Example sentences of "they [vb past] or [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Resigning herself to the inevitable , she walked quietly alongside him as he kept up a running commentary on all they passed or saw . |
| 5 | Confusion peaked with the arrival of the rescue teams but they led or carried the survivors to the relative peace of the sick-bay . |
| 6 | What a coup for the bastards , if they kidnapped or murdered the wife of a Cabinet Minister . |
| 7 | They would admit nothing ; they sat there like stones , and their one aim was to sit there like stones , so that no one could tell if they cared or did not care , so that there should be no difference between caring and not caring . |
| 8 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded whether they avoided or pecked at them . |
| 9 | They stripped these books down to their narrative skeletons , then scattered a string of incidents on to the screen without caring whether they moved or excited the audience . |
| 10 | Gunfire was directed even at them and they fled or fell to the ground . |
| 11 | As homework we asked the women to keep a diary and initially to record everything they ate or drank over one week . |
| 12 | Only when they dropped or rattled something , the startled way they would look towards Moran , did the nervous tension of what it took to glide about so silently show . |
| 13 | Source C describes how they bravely took over the dangerous jobs in munitions factories , and how they joined or worked alongside the armed services , either joining women 's armed services , or working as nurses out on the battlefront . |
| 14 | Between 1986 and 1991 American states appear to have shut four landfills for every one they opened or expanded . |
| 15 | For almost a third of the clients for whom the development officers provided a service they obtained or increased cover from other services . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't like you , either , ’ he admitted , and they both knew that liking had nothing to do with the seething emotions aroused every time they touched or came close . |
| 17 | While each family possessed a few reindeer for harnessing to sledges , they had no herds , and depended entirely upon hunting wild deer , which they followed or waylaid on their seasonal migrations . |
| 18 | The Danakil invariably castrated any man or boy whom they killed or wounded , removing both the penis and the scrotum . |
| 19 | They grinned or bawled , prefiguring the fixed expressions of their adult lives , solid features emerging from rolls of fat to express the hideous fixity of adult character . |
| 20 | Some people had copies of public documents ( such as the agreement by the shaikhs of 1946 ) which they inherited or had copied for their own use and enjoyment . |
| 21 | Some of them had brought their wooden spindles and , from time to time , they abstractedly twisted them , spinning coils of fluffy wool into a smooth yarn as they talked or listened . |
| 22 | The practical effects of this regulation were to cause many students to register for 12 modules but participate seriously in only 10 ; to cause them to stack their choices , so that modules which they needed or intended to pass were taken in terms 1 and 2 , and to bias apparent but not real demand towards term 3 . |
| 23 | Under these circumstances potential consumers will simply shrug their shoulders , walk away and do without goods they needed or wanted and for which they were ready to pay . |
| 24 | All sample members were to be followed up by the research team ( unless , of course , they died or moved away ) for a period of one year from the date of their referral to the project . |
| 25 | The new law of prohibition of alcohol afforded them marvellous matter for the pleading of the liberty of men and women against the tyranny of majorities , and they sang or preached several eloquent perorations in praise of freedom . |
| 26 | Massive chunks of history are missing and it is really not possible to understand the Abstract Expressionists without reference to how they incorporated or reacted against those earlier tendencies . |
| 27 | But if they disobeyed or tried to escape they would be shot out of hand . |
| 28 | Accordingly , the insiders were under an obligation , inter alia , to disclose material matters about which they knew or had reason to believe the relevant shareholders had insufficient knowledge . |
| 29 | Customers were asked to fill in a brief form stating whether they knew or had seen Mr McEvoy . |
| 30 | They were n't like other infantry , drilled to stand in line and fight until they fell or fled , but skirmishers , men of judgment and initiative , who had to decide for themselves when to fire , advance , retreat , surrender , or die . |