Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Is n't that where they found his clothes ? |
| 2 | It was probably not long after this that they made their peace with the Yorkists and entered Gloucester 's service . |
| 3 | It was probably not long after this that they made their peace with the Yorkists and entered Gloucester 's service . |
| 4 | And to cap it all , it had to be on a case as weird as this that they sent him a Substitute Prosecutor who watched his performance with amused detachment . |
| 5 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 6 | Essentially , it was a calculative attitude and it was clear that they managed themselves in the sense that they saw work as being a means to their personal ends , which might be owning a boarding house , for example . |
| 7 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 8 | But in fact they were so ill prepared that they lost their naval base of Minorca and seemed unable to organize any effective counter-measures . |
| 9 | The colonel explained that the reason for the exclusion zone would become clear once they saw what had been found in the excavation . |
| 10 | They did n't know what to say to this so they said nothing and he stood there , grinning and rubbing his hands together . |
| 11 | How persuasive the propaganda was is clear from the Latin war poems which even monks were then composing : some of these items were so popular that they found their way into school books for reading and glossing . |
| 12 | Those remaining faced disease and starvation and the prospect of continuing civil war because the Russians left Afghanistan more unstable than they found it . |
| 13 | I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer . |
| 14 | Some of the characters that people produce from this and they did them like Parkinson did , a Rolling Stone ball J , but outlined in drop shadow . |
| 15 | But the UK had never had a product like this and they needed it , ’ says John Bartic , visiting professor at Strathclyde University and joint chief executive of Bartle Bogle Hegarty ( BBH ) , the agency appointed to handle the launch and subsequent roll-out . |
| 16 | This total would be cut by half if they transferred their educational budgets to central government . |
| 17 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 18 | Prior to 1979 , most local authorities were Conservative-controlled and they considered themselves to be local authorities , not Governments . |
| 19 | His parents — his father was a clerk at the docks and his mother a schoolmistress — were never rich but they were very literate and they encouraged their son to read , observe and learn . |
| 20 | I went to see them about this but they told me it was up to the social security people to make up the difference . |
| 21 | Many of these people were able to escape before the town was overwhelmed , but about 2,000 died ; some because they elected to remain in what they thought was the safety of their houses , some because they left their escape until it was too late , some because they were too burdened down with prized possessions to move quickly enough , and some because they were just plain unlucky . |
| 22 | The elements of the curriculum considered essential by LEAs were varied and some were reluctant to make any statement on this because they felt it the job of schools . |
| 23 | Some of the crew were against this because they thought they 'd get their watches stolen ( I ask you ) and some in favour so that they could get a closer look at the women ( I ask you ) . |
| 24 | ‘ They were n't interested because they realised what they would be expected to do , ’ says Jim Devine . |
| 25 | I was up till three o'clock in the morning , very often , getting these prepared because they wanted them as quickly as possible , you know and er er it was the same when I , I do n't know when |
| 26 | He asked for and received the resignations of his Cabinet ; it was not clear whether they included his own . |
| 27 | Not now you 'ave n't … even if you 'ad some before they dumped you in the Mersey , which I suppose you did 'ave … at some time or other like … . ’ |
| 28 | PLAYER : We never really got going — it was getting quite interesting when they stopped it . |
| 29 | It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha . |
| 30 | Morgan and Georg Siemens did this when they established their banking ventures . |