Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] they [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made it clear that they saw it as the core of a European army . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But those areas were taken out of the project when it became clear that they merited their own separate treatment . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The colonel explained that the reason for the exclusion zone would become clear once they saw what had been found in the excavation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Those remaining faced disease and starvation and the prospect of continuing civil war because the Russians left Afghanistan more unstable than they found it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Prior to 1979 , most local authorities were Conservative-controlled and they considered themselves to be local authorities , not Governments . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ They were n't interested because they realised what they would be expected to do , ’ says Jim Devine . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | He asked for and received the resignations of his Cabinet ; it was not clear whether they included his own . |
| 14 | PLAYER : We never really got going — it was getting quite interesting when they stopped it . |
| 15 | It all went wrong when they discovered something up a gum-tree in Malaysia and called it gutta-percha . |
| 16 | It was light when they reached their destination , a small house some miles outside Stockholm , but his condition was hardly any better . |
| 17 | They were old when they had her . ’ |
| 18 | The Cove , as he had hoped and expected , was quite deserted when they reached it . |
| 19 | It was also possible that they saw his state of mind as a potential liability , particularly if he got desperate and tried to escape again . |
| 20 | ‘ It was so strong that they hit my March 1994 revenue estimate . ’ |
| 21 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 22 | They further assert that in the course of the pay-off Commissioner Zen 's identity was revealed and that the gang were so incensed that they assaulted him . |
| 23 | ‘ They also found that my kneecap was not quite straight so they moved it over . |
| 24 | As Johnson passed his urine and reflected on the result and his uncharacteristically quiet performance , he wearily joked , ‘ It would be typical if they found something . ’ |
| 25 | because , you come back here and all the Scottish women were vast and they lost their figure 's and it was just sort of almost taken for granted that you have a baby and you loose your figure , but you do n't mind because you 've got the children . |
| 26 | No , no , you were only honest because they made you be honest . |
| 27 | Conner 's crew were incensed because they thought they had made the perfect forcing manoeuvre . |
| 28 | These confessions were withdrawn by the accused because they claimed they were extracted from them under duress , including beatings . |
| 29 | ‘ When they said he was fine it put my mind at ease but I was so relieved when they said he had no problems after the birth . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Word had got round that I was wearing red , but I think the guests were relieved when they saw me , and realised my dress was n't too outrageous , ’ says Alison . |