Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Look there , they are startling and snorting now — you have frightened them and they will not eat before the journey . |
| 2 | She would dearly have loved to have joined them but they were all older . |
| 3 | He was n't the only one who was flummoxed ; Three fine calves had shown symptoms of acute gastric pain , I had treated them and they had died . |
| 4 | The French had wounded them and they were too dead . ’ |
| 5 | Beating drums and sticks and piping , with dancers and tumblers leaping ahead of them , the grave band of three old men and four younger ones in cloaks of feathers and aprons of leaves had approached him and they had parleyed , as far as their inability to communicate in language allowed . |
| 6 | Some bibles say that , that they 've come to this , at the end of the day , they had n't quite , had it at that point anyway , cos they 'd approached it cos they were still alive were n't they ? |
| 7 | The men never looked anything until they were at least forty , and the women , especially the thin ones , went into a condition of permanent desiccation in their mid-twenties . |
| 8 | And then he had watched two men leave the Tower and walk across towards the Stones , towards his Stones , and he had clambered down from his perch and hidden himself where they would not see him but where he could watch them . |
| 9 | While I 've been injured I 've missed them and they 've missed me . |
| 10 | Had others pitied me as they flashed past . |
| 11 | They 've shot me like they did Valesio . |
| 12 | They had never seen me so they thought I was white . |
| 13 | I have n't seen them since they were born . ’ |
| 14 | The Marshal had seen them as they stood gossiping in the street at an equal distance between the two buildings so as to keep their doors in view , but it would be a waste of time trying to get her to admit it . |
| 15 | Carla had once met them as they were walking by the seafront . |
| 16 | These are sacrifices by any standards but they have not made them because they want to be heroes . |
| 17 | They have made them because they are determined to do everything they can to save their business and their employees ' jobs and to secure a healthier future . |
| 18 | She changed into her shorts — Fen had donned his before they went shopping — and , remembering Fen 's earlier insinuations , she opted for a baggy T-shirt which , she hoped , made her figure as sexless as a boy 's , then went aloft , tense , wary , uncertain of her reception . |
| 19 | Sometimes you see someone painting a door or something and get that little bit done there and then they step back to make sure they have n't missed something cos they could be it could be so obvious to anyone who 's just standing , What 's he doing there he 's left a big piece in the corner there that |
| 20 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 21 | June 's having noticed him when they first met and her ability to put things into words now became unbearable to Robert . |
| 22 | I have n't seen him since they took him away , screaming his head off , with Jonathan Johns telling everybody gathered round that it was all my fault , bloomin' unfair because I ca n't help it if Pitt has the kind of bones that break easily , can I ? |
| 23 | Graham could hardly believe how much Laidlaw had changed since he had last seen him when they were both still with Delta . |
| 24 | Here they have seen her because they have been within thirty feet of her . |
| 25 | But she must have done it after they left ; she 'd have to , if she wanted to let the place . |
| 26 | We 've done it since they lied about what happens |
| 27 | She could have been stoned , people would have mocked her as she passed in the street , as they jeered and booed that girl Serafina when she started getting bigger and everyone knew who 'd done it but they could n't do anything about it , not even kill him , because he was the son of a nobleman -Rosalba shuddered , remembering the way Serafina had thrown up her chin and turned and screamed at her tormentors , ‘ And which one of you is so good that you can point at me ! ’ , then dropped her head and run away down the street , holding her heavy breasts as she ran . |
| 28 | In others , they have done it because they have felt they have had to : perhaps they would have failed to attract and keep labour if the jobs had been too fragmented . |
| 29 | Of the women who admitted to New Woman magazine that they had slept with another man about 80 per cent said they 'd done it because they were unhappy in their current relationship . |
| 30 | Because they said they 'd always done it and they had nowhere else to put it . |