Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 2 | On a trip to Dublin two of them asked and received permission to share a double room away from ‘ the children ’ . |
| 3 | She closed her eyes and arched blindly against him , let him guide her into another kind of darkness , where that unknown vortex of emotion , that powerful pull of attraction between them swirled and hypnotised , and this time the stars behind her eyelids were brilliant but softly incandescent , fireworks of intense delight , bursting in her head … |
| 4 | Those companies between them owned or managed 95 fishing vessels which were until 31 March 1989 registered as British fishing vessels under the Merchant Shipping Act 1894 ( 57 & 58 Vict. c. 60 ) . |
| 5 | None of them moved or looked at me . |
| 6 | Neither of them moved or spoke for several minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ It was awful , Guy , ’ she whispered , after a long time when neither of them moved or spoke . |
| 8 | When he had said these things they all replied that they prayed God to preserve him through long and happy years , and four of the most honourable among them rose and kissed his hands , and the Cid bade them take their seats again . |
| 9 | He woke late on the Sunday morning after their first week , sent Ingrid back to her Gasthaus , and wandered down to the coffee shop where several of them came and ate a late breakfast . |
| 10 | Instead of getting someone to calm me down and talk to me , a whole bunch of them came and jumped on me and rushed me down to the block and left me there . |
| 11 | One of them came and sat next to me . |
| 12 | ‘ One or two of them came and spoke to me afterwards . |
| 13 | On a slab and piled into a stone sink were torsos of human beings , one or two of them opened and filleted like pigs ' carcasses . |
| 14 | The three of them turned and looked at her . |
| 15 | Suddenly one of them turned and saw him . |
| 16 | The Rajputs who had been in the lead took the full force of the barrage ; the new conscripts behind them turned and fled . |
| 17 | Then they really went at it , hammer and tongs — so loudly , in fact , that neither of them heard or noticed Dad enter the room . |
| 18 | After a couple of minutes , one of them returned and placed a hand on Beattie 's shoulder and said that he was arresting him under Section 10 and Schedule 1 of the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act . |
| 19 | Jazz skewered up his hair with a few of Mrs Nicholson 's hairpins and the three of them shuffled and clacked respectively for home , grateful for the now emptier streets . |
| 20 | But it would all be worth it to see them settled and thriving in their new home . |
| 21 | Some of them broke and ran , while others began shooting into the group of zombie villagers . |
| 22 | But at the first sound of her voice even this changed woman became familiar to him , and the veil of estrangement between them broke and drifted like gossamer . |
| 23 | He could see the upturned hulls of a few boats drawn up onto the shore , mostly of fibreglass but some of varnished timber , all of them de-rigged and tied down against the weather . |
| 24 | I had not yet recovered from the simple shock of finding that many of them talked and behaved exactly like us . |
| 25 | At Ladbroke Grove a boy called Dean Miller , whom the rest of them knew and had teamed up with on the platform at Royal Oak , opened the door at the end of the car and climbed up on to the roof . |
| 26 | The Council , or what was left of it now , nodded wisely although frankly none of them understood or cared much about mechanical things . |
| 27 | I had no idea , really , what any of them thought or felt . |
| 28 | He got rid of oppositionists by proposing some impossible task , and when they failed or refused would move their expulsion , anyone who voted against automatically expelling themselves . |
| 29 | These wolf calls middle peasants because , although they were squatting illegally on the land , in practice they owned and worked their small plots . |
| 30 | Just for a second it seemed to Polly that they met and lingered on hers . |