Example sentences of "they [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | These wolf calls middle peasants because , although they were squatting illegally on the land , in practice they owned and worked their small plots . |
| 3 | Just for a second it seemed to Polly that they met and lingered on hers . |
| 4 | According to early ethological studies , it seemed that the young of certain birds like ducks and chickens would follow the first moving object they met and form a lasting attachment to it ; also that this attachment could take place only within a sharply limited period early on in development , and that it would affect all subsequent relationships . |
| 5 | She did n't really know what it was about him which made her go pale whenever they met and kept her awake at night longing . |
| 6 | ( 27 March 1770 ) Then in Florence they met and befriended a young violinist , Thomas Linley ( 1756–1778 ) ( PLATE III ) |
| 7 | Harris allegedly became besotted shortly after they met and told friends he could not live without her . |
| 8 | But Derek , 33 , was quietly confident when they met and vowed : ‘ I 'm determined to give them a run for their money . ’ |
| 9 | The friends of Montrose who supported the various candidates were very troublesome , for political management required careful and friendly replies , and it was clear that they could not all be given the answers they expected or hoped to receive . |
| 10 | And the soldiers muttered to one another as they limped and splashed back towards England that the black friars had not only sent the terror , but withdrawn it from them as soon as they turned back , and the devil their master could call it up again in an instant if they so much as looked over their shoulders . |
| 11 | In the early years they manufactured and supplied both hand and machine knitting yarns in natural fibres , principally wool and mohair . |
| 12 | United 's best chances came in the first half , but Barnsley gave as good as they got and went close once or twice . |
| 13 | The gang , in effect , agreed to hand over to the mining company all of the ore they got and accept a certain proportion of its value . |
| 14 | They grazed and possessed her mouth as if he was utterly certain of her response to him , and his certainty was fell founded . |
| 15 | There was silence , filled only by the glare of expression , the tension that sparked between them , just as it always had , always would as long as they lived and breathed . |
| 16 | In 1702 a Miss Chapman , the last in this Chapman line and heiress to Widcombe , married Philip Bennet , and they lived and died at his family home of Maperton , near Wincanton . |
| 17 | ‘ They lived and died . |
| 18 | This responsibility might or might not involve wage labour , marriage and unpaid domestic work , although there was always some of it whatever situation they lived and worked in . |
| 19 | How could she presume to argue with them when she knew nothing — nothing — and they lived and worked in situations like this ? |
| 20 | That eerie keening , like the cry of a great predator , was used by shepherds to communicate across the vast wind-swept spaces in which they lived and worked . |
| 21 | Close bonds developed between the crew members as they lived and worked together on the 67-foot steel vessel for 24 hours a day , sometimes in life-threatening situations . |
| 22 | Not that the early wandering people needed any formal system of feng shui , because , as they lived and moved under the direct influence of the earth 's subtle energies , its principles were naturally integrated in their lives . |
| 23 | And the people [ of Hellas ] came out of their doors and felt the spiritual stir in the air lightly move the soft hair across the forehead and cool the ray of [ divine ] light , and gladly they loosened their robes to take it to their breast : they breathed more sweetly , touched more fondly the light , clear , caressing sea in which they lived and moved . " |
| 24 | In the seat in front two passengers recognized the farm where they lived and wanted me to see it too . |
| 25 | Average scores for each nurse and resident were calculated for both collaboration and satisfaction , and their perceptions of alternative decision choices were assessed by asking them how much they agreed or disagreed that there was no alternative choice in the case of each specific patient . |
| 26 | They agreed and set the following Monday , 27 February , as the test date . |
| 27 | Anyway , indisputably well-connected and a ‘ toff ’ and after an initial spat ( very common with Burton , the initial spat with those who later became good pals ) , they became and remained fast friends . |
| 28 | As a result of all this they realised that to complete the measurements on the range of electrodes and to see how they depend on the other experimental conditions would take nearly three years . |
| 29 | They made and missed 3 or 4 cracking chances . |
| 30 | The footwear they chose as they tramped and danced their way towards the end of the decade was improbable-looking to say the least . |