Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He caught sight of a few others , but they turned tail and vanished when they saw him through the mist . |
| 2 | Then in a tobacconist 's window she saw ‘ cigars ’ marked fourpence and thought that they looked something like the kind she had seen Chignell buying the other night . |
| 3 | I read them and cried as they took me back through time , down the long bloody passageways of the last seventy-five years . |
| 4 | They reassured Pamela that they did trust her , but added that they hoped she would feel more able to be open with them about her social life . |
| 5 | But suspected that they enjoyed their glimpses of it , on occasions such as this . |