Example sentences of "[vb pp] [conj] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry felt as if he had heard or read them all before , in one form or another , and none of them shed any light on what had struck Mrs Diamond as ‘ not right ’ : |
| 2 | They read and reread , often looking quite abstracted , memorizing passages silently , their eyes far off ; and when ideas eluded or baffled them they would turn to one another for help , each sister seeming to draw strength and comfort from the other 's closeness . |
| 3 | Beside the total rewards such men expected and obtained they are minute . |
| 4 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 5 | No sound , nothing but the gentle flurry of leaves as the wind lifted and scattered them like pieces of gold across the grass . |
| 6 | All eyes opened now to stare , and indeed the pages of the book were turning back , slowly , hesitantly , lingering erect only to slide onward , sometimes a single leaf , sometimes a stronger breath riffling several over together , almost as though fingers lifted and guided them , even fluttered them past in haste . |
| 7 | He picked up the papers he had discarded and laid them out so that he could check his own reports while Coy spoke to him . |
| 8 | With a long , unhappy sigh , Hilary bundled up the clothes she had discarded and carried them downstairs . |
| 9 | Free sparring accustoms beginners to being attacked and teaches them how to handle certain situations using the techniques they have been taught up to that stage . |
| 10 | Children misbehave when they are discouraged and believe they can not succeed by useful means . |
| 11 | Under threat : Irish premier Albert Reynolds looks certain to fall today after three members of his frail coalition government resigned and affirmed they would oppose a vote of confidence . |
| 12 | This is updated as the system works through the files to be offlined and copies them onto the media item . |
| 13 | Associations were formed and meetings held to get people organised and to keep them informed . |
| 14 | It 's when the family come in and they 've been prepared by a doctor whose speciality it is , and they have lists of things that they have witnessed you do , that have embarrassed and humiliated them . |
| 15 | ‘ E 'ad ter come an' fetch 'em . ’ |
| 16 | The contractors would n't be interviewed but said they check the standard of food every day and they are n't aware of any dissatisfaction amongst the kitchen staff . |
| 17 | In fact , almost 20 per cent have never driven on their own on a motorway and many fear breaking down and being attacked whilst using them . |
| 18 | When applications that year were made , Lauda and others were smart enough to realize that the licences had been so designed as to tie them to their teams , a move cleverly designed by certain constructors to lower the price war among drivers and to prevent desertions in the ranks . |
| 19 | John McKay ( Points of View , 15 February ) writes that Father James Morrow ‘ like the Pharisees , forgets that the laws he follows were made for man/woman and the social circumstances have to be considered when applying them ’ . |
| 20 | Yes , the words fitted by then , no matter who had written or said them . |
| 21 | Whatever people like Page may have felt or thought they felt about the Vietnam war , it is difficult not to regard them as much its victims as its predators . |
| 22 | They will not attack , but if disturbed or cornered they will defend themselves . |
| 23 | Our senses may inform us that any single whole is equal to all its parts ; but not that all wholes in the world are so , unless we could suppose , that we had seen or felt them all . |
| 24 | This is used mainly where tantrums are severe and where it is felt that stopping them altogether is too big a first step . |
| 25 | His mother looked nervously at them as they came in long after dark — she was obdurately against the recalling of ‘ the bad old times ’ and she would neither ask them what they had seen nor let them tell her . |
| 26 | Some folks have actually said that have they ? |
| 27 | I 've seen it , seen that one I 've seen that match they were lucky . |
| 28 | Of the two passengers , both women , one had turned and given them a glare , the other pretended nothing was going on . |
| 29 | right and do n't worry about getting 'em done and getting 'em back to us |
| 30 | For me that was vindication for the disagreements I 'd had with Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson , both of whom saw the music and titles after they 'd been done and said they did n't like them . |