Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As time goes on the need for such support will , obviously , diminish — it 's more than likely that your staff will become more conversant with the product than the person who either sold or trained them on it . |
| 2 | No one was allowed to resign ; people served until the Shah dismissed or moved them . |
| 3 | Whatever it was that lured or drove them there , these creatures , over the millennia , lumbering after their food , became more and more efficient at moving and breathing out of water . |
| 4 | Up to a certain size , that is to say the size attained by the rats at a few weeks old , she caught and ate them , and , with a sure instinct for authority , brought in their tails to lay them at the feet of Martha . |
| 5 | He rose and led them both down the stone steps , coming to a halt at the entrance to the vestry door . |
| 6 | When the entire pile had been transferred , she bunched the needles together with her hands and alternately stroked and beat them with her karaso , knitting them into a kind of rudimentary bale . |
| 7 | I joked and teased them all until some of the heaviness lifted . |
| 8 | The tracking and following of the youths , through rush-hour traffic , took Tom through most of Edinburgh New Town , and culminated , almost an hour later , with his flagging down a Police motor cyclist who stopped and questioned them at Mackenzie Place/India Place . |
| 9 | Carefully she knelt and gathered them up . |
| 10 | Adamus bowed to Ruth 's perfect breasts and mouthed and tongued them . |
| 11 | I doubt that an historian of welfare policy in the 1970s could access data and run it ( i.e. view it ) just as was done by the policy makers of the 1970s and their advisers , yet we can read the parliamentary reports of the nineteenth century at exactly the same speed and in exactly the same form as the policy makers who used and created them . |
| 12 | And Ron Barry , who inspected and passed them , is hardly likely at this stage willingly to foist unfair or unsuitable fences on the profession he so honourably adorned . |
| 13 | At the bar stood several men , well-dressed , hair slicked back , sharing the knowing sympathy of lions waiting until something passed that struck them as worth killing . |
| 14 | If you injured or offended them , ’ Thomas turned and pointed to the carvings on the rocky outcrop , a woman with large generous thighs and huge round breasts , ‘ they would put you in a wicker basket and burn you alive , an offering to their Mother Goddess . ’ |
| 15 | But her happenings were transformed by the characters who caused or suffered them ; she was an artist , unlike the Goncourts , who attached happenings to characters quite arbitrarily to suit their convenience . |
| 16 | Geneticists estimated that had they not selected for mastitis resistance the national incidence would have increased by 1.5% over that period . |
| 17 | Cornelius stooped and returned them to him . |
| 18 | She stooped and scooped them up . |
| 19 | Thacker enjoyed the entertainment for a full forty seconds , then stooped and pulled them apart as easily as if they were two bits of cotton fluff stuck together . |
| 20 | Still the thunder thundered and burned and shook them . |
| 21 | They astounded and horrified them . |
| 22 | Industrial and commercial groups are also paying dearly for their rash incursion into property , futures and other financial instruments during the late 1980s : the banks that advised and funded them are faring even worse . |
| 23 | I advised and charged them not to stretch themselves beyond their line by speaking out of the [ local ] society , or by fancying themselves public teachers . |
| 24 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |
| 25 | Two sides may each want to beat the other , they may even hate each other as sides , but if someone came and told them football is stupid and not worth playing or caring about , then they 'd feel together . |
| 26 | ‘ Supposing for instance someone came and said they were Mr Unwin , you would check that his name was on the list and let him in ? ’ |
| 27 | Try to be as enthusiastic as possible ( enthusiasm is catching ! ) and take the names of everyone who came and ask them if they know of any other Christians to invite to the next meeting . |
| 28 | I just went past these fellows and one of them shouted , ‘ Hey , speccy four-eyes , ’ and I ignored them like you told me and then they came and took them off and stamped on them . ’ |
| 29 | And what is it , they took no note and the flood came and swept them all away . |
| 30 | They talked for ages , making their drinks last , and no one came and bothered them at all . |