Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women who told me that their partners accused them of using tears to manipulate them agreed that there were times when they deliberately wept , but said that it was often the only way they could get their partner 's attention . |
| 2 | One of them asked as we got to the landing . |
| 3 | A waiter came up and after one close look at them asked if they were waiting for Count Felipe de Santis . |
| 4 | One of them asked if I would like some beetroot . |
| 5 | Both of them realised that he had abandoned all pretence that Sally-Anne was an ordinary young woman come to work in Vetch Street , but neither of them pursued the matter , Dr Neil from delicacy , and Sally-Anne because she could not tell him the real truth about herself — he would undoubtedly immediately send her back to the embassy , and she did not want that at all — it would be failure . |
| 6 | of them revealed that they had been the victims of marital rape . |
| 7 | When I first met the car manufacturers , they did not appear to be taking the matter very seriously at all , but my last meeting with them revealed that they are now much more prepared to make their cars more secure . |
| 8 | A chilly breeze was moving and several of them trembled where they sat . |
| 9 | These Awards are intended to encourage schools and local agencies to work together in involving young people in sport , and keeping them involved when they leave school . |
| 10 | All right , there had been two of them involved and it was unfair , but he would be feeling tricked … and trapped . |
| 11 | He bought a quantity believing they were Ecstasy , but when he tried them found that they were another drug altogether . |
| 12 | None of them doubted that they would eventually get to Greece . |
| 13 | ‘ You bastard , ’ one of them shouted as he raced after it . |
| 14 | The turning point for them came when their car broke down after a family christening . |
| 15 | Well that was where the the Where Argyll and them came and they burnt it down . |
| 16 | Some of them added that they thought the TBC paid too little attention to the speeches of politicians : this was to be a frequent complaint . |
| 17 | Many of them believed that they were failing to find jobs because they were too old and a large number of the older respondents had become reconciled to the prospect of never working again . |
| 18 | Some of them believed that it would be brought about by an ideal representative of God , an anointed one , a Messiah ( see chapter 8 ) . |
| 19 | of them believed that recession would get worse under a Labour Government , and not one of them believed that it would get better . |
| 20 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 21 | All three of them ducked but there was no burst of fire from the ice-bound hills . |
| 22 | If there were rumours concerning herself and the new medical officer she wanted them quashed before they had a chance to spread . |
| 23 | Initially , about 150 young bloods expressed an interest and took part in rehearsals in the home counties but most of them withdrew when they realised the costs of hiring armour and equipment , of having gowns and costumes made for their ladies and attendants , and of transporting their retinues to Scotland . |
| 24 | For a moment Ben could n't understand what was going on , then one of them turned and he saw it was the captain , a man called Rosten . |
| 25 | The private detective following them cursed when they stopped and kissed in the middle of the street . |
| 26 | ‘ Some of them figured that I played Headless Horseman on bass — y'know … the weirdest concepts ! |
| 27 | Er and I do n't think any other most of them started and they 're still here some of them . |
| 28 | Most of them broke when I peeled the real leaf off the chocolate which I 'd painted on — not quite up to Mum 's standards of patience and perfection , but who ever saw lots of perfect leaves ( not on a tree ) anyway . |
| 29 | A group of Puritans who felt that the Church of England was too close to the Roman Catholic Church had left England and gone to the Netherlands ; they noticed with regret that their children were becoming Dutch in speech and habits , and some of them decided that their best prospect of remaining both godly and English was to get in touch with the Plymouth merchants , obtain from them financial support and the legal right to found a colony , and go somewhere in America where English bishops would not interfere with them . |
| 30 | In fact some of them swore that they saw a phantom train roaring into or out of Box Hill Tunnel ; of course the sceptics laughed their heads off at such a far-fetched tale but the more psychic were inclined to accept the men 's story . |