Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 2 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 3 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 4 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 5 | They found you in the snow and they carried you to the nearest shelter . |
| 6 | He asked to see the horse and they took him to the stable . |
| 7 | No and we 'd got three young girls , new , new girls and I saw those and I must have been thinking about Mandy and the car because they said something about oh when we leave we 're all going on a picnic to and I think it was Kettering or quite some time aw some |
| 8 | They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery . |
| 9 | It took a long time to break away from the idea that children were at best potentially evil and indolent , that they were little pitchers that had to be filled with information and moral guidance before they filled themselves with wickedness , idleness , and nonsense . |
| 10 | She had started the second stage of labour when they carried her into the Rotunda and hurried her away into the labour ward . |
| 11 | Some played up to the queue even more than I did , and at times it was quite a pantomime as they expressed themselves in their broken English with much arm waving and competitive claims . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 13 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 14 | began the camp , there all around this er village and they took it into the er |
| 15 | Some female handed them a hypo-bulb and they sprayed it into Jezrael 's face , and there was a physical paralysis leadening her without physical pain . |
| 16 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 17 | There was a case in Lothian last year where the health board objected to the conversion of somewhere into a 75 bed registered nursing home and they lost it on appeal . |
| 18 | His hands dangled over the sides of the wheelchair as they took him to the salon to meet the Bishop . |
| 19 | We phoned the vet and they talked us through what was happening . |
| 20 | During an opera we had a lighting change and they misinformed me about the weights . |
| 21 | My men , whom I had instructed to keep close together and sing from the time they left the camp until they joined me on the forest road , were not due for an hour and a half , and during this time it was more than likely that the tigress would break cover and try to stalk or rush me . |
| 22 | And then er that 's one of t the the boss made that cabinet there er it 's got the feet er but and these are what they call astricles These panes of glass are all in er individually you know , they 're all put in and to polish these wee astricles oh you you had to be very deli cos they 're very thin you know , and you had to flay them and polish and they lay them in the thing and then they they were fitted in and then the glass was The doors were sent to the glaziers Certain amount of polish on them and then the doors were sent to the glazers and then they were finished after that you know . |
| 23 | Next , the next person receives a picture of a boy on a bike because the accident was a hit and run accident and they hit someone on a bike . |
| 24 | Gloucester needed an early score , an early lead and they got it after just 9 minutes when they won a penalty right in front of the posts . |
| 25 | You had to bring someone into the business and they brought someone into the business and that was their form of selling . |
| 26 | Mary had found some oil of citronella in an old-fashioned medicine chest in the Deathbed Room and they rubbed it on themselves for good measure . |
| 27 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 28 | They had found no less than five flesh wounds on his body when they stripped him of his armour , but all clean and none dangerous , once the draining of his blood was staunched . |
| 29 | The Court of Appeal dismissed an Inland Revenue challenge to a High Court ruling that £75,000 paid to England and Derby County goalkeeper Peter Shilton by Nottingham Forest when they sold him to Southampton in 1982 should be treated as a ‘ golden handshake ’ . |
| 30 | Dried their own grain afore they took it to the mill . |