Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Survivors quietly described how families were destroyed , women abused , men castrated ; how the Gestapo made them play their gypsy violins even while they performed their atrocities . |
| 2 | Saying er , I was telling it the other day , she said you could spend all that money on and she said , we went to see this horse , it was years ago before they got their own , she said the horse had just had its foal and it was like he 'd spent a thousand pound on the , the actual stallion yeah and it come out |
| 3 | JACK CHARLTON ( Leeds and England 1952–72 ) : ‘ I think he summed it up for me a couple of years ago when they questioned him being an Englishman in charge of the Irish team . |
| 4 | It was one and a half hours later before they reached him , caught up in all the plants , still shouting ‘ What have I done ? |
| 5 | About five minutes later as they watched its dying effects a great sound wave enveloped the ship . |
| 6 | A child darted out in front of the striding troopers so that they checked their pace . |
| 7 | And he came back to er and started again and er he 'd just er er the big manufacturer engineering er people made us lace machines then and they started him off with three , and he 'd paid off one and part of the other when he died . |
| 8 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 9 | His child-like enjoyment of the new equipment and gadgetry he came to be able to afford in later life gave warmly affectionate amusement to his friends especially when they found him camping in his own front garden in the latest tent and sleeping bag , or were asked to take him , when he was stone-blind from glaucoma , to the locations of his favourite plants to photograph them with an auto-focus camera . |
| 10 | Anecdotal stories show that Smith had often understood the subjects of other mathematicians ' researches better than they had themselves , but had not published because he saw further than they did , and realised that their results were special cases of a general theory not fully uncovered . |
| 11 | The last glow had gone from the sunflowers now and they hung their heads on their spindly supports . |
| 12 | He did n't fancy Lizzy 's chances much if they decided they all wanted a bit of the action . |
| 13 | If she went out it was at night and she would arrange her veils so that they covered her face four times . |
| 14 | A WANDERING busker with a record of 50 convictions for being drunk and disorderly was given a conditional discharge by Scarborough Magistrates yesterday after they heard he was a harmless nuisance . |
| 15 | Apple , in particular , have been building their repertoire of authoring tools ever since they launched their quintessential multimedia platform , the Macintosh . |