Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | my Lord , er , er , in , in my submission the , the , the highest really could put their case is that if the matter were referred your Lordship simply did n't stay proceedings or permitted them for example to apply for interim payment or permitted them to take some procedural steps to pursue their action so that they were n't unduly delayed should they succeed at the end of the day and that would be a major concession because it would run against a normal rule cos on a reference the entire proceedings are stayed , that 's not a case just saying even if that is done , er that anybody is saying that particular measure is or is good is not good or may not be forced in the interim |
| 2 | He talked with them in his study or took them for walks in the park . |
| 3 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 4 | From the opening , during the cold New York winter of 1967 , the queues extending round the block outside Manhattan cinemas consisted mostly of young people hugging themselves and each other , and stamping their feet to keep warm , full of the expectation of seeing a movie that addressed them and their problems . |
| 5 | Of the monastery that planted them — |
| 6 | These middle-class heroes and heroines returned from their exploits in the great outdoors of the Cotswolds or the Cornish Moors to the sound of the gong that summoned them to groaning tables . |
| 7 | Two days into the journey then met with torrential rain in northern Italy ; this was only to serve as a sign of things to come ; the icy roads and driving snow that faced them as they climbed the Alps ! |
| 8 | The setting that clawed them was as dirty as old teeth . |
| 9 | And yet how could the non-Russians indefinitely accept a division of labour that left them , in some cases , as ‘ raw material ’ republics , exporting their primary produce and importing more expensive manufactured goods ? |
| 10 | Younger sons did not at this time seek to maintain their gentility by going into the church or the army or by living off an annuity that allowed them to pass their time in respectable ease . |
| 11 | Little Gabriels , out of control most of the time and impossible to educate , but with a fund of kindness that led them to rescue and foster wounded animals and plague her with them in the home . |
| 12 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 13 | We had just come out of a 12.30 matinee and the street was burning in the sun and those who had come out of the theatre was cool and real but the others in the street were moving in a white light that had them like shadows . |
| 14 | Apparently it was Miles ' fishing that got them up so early . |
| 15 | The surge that brought them forward had cut them off . |
| 16 | BHC engineers came up with a floppier , tapered skirt that allowed them to reduce the pressure of the air cushion . |
| 17 | Merrill sensed that he was trying to put her at her ease , building a bridge over the rift that divided them , to get the evening off to a good start . |
| 18 | ‘ Not Ralarth 's ‘ Wares , though , ’ Murtach said , his blue eyes narrowed against the wind that watered them . |
| 19 | IT 'S the rematch of the decade — the Buffalo Bills against the side that made them look like schoolboys in Superbowl XXVII , the Dallas Cowboys . |
| 20 | When the nurses — who , to encourage morale , insisted that every patient , however ill , should wash — came to help her , she submitted with an indifference that alarmed them . |
| 21 | Some of the most valuable ones do not themselves appear in other listings , and can often be found only through the institution that produced them ( the importance of organizations being a recurrent theme in subject bibliography ) . |
| 22 | Their courage in entering into the conflict and their presence of mind in circumstances in which they have been in enormous danger are a great tribute to the individuals themselves and to the institution that sent them . |
| 23 | Nigel Buxton , 41 , swerved snarply across the road when he lifted both his hands off the wheel and ran them through his hair , Didcot magistrates heard . |
| 24 | He blotted the card and slid them both under the counter . |
| 25 | The staff in Peter Robinson 's knew her , and in case they queried the propriety of her being there alone , she showed them her wedding ring and told them she was married . |
| 26 | Police believe British spy Ian Spiro cold-bloodedly walked from bedroom to bedroom and murdered them . |
| 27 | This would have given the BRDC a £1.4m profit on their orginal investment and allowed them to retain the right to five per cent of any future public flotation . |
| 28 | I nearly slipped up there Dick I , I , ick I nearly slipped up there President and called them slippery dog-eared toe-rags , I 'm glad I avoided that one |
| 29 | A UNEP press release said that since 1987 SLEJF has ‘ trained over 350 journalists in environmental reporting and educated them and their public about a wide range of environment and development issues . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ So , ’ he was saying to the Prince 's chauffeur as Owen arrived , ‘ you picked the two girls up from the salon and took them to the river at Beni Suef ? ’ |