Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [conj] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 1 November , the Germans again attacked the salient 's belly , but this time at night , a ruse that enabled them to capture the Messines Ridge . |
| 2 | Sister Duggan had Eileen , s few belongings in a case and handed them to Liam . |
| 3 | THE flight from Berlin to Cap de la Hague took just over three hours , Asa charting a course that took them over parts of occupied Holland , Belgium and then France . |
| 4 | She wrapped them up in a parcel and took them out to the dustbin . |
| 5 | If conservatives could hold the line , they stood a chance of enacting a settlement that suited them . |
| 6 | I wish him and his friends no evil , ’ said Bishop Jon , shaking down his book-satchel and peering into it , ‘ but it 's a difficult thing to make plans for your country with them sitting there , their heads switching from this shoulder to the other , and so sleek you would think it was a cow that licked them all . |
| 7 | ‘ We made a noise and ignored them . |
| 8 | I once took all eleven of my Dad 's angelfish to school in a jam-jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . |
| 9 | PC margins have grown so slim that no one was incorporating them into PCs for multi media applications as there were no applications that could provide value to a user that bought them . |
| 10 | The sudden jerky movement rocked the boat , creating a wave that knocked them both off balance . |
| 11 | Then everything was movement , sensation , and she could no longer laugh or speak or do anything but be carried along by a force greater than anything she had ever known before , a force that took them to the heavens to touch the stars that had already decided their destiny . |
| 12 | From the opening , during the cold New York winter of 1967 , the queues extending round the block outside Manhattan cinemas consisted mostly of young people hugging themselves and each other , and stamping their feet to keep warm , full of the expectation of seeing a movie that addressed them and their problems . |
| 13 | She made a chicken salad and poured herself a glass of chilled white wine , then put them on a tray and took them into her sitting room . |
| 14 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 15 | A man called Rodrigo Paestra has discovered his nineteen-year-old wife with a lover and shot them both . |
| 16 | Despite the vast edifice that they built up on extremely shaky premises the phrenologists were socially-committed men , with an interest in holistic medicine and a shrewdness that served them well when they ran their fingers over somebody 's skull in pursuit of character . |
| 17 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 18 | I scooped them up before he could think of asking for a receipt and zippered them into a jacket pocket . |
| 19 | Only through Cunhaval was she aware of life in the forest and it was not a life-form that encouraged them to slow down and set a trap . |
| 20 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 21 | But he won in the end … a brilliant save from the kick kept Southend out … gave Swindon a point and took them back upto fourth in the first division |
| 22 | But he won in the end … a brilliant save from the kick kept Southend out … gave Swindon a point and took them back upto fourth in the first division |
| 23 | They both agreed that if you could n't enjoy yourself on the way , what was the point in running a business that afforded them so much freedom to travel ? |
| 24 | So they had a meeting and decided they would put a big net over the entrance to the valley so that it would never be able to get in again . |
| 25 | Since the Kaszubes lacked any political organisation or ambition and had no recognition for their language , hardly any literature of their own and barely any sense of a common Kaszubian identity , the Poles thought of the Kaszubians as a joke and paid them little heed . |
| 26 | What if the rain increased and they were trapped underground by a flood that washed them away down one of those awful little squeezes ? |
| 27 | The tide had n't covered the pebbles yet , so I took up a handful and lobbed them at the bottle . |
| 28 | Eileen 's commanding officer took them to a room and gave them tea , and tried to explain to them that it was better for her to remain . |
| 29 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 30 | Moira Billington , prosecuting , said the brothers had advertised cars in a newspaper and sold them from their home . |