Example sentences of "they [verb] [noun] [conj] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By night , they made love and shared their dreams . |
| 2 | Hurrying back to the town , they applied restoratives and brought her back to consciousness . |
| 3 | Du Camp records how they visited Thermopylae and re-read their Plutarch on the battlefield . |
| 4 | All of them were big men who had drawn lots for the honour of the occasion , and carefully they lifted Artai and carried him up the short flight of steps to the summit of the plinth . |
| 5 | ‘ He was about 25 miles offshore when he approached the fishing boat and the crew was so alarmed at his ignorance they radioed coastguards and brought him back to Falmouth , ’ Mr Taylor said . |
| 6 | He wrote again , a careful , stilted letter , expressing gratitude for the help he had received and suggesting they shook hands and called it a day . |
| 7 | And to do it without a lot without a lot of support from the a from the people who actually lived in the flats , although they organized things and got it going , and the people living there did n't seem to be motivated to give them the kind of encouragement erm |
| 8 | They clasped hands and held them clasped for a time . |
| 9 | They shortened swords and used them like daggers at armpits and neck . |
| 10 | Your mother was a witch 's daughter , born in your world but not in your time — long before that , in a time when they feared witches and hung them from the gallows tree . |
| 11 | They took pictures and reported it to the RSPCA . |
| 12 | These figures were revealed when Korn/Ferry decided to go public and sell 25% of their equity to outsiders ; but when the stock price fell soon after , they took fright and bought their shares back . |
| 13 | They wanted to learn and because of this they used and developed their skills — they measured , weighed , compared and counted , they kept notes and discussed their findings . |
| 14 | They clinked glasses and sipped their liqueurs in a companionable silence , forgetting for a minute or two the gruesome nature of their discussion . |
| 15 | There , they gave tests and examined me . |
| 16 | erm , do n't , they just do n't think cos our kids you know they 'll have money erm , say they had money and bought them presents |
| 17 | Had they not all agreed when they left Ecalpemos and went their separate ways that it.was to be as if they had never met , known each other , lived together , that in future they must be strangers and more than strangers ? |
| 18 | Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past . |
| 19 | They had built up the fabric in their minds again and could even feel some weary well-being as they neared Weem and saw it sheltering between the steep hills and the flood plain of the Tay . |