Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They agreed that for the moment they would say nothing about it to Ebenezer . |
| 2 | ‘ However , in due course a few , a very few indeed , intelligent teachers came to take a cool look at what was happening and they realised that for the vast majority of children the majority of our educational processes add about as much to the mental stature of our children as a diet of sawdust would add to their physical stature … . , |
| 3 | They realised that with a car slowly sinking into the marsh there was not a minute to spare . |
| 4 | They moved as in a dance . |
| 5 | The colleges were requested , in conjunction with their local education authorities , to submit academic plans in broad programme areas for their advanced courses in 1984–5 and to specify the programme areas which they regarded as of the highest priority . |
| 6 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 7 | They found that with a 60 ( user ) concurrent workload Destiny on the Intel chip was 28% faster than a DEC 5900 and performed 87% as well as an RS/6000 970 running AIX . |
| 8 | They found that over the course of the year , two-thirds of the women interviewed reported experiences of sexual harassment , one-quarter of the women had experienced threats , and one-fifth , violence . |
| 9 | They found that from the age of three years , children were able to distinguish correctly between intended actions and mistakes ( Shultz , 1980 ) . |
| 10 | They found that in the hybrids the germ cells apparently migrated into the fetal gonads normally , and their early cell divisions proceeded normally . |
| 11 | They found that in the United states , Belgium , Thailand and Japan , the decline in the rate of sexual intercourse in marriage is more closely associated with the wife 's age than that of the husband . |
| 12 | The french windows of the living-room stood open while they ate and by the time they reached the coffee stage darkness had closed over the hills across the water . |
| 13 | However , in the short time they flourished , they had an enormous impact , not so much on the towns they joined but on the countryside through which they passed . |
| 14 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 15 | They claimed that despite the hundreds of years of Polish independence , ‘ the East ’ owed what little civilisation it could muster to the efforts of the Germans . |
| 16 | They showed that in the year to June reported crime was almost four per cent higher than in the previous twelve months . |
| 17 | They alleged that with a three-man board , the Deanses would be able to ride roughshod over anyone 's wishes but their own , to the prejudice of minority shareholders . |
| 18 | This project aims to identify the local leaders who were responsible for chapels , schoolrooms and manses in a period of nonconformist growth , to study their place in the religious bodies they served and in the communities where they lived . |
| 19 | Artistic , in the best sense , they fretted because of the inflated sense of importance developed by the many people of inferior talent around the industry . |
| 20 | Nevertheless he insisted that , at least until they were over Esk , they must all stay together ; they owed that to the Border men and indeed all who looked for a share in the spoil . |
| 21 | They decided that in the circumstances it would be foolish to bother about insurance . |
| 22 | They felt that with the Emperor 's death , their Christian God had deserted them , or had proven incomprehensibly capricious ; or more positively they felt that Allah suddenly was shown to be more powerful and |
| 23 | They felt that after the war the government should take powers to control the volume of investment , and the resources of the economy should be centrally assessed and allocated with the aim of reaching and staying at full employment . |
| 24 | ‘ They felt that in the appreciation I had somehow caught what she was about , this thing about how she loved to be in Cornwall and loved to wear her scruffy clothes and wellington boots . |
| 25 | But they knew that on the left lay the Waste ; and that somewhere west of the Waste , no one knew precisely where , was the Great Camp of the outlaws . |
| 26 | They knew that in every list of a hundred subscribers there were one or two with real money , and on them they descended in their raucous , black-gowned hordes . |
| 27 | While accepting that in the cities events would unfold much as Marx had envisaged , with a phase of bourgeois rule culminating in proletarian revolution , they insisted that in the countryside peasant revolution could achieve the immediate ‘ socialization ’ of the land and abolition of private ownership in preparation for the ultimate transition to socialist production . |
| 28 | They listened as from the cellar below came the strains of a deep male voice singing a sentimental ballad . |
| 29 | Lydia was also faintly disgusted by tears , by the weakness they evinced and by the viscosity of their substance . |
| 30 | When my sons went to the village school there was respect and they knew that they could not ‘ nannick ’ about in school , even if they did while on the way there . |