Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To illustrate the way many of them operated he cited the case of a widow who in 1894 borrowed £50 from a London loan bank on the security of her furniture which was valued at £250 . |
| 2 | Eight of them lived their last years in their children 's homes . |
| 3 | Not a one of them realized I was not human . |
| 4 | Six of them lent her £3,700 , secured by the Trust with interest , to pay ‘ all incumbrances absolutely necessary to be immediately discharged ’ . |
| 5 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 6 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 7 | They seemed happy about my victory in Germany and most of them expected me to win more races last year . ’ |
| 8 | Neither of them expected it , especially with everyone listening in . |
| 9 | One day , one of them asked me , ‘ Have you ever seen any of our Struldbrugs ? ’ |
| 10 | One of them asked him a question . |
| 11 | They rode in five westbound trains and four eastbound trains , observing how the crowds began to thin , especially in those heading for inner London , encountering no trouble beyond some pushing and shoving by teenage boys and a smoker in the third car who put out his cigarette without protest when one of them asked him . |
| 12 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 13 | " My mother is threatening to dismiss all the staff unless I tell her which one of them admitted me back into the house last night . |
| 14 | That is getting away from the old system whereby the County Council held a vast store of advisers in Macclesfield House , stacked up , and schools that needed them requested them and off they went , but schools in fact that wanted perhaps a different sort of advice , was n't able to get it from Macclesfield House , and could n't buy it outside because it did n't have the money to do so . |
| 15 | All of them met their husbands here at the lodge . ’ |
| 16 | He had quite rightly decided that he could do no good by playing with the Huns at 20,000 feet , so came down to see that none of them got me . ’ |
| 17 | None of them got him to justify our membership of the ERM , which is , as everyone knows , the cause of our high interest rates . |
| 18 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 19 | Not one of them got what they were promised . |
| 20 | That 's one third of them got it ? |
| 21 | To babies had this dried milk and some of them got it cheap and I suppose there was no work and then they were poor were n't they . |
| 22 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 23 | Then one of them led him up the garden path to a shed . |
| 24 | It was a moody holiday and I followed the roads ; some of them led me aright and some astray . |
| 25 | Most of them applied themselves to their exercise books , their faces contorted with intellectual effort . |
| 26 | Some of them became my friends and have remained so until the present day , but the sheer earthy mass of them made me realize how my few months of married life had changed me . |
| 27 | Just watching them made me feel ill . |
| 28 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 29 | The prospect of seeing them made him full of joy . |
| 30 | Her own family has suffered the anguish of repossession , and her personal story of how her local Liberal Democrat-controlled council helped them made her the winner in the school 's mock election . |