Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these were matters which preoccupied theologians ( whose intellectual reputation was not high ) , philosophers and artists ( who were admired but somewhat in the manner in which wealthy men admire the diamonds they can afford to buy their women ) and social critics , of the left or right , who did not like the kind of society they lived in or found themselves forced into . |
| 2 | It was , therefore , extremely relevant to him that Wagner had a less complicated view of the age they lived in and found it possible to regard the rise of the new Reich as the outward expression of , precisely , Germanic health and strength . |
| 3 | They drove over and picked him up . |
| 4 | The sergeant was chasing you round and if they came round and saw you coming out of a shop , you had to have a good explanation . |
| 5 | But my friends really got me out afterwards , they came round and took me out . |
| 6 | They came in and asked us to stop . |
| 7 | They came in and kissed her dutifully , with affection neither taken nor given ; Lilian , Clare , Olivia . |
| 8 | They came out and gave him paracetemol and painkillers . |
| 9 | They came down and took our suitcases into the house . |
| 10 | But then they came back and said it was changed to ‘ Everything We Do Is Driven By You ’ and my initial thought was ‘ Yuk , I do n't think I can do anything with that either , ’ because it just sounded like motor cars and I 'm not interested in singing songs about motor cars . |
| 11 | They came back and said there were three more like her . ’ |
| 12 | They turned round and said I was wasting the officers ' time , looking around searching for me , but I could n't go anywhere with all the doors locked . |
| 13 | They use a lot yeah the ch I put it in my I mean , I said yesterday to him , we 've got the decorators in and then co they turned round and said he is meant to be a businessman and they said he can not believe they 've never met tha such a penny pinching guy |
| 14 | And then when we went for wheel balancing told us to take it back for balancing and tracking , they turned round and says we 're not doing it . |
| 15 | We greeted them but no one returned our salutations ; instead , as we approached , they shuffled round and turned their backs on us . |
| 16 | Is this when they rang up and said they 'd got cakes left ? |
| 17 | ‘ Things got a bit out of hand when they rang back and asked us talk live to Gerry . |
| 18 | They dashed out and pulled them up — and drug squad colleagues in Cwmbran , Gwent , later confirmed that the plants were big enough to have supplied hundreds of joints . |
| 19 | They milled around and tidied him up to his satisfaction and went on their way singing : |
| 20 | While they cleaned up and packed their equipment away Nina put the kettle on and made tea , then they all collapsed in the staff-room . |
| 21 | They had no agents , no TV advertising or over-the-top reporting and yet they went out and paraded their skills to an appreciative audience , receiving no more , or no less reward than any of their team-mates . |
| 22 | Dad patted me on the head and Mum gives me this little kiss on the cheek and then they went off and left me with this old woman . |
| 23 | Mum kept calling her ‘ sister ’ , but she was n't my sister — Annie was and I did n't want to stay there , but they went off and left me . |
| 24 | They reached out and pulled him into the Ship . |
| 25 | They wrote back and said you have proof but you do n't have receipts and |
| 26 | Owing to pressure of work , Brush evidently purchased sixteen body shells from U.E.C. for the larger cars , which they fitted out and trucked themselves at Loughborough . |
| 27 | The to following allow and permit can be conceived with either an initial interception , as in ( 212 ) and ( 213 ) , or a final one , as in They stood by and allowed him to steal my car . |
| 28 | Pushing his cart and yelling like Dervishes , they jumped up and pinned him down . |