Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [pron] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she put away the cutlery and was so sorry for herself , she found it made things easier if she dramatised them . |
| 2 | Butchers are , on the whole , an ingenious breed , and they could probably get hold of some if you pressed them . |
| 3 | His lectures were above all popular because he packed them with information . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | No , it just look different when you took them off |
| 7 | So I was wrong when I thought they were fantastically healthy and a good advert for the Jungle . |
| 8 | But they were afraid when he faced them . |
| 9 | He had to keep his arms free as he needed them to keep the snake from suffocating him . |
| 10 | We both talk of love but those two were smarter than we took them for . |
| 11 | I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to . |
| 12 | So you see I could n't fight with them too much cos I thought they 'd take it out on dad , so I said look I do n't want him here , I do n't need all this but I said another thing that got my goat , you asked my mum to help turn my dad , they asked my mum if she could help turn him because they did n't have enough staff or he could n't be turned and when my mum turned him she come out and was sick and cried her eyes out cos he had no skin from the top of his spine to the bottom , and he had a water blister like that Joy yellow on his arm , his penis was nearly the width of my arm pouring with blood , and septic from the catheter , oh and the smell , you 've never smelled nothing like it from the sores and the wounds , cos he was cut from here right the way down to here and they had a , all his legs were festering and gangrene in his legs |
| 13 | One partner , who suffered repeated phone calls from Channel 7 until he cut them off , said : ‘ People who signed up must be lacking in street wisdom . ’ |
| 14 | The smells of autumn , of compost and rot , still faintly lingered into the winter thaw , only the pines and firs remaining fragrant if one brushed them . |
| 15 | ‘ As I work with the prints all day I would get so bored if I wore them as well , ’ she once told an American interviewer , who expressed surprise to find her in such plain clothes . |
| 16 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 17 | We were using it for drunk driving offenders and repeat traffic offenders , not so much because I felt they were the only people who were appropriate for it , but because we wanted to make sure we started with a group who were not likely to get into major trouble should the project not work out . |
| 18 | These confessions were withdrawn by the accused because they claimed they were extracted from them under duress , including beatings . |
| 19 | Both Jessica and Nadea seemed to agree that it was fitting and appropriate when I told them my first choice would be to serve with the Royal Canadian Air Force . |
| 20 | They should be able to hold prices and they certainly should n't got up by as much as they thought they might have to put them up . |
| 21 | Since he was the majority shareholder , this would have meant his family getting hold of the business — and much as we liked them , this was n't a prospect we exactly relished . |
| 22 | Secondly , he was disturbed by the fact that spiritual truths did n't stir his emotions or grip his imagination as much as he felt they should . |
| 23 | That way people could stare at him as much as they wanted to and as much as he wanted them to ; then at the crucial moment he would lift his face and turn those famous eyes on his chosen suitor for the evening . |
| 24 | But his questions were at once crucifying me as much as I knew they were of help . |
| 25 | Maybe she felt that if she could n't do it now , she would never do it ; maybe that was why her face hardened as she watched them , still apart , and imagined them , together . |
| 26 | I hope she did n't find it as easy as she told them , if you shut them up in their room . |
| 27 | Our doctors were delighted for they knew they would soon need expert surgical help , but secretly they enjoyed showing the ‘ greats ’ who had little rooms adjoining each other on that top floor , the good work that had been done in ‘ the acute exanthemata . ’ |
| 28 | At Oxford I discovered that most people were only too willing to be friendly if I gave them a chance . |
| 29 | I said he had various slightly eccentric habits and tastes , but that if you ignored them you quickly got through to the real Oliver . |
| 30 | It would be much simpler if you obeyed them . ’ |