Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , they lost so much money so frequently on them that they became disillusioned with all options and by proxy any other financial instruments . |
| 2 | Stevie , sensitive man that he was , had also picked up the atmosphere , Chris 's unusual silence and the way they avoided looking at each other . |
| 3 | They stopped shouting at each other , expecting the Headmaster to burst in on them at any moment . |
| 4 | The on-screen couple , quietly glowing with beauty and amusement — they seemed made for each other ; but after various misunderstandings and adventures they ended up going their separate ways . |
| 5 | They seemed to stare into each other 's faces for a very long time . |
| 6 | They were arrested as they prepared to go to another rave in Ashington . |
| 7 | The other score — of damage to sons , property and livestock — was never calculated , but the injuries sustained were not considered excessive , and everyone agreed that it was one of the best hurling matches they 'd seen in several years . |
| 8 | Which was crazy , she reflected as she sat there , after all the things they 'd done to each other with their bodies , and the things yet to be done . |
| 9 | They 'd asked for more space , as part of the head office refurbishment , but this was ridiculous ! |
| 10 | I do n't know what happened to the front entrance , but there was a basement underneath there and my first wife was dancing in Harvey Martin 's dance hall underneath , her pal and herself she , they 'd gone to this dance it was a dancing lesson on a Saturday night it was famous in those days Harvey Martin 's dance class er yes I |
| 11 | She realised she was revolving everything they 'd said to each other round and round in her mind . |
| 12 | Doctors at a Bristol hospital said today , they 'd called for more research following two cases there in which mothers had used water baths in the early stages of labour . |
| 13 | I could n't believe it both of them and they 'd smashed into each other |
| 14 | They began to look for more drink and the Junior showed his initiative by going up to the off-licence with the Porter and bringing back armfuls of the stuff . |
| 15 | When they started to gather for another push , the second wave of mounted police went in , scattering the pickets right across the field . |
| 16 | I can recall a class of ten-year-olds designing their own Norman village for several drama sessions before they became engaged in non-projected drama activity ( personal play , as Peter Slade calls it ) , i.e. before they started interacting with each other as villagers instead of through their designs . |
| 17 | well they were they was rolling in all the muck in the farmyard but they , they went to the pies just put their noses round them and turned them over and then they s and true as god made little apples they started walking round these pies and they left them and they were still there when we went away . |
| 18 | When they discovered a pair of woman 's shoes they decided to hunt for more clues , even joking that ‘ we might find a body . ’ |
| 19 | Shortly afterwards , Fiona and James moved to Belgium , where they decided to try for another baby . |
| 20 | He had had 2,500 letters from members of the public expressing their grief , sympathy and admiration for a man who they felt had in some way belonged to ordinary people and understood them . |
| 21 | They went looking for former hotel porter Joao Gomes , 40 , after his wife Maria , 39 , was stabbed to death on Tuesday at her flat on the Elysee Estate in St Helier . |
| 22 | they went to look at some homes in Thorne , did n't they ? |
| 23 | For the hundreds of thousands of Spanish — and non-Spanish — democrats and leftists who fought and died in the Civil War or in the horrendous repression that followed , the forces against which they struggled differed in few essentials from those that had recently brought dictatorship and oppression to Italy , Germany and Austria . |
| 24 | Then , for the first time she noticed how clumsy they were — they kept bumping into each other . |
| 25 | They kept talking about this creature . |
| 26 | Yeah I know they did talk about this Doreen and Owen , because er |
| 27 | When they did run into each other on the borders of their territories , they usually tried to kill each other . |
| 28 | But they did escape with some cash and costume jewellery which did not have any great value but which was important sentimentally to me . |
| 29 | They had stared at each other without speaking for a moment , and then she said , ‘ She deserves a five-shilling Christmas Box . ’ |
| 30 | Temperature — an intense degree of heat — was the route that the big machines , the hot fusion tokamaks , had been following in their attempt to induce the nuclei to meet ; Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had stumbled on another way — intense pressures provided by the natural make-up of solid palladium . |