Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet Llewelyn felt the forces of heaven moving him , and aligned himself with them boldly , going without hesitation where they carried him . |
| 2 | Three hooded gunmen wearing Lebanese Army fatigues entered his apartment where they killed him , his wife and their two small sons . |
| 3 | They accused me of going to hit one of them with it … they put me in a police van and took me to Victoria Barracks where they kept me for two hours . |
| 4 | How many ships suddenly developed strange ghost personae ; mechanical poltergeists in the engine room ; voices where they had none before ? |
| 5 | As has been suggested , it was particularly the perceived threat to the importance of organised religion that they represented which galvanized Mrs Whitehouse and others into action . |
| 6 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 7 | The Russian official recently so upset his domestic association that they suspended him for two months , although UEFA insist : ‘ He 's still one of the best referees in Europe and the right man for the job . ’ |
| 8 | There was going to be a riot so they brought her up . |
| 9 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 10 | Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps . |
| 11 | And last night he eluded his two markers to decisive effect although they shadowed him well for much of the match . |
| 12 | The staff talked only banalities at her , until she could have screamed with irritation , and try as she might to ignore it , there was no doubt in her mind that they disliked her , these crisp women in their crisp uniforms . |
| 13 | No club was named in the piece but Wyre Boat Angling Club have complained to Angler 's Mail that they recognized themselves as the targets of Bob 's attack — and say his comments are inaccurate , totally unjustified and reflect solely a minority view . |
| 14 | Secondly were Mrs White 's brother and sister-in-law who were reported earlier as saying at second interview that they thought she should remain at home ‘ if things keep as they 're going now , and she gets the services she 's getting ’ . |
| 15 | Turning now to those carers who said in their first interview that they wanted their relative to remain at home , one would expect that those in the action sample would be more likely to have retained that preference than those in the control sample ( assuming that the project has provided extra home care when needed and therefore indirectly or directly assisted or relieved the principal carers ) . |
| 16 | Well again er , er a three bedroomed house , I would , you see and they were putting one plug in , in , in each , each bedroom and , and two plugs in the main bedroom so they dropped one down altogether and erm , erm in a lounge like this to put two plugs in , sort of one in that corner and one in that corner it 's no good to anybody , it 's , as much as anything else was er , er about placing plugs as well er , if one 's only going to have two plugs well then least one should be able to place them in , in the right positions , er putting them behind doors is , is , is no good at all , a lot of them have been done that way because the it always means flex is going to be draped across the , the door if people are walking in gon na trip over it and erm , they probably got down to now , something er just less than the standard I would think in the , in the last houses they built . |
| 17 | Secord and Hakim told Secord 's lawyer that they thought they were doing ‘ the Lord 's work ’ . |
| 18 | And then they could n't sing a ballad in the key that they recorded it because of some studio trick ! |
| 19 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 20 | It 's not B T , it used to be B T , erm until about 1984 , when we decided that the maintenance that they gave us was n't good enough , and got Plessey in . |
| 21 | However , members wanted to recognise his outstanding contribution to the club so they elected him president . |
| 22 | Dean 's parents spoke out angrily in the Mirror yesterday , after we had revealed the existence of the bug that they knew nothing about . |
| 23 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 24 | and went to Nursery Nurses ' Association and they suggested I took charge of an evacuee centre for children . |
| 25 | I could read ‘ Nike ’ quite clearly on his trainers until they disappeared one after the other into the Shogun . |
| 26 | And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto |
| 27 | Only a few women were on equal terms with their husbands and they recognised their relationships as exceptional . |
| 28 | Notts have a terrific record at home under Mick Walker and they kept it going . |
| 29 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 30 | The opposition reacted angrily to the intervention by French and Belgian troops , calling for their withdrawal and warning of more violence if they did anything more than evacuate their nationals . |