that , he felt insulted that they had hidden it from him . |
| 16 | Many of those who went and fought for the Republicans were not always clear about why they were there , except that they felt a revulsion against fascism and a general feeling that they had to do something in the face of the frustrations of the 1930s . |
| 17 | Members were pleased when constituents said that they had seen them on the box , and only one Member had received complaints that he had not been seen . |
| 18 | Finally , by focusing upon the deficiencies of the young unemployed — their lack of training , their lack of qualifications , their lack of job search skills — it appeared that they had caused themselves to be unemployed . |
| 19 | However in all fairness to the Halling unit a number of those older men who fought in the first war wore medals for gallantry , and were to show us youngsters that they had lost none of their skills with a rifle . |
| 20 | She describes how women organized their time creating routines to give order to their days and set goals so as to be able to feel that they had achieved something with their labour . |
| 21 | She implied that they had heard it in the shop and Tony said reassuringly , ‘ Do n't worry about it . |
| 22 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 23 | Later I found that they had put me in prison because of my madness . |
| 24 | Why should he feel that they had bred him to disappointment ? |
| 25 | The judge went on to say that they had notices of committal and that they had removed themselves from the jurisdiction . |
| 26 | They were reinstated by the deputy chief constable on the grounds that the investigation by the Police Complaints Authority had produced no evidence that they had removed anything from the Crown Court file . |
| 27 | True , we had shown that protein and RNA synthesis increased when chicks were exposed to the stimulus , but how could we be sure this was due to the fact that they had learned something about it ? |
| 28 | Harry swore Sam to secrecy , and the two young fishermen told their crews that they had found nothing but an empty boat . |
| 29 | Some of them could not believe that they had found themselves in a church , and were only stopping off en route to a nearby pub . |
| 30 | Sotheby 's Amsterdam , recently announced with pride that they had got themselves into The Guinness Book of Records . |