Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Before they left they blasted the Government for demolishing more than 400,000 jobs in the industry in three years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When they arrived they found the police already there' ( Labour Research , 1984 ) . |
| 7 | Coming to a particular spot , she said ‘ Dig theear ’ , and when they did they found the stump of the old one . |
| 8 | 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 . |