Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb past] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , having made an investment they expected it to pay its way and any development towards being a full-time farmer would depend very much on market prices . |
| 2 | After an inept start , Rangers battled belligerently to achieve the result they sought which keeps them abreast of Marseille , who defeated Club Brugge 3-0 in France . |
| 3 | To their disgust they found themselves required to stand in line with the Europeans . |
| 4 | So they pulled in ahead of the taxi rank in the underpass , and the one next to Joe leaned across him and opened the door , and almost in unison they told him to bugger off home . |
| 5 | Oh yes , yes , but you just asked what benefit they thought they brought to the village . |
| 6 | He should have read the writing on the machine they gave him to spin the golden thread . |
| 7 | Despite her criticism of their dancing they knew she cared for them and always stepped in in any family crisis : |
| 8 | On their return they discovered he had not only done as instructed but painted the trees which lined the drive as well . |
| 9 | All of a sudden they realised they had been tricked from the very beginning . |
| 10 | Dorothy had an inspiration as to who they could go as , and for the rest of the evening they amused themselves digging through an old encyclopedia to find pictures from which to copy costumes . |
| 11 | They use so much petrol on a taxi business they got she 's got about a dozen still I think . |
| 12 | Well they , they just you know they they just have this erm craft sort of , they do stall and and they make stuff for the shop they had he had a couple of retail shops , he had a factory yeah I think he said he had fifty two people working for him . |
| 13 | In the 20th minute they thought they had equalised , but Sergueev was clearly off-side when Eugeni Douchmanov 's shot struck his body , and flew beyond Goram . |
| 14 | ‘ The devil they did they broke about every — ’ |
| 15 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 16 | As they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 17 | But I think it was built maybe in er in the er nineteen eighty or early eight maybe nineteen ninety five or thereabout but it took a while while they got it erected . |
| 18 | And they shouted at in a while they saw it coming up again , they give another warning . |
| 19 | Debbie has been referred to a Young Disabled Unit and a psychiatric unit ( ‘ On the second day they found her playing cards in the alcoholics ’ ward ’ ) . |
| 20 | How much enlightenment they obtained I do not know , but the details about ‘ exploring hands ’ were , in those days in contrast to the present , unusual . |
| 21 | Outside the platform and er as I said before , it was like , they only had small trains you know , five coaches was the biggest train they had you know . |
| 22 | But at half-past seven the next morning they knew they had made the right decision . |
| 23 | The next morning they found him perched in a tree . |
| 24 | Yet when I was having my baby they made me feel as though I should n't be having it . |
| 25 | When the men of the World Council of Churches in Geneva heard Arthur was at Caux they phoned him to come and tell them the truth about Rhodesia . |
| 26 | This afternoon they announced they intend to adjourn tomorrow night 's AGM . |
| 27 | She 'd had to buy all her guides Coca Cola from guiding funds , and send them home early in a hired bus in case they electrocuted themselves storming the gates of Eldercombe Manor in search of Dancer . |
| 28 | And they put on every consultant through out training course they got I think we 've made I think we 've got sixty five . |
| 29 | But on the course they told us to keep our options open . |
| 30 | In 1923 , when the Liberals found themselves in much the same situation as Mr Ashdown is hoping for today , Asquith told them that they ‘ were not sent here by your constituents to play the part of soldiers of fortune ’ , but that was exactly the part they found themselves playing then , and will find themselves playing now if we get a hung Parliament , and they will be unsuccessful mercenaries at that . |