Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [conj] they [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She often shrewdly suspected that they found it hard work too , and that for all their signatures of fondest love they did not really like her ; they wanted her , they thought that she would do , but they did not really like her . |
| 2 | I hated rugby but I always played when they wanted me to because I was really fast . |
| 3 | She broke off abruptly , as they always did when they felt themselves nearing the forbidden topic . |
| 4 | He clearly demonstrated that they formed their spores in sac-like structures known as asci , typical of the Ascomycetes . |
| 5 | I could not understand at the time why they thought we were Germans , but I later discovered that they knew we were people from a border and the only border they could think of was the one with Austria , which for them was the same as Germany . |
| 6 | Jane Ashton was a slim girl , with short , soft hair curling around a face so pleasant that people automatically smiled when they met her . |
| 7 | It is customary for artists to feel antagonism towards critics , and though Sylvester was welcomed at the Royal College 's Senior Common Room , the painters sometimes joked that they found their ideas a week later in the pages of The Listener translated into the very different language of the critic : Minton , accordingly , coined the term ‘ pre-Sylvestration ’ to refer to this process . |
| 8 | They sat up as I came in , then relaxed when they recognised me . |
| 9 | The Force knew that their meticulously erected edifices of proof would n't fall to pieces under cross-examination when he was in the witness box , although he sometimes suspected that they found him too scrupulous for complete comfort . |
| 10 | The others pushed on past him in the doorway , but they too stopped when they saw what was revealed on the other side of the windows . |