Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes bulged as if they were coming out of his head . |
| 2 | Despite adequate possession , Leicester had rarely threatened to pierce a Tranmere defence who fought as if they were also involved in the top of the table excitement . |
| 3 | When Alexei Sultanov , a nineteen-year-old from the USSR , was finally declared the winner , he rushed up on stage and lifted his trophy over his head and yipped with glee and the people of Fort Worth stood and clapped as if they had been seized with divine ecstasy . |
| 4 | Mr Plant and his wife and children were there , but when he met Mrs Gedge face to face near the hoopla they passed as if they were strangers . |
| 5 | She invited help and then behaved towards those who helped as if they were incompetent or , like her mother , were taking over . |
| 6 | The meal that accompanied it was a feast , cooked and served by the patronne with justifiable pride : tiny moules marinières , which tasted as if they had been cut from the rocks that morning ; bifteck , brown and crisp on the outside , perfectly rare within ; a platter of thin crisp sizzling hot pommes frites ; an excellent salad , served in a plain white bowl . |
| 7 | Next day we were visited by a pod of dolphins which behaved as if they had escaped from a circus . |
| 8 | He behaved as if they were insects . |
| 9 | McConnell claimed that the cannibal worms behaved as if they remembered the conditioned response their food had learned , whereas worms allowed to cannibalize other , untrained worms showed no such change in behaviour . |
| 10 | No other manufacturer would be so profligate in their use of fabric but the Ashleys behaved as if they had fabric to spare . |
| 11 | Instead they took refuge in the weaker claim that agents , on average over time , behaved as if they possessed the correct underlying model for the purposes of prediction . |
| 12 | Then , as if to break the spell , the sheep dogs began to bark frenziedly and the nearby sheep stampeded as if they sensed impending danger . |
| 13 | Old feuds of race were diminishing , rivalries and prejudices were by degrees fading out.Such frequent and such intimate relations had thus been established between nations , that it seemed as if they must soon unite in one family , in one single federal state . |
| 14 | It seemed as if they were laughing now . |
| 15 | Mortgage rates increased dramatically and seemed as if they would never fall . |
| 16 | Now it seemed as if they were postponed indefinitely . |
| 17 | I knew so little about who had held them and how they had got out , it seemed as if they had come from a different world , a different time . |
| 18 | He beamed at them again and Caspar was beginning to relax , because it seemed as if they might escape after all and Fenella was remembering about magic being very nearly everyday here , when Pumlumon said , ‘ Of course , that 's so long as I can remember the words . ’ |
| 19 | She felt her breasts rise with her shortened breath , and it seemed as if they were straining to brush his well-developed chest . |
| 20 | It seemed as if they 'd been wrong about one thing and only too right about the other . |
| 21 | They 'll soon work out where the lorry came from and they 'll be coming up here and I think they might be very angry . ’ |
| 22 | Gerard 's home was the first one the killers came to as they left the Tiger 's Bay Loyalist stronghold . |
| 23 | His lands are seized and the monks at Glastonbury bullied as if they are the inmates of some prison . ’ |
| 24 | I have had gill flukes ( not personally ! ) and my fish did n't scratch ; they acted as if they were being poisoned ( heightened colour , loss of control of movement ) , possibly because of oxygen depletion due to gill damage . |
| 25 | With the rising and falling of the blaze , the stone faces showed as if they were in torment . |
| 26 | The two Highlanders grinned as if they understood every word , Carey smirked whilst Scawsby gave that neighing laugh which made the blood beat in my temples . |
| 27 | I went to the Bluecoat School in Walsall and they erm they used to run a A T C wing in there which later to belonged to and they they brought this Hawker Demon in , which was a plane into the playground for the instruction of the A T C fellas and the kids all ripped the canvas off it for souvenirs and it was down to a skeleton in no time |
| 28 | Gaveston talked as if they were in some pleasant garden . |
| 29 | Sprawling out from one tunnel , glassy branching tentacles pulsed as if they were huge muscles dissected out of the body of a leviathan . |
| 30 | All four blushed as if they had one heart . |