Example sentences of "they [vb past] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They channelled rainwater away from the guttering through open-mouthed figures , which occasionally contained a short section of pipe . |
| 2 | They emptied boxful after boxful on the counter , in front of the small boy — lions , bears , devils , witches ( pale green with hair made from real straw ) . |
| 3 | But what the Romans really needed from the Greeks was the description and interpretation of a foreign land as a whole ; they lacked orientation in ethnography . |
| 4 | They lacked adventure and their first corner came in the 75th minute . |
| 5 | Not as well , either , if last week 's evidence is to be believed — they lacked pace and invention , though had an abundance of straight runners with the habitual powerful frames , so Scotland will be stretched . |
| 6 | Related to this was a feeling amongst students that they lacked independence . |
| 7 | The group found that many such courses existed , but that they lacked co-ordination . |
| 8 | That some of the articles were ill-argued , that they lacked style , or that they attributed to schools and teachers almost every ill that mankind was heir to , went unnoticed in the popular press ( which reported , usually without reservation , the ‘ findings ’ of each Black Paper ) . |
| 9 | But they lacked conviction , because she could not believe in a God who answered prayers . |
| 10 | Police were unable to make an arrest because they lacked evidence . |
| 11 | ( They lacked track brakes . ) |
| 12 | In the years before the oil crisis dismissals were frequently justified by arguing that individuals did not merit tenure because they lacked commitment or because of their poor educational qualifications . |
| 13 | One said that a lot of people did n't understand what Making Belfast Work was all about because they lacked information on it . |
| 14 | Widnes , without eight squad members , had the territory and the possession to have won the game but , after five successive defeats , they lacked confidence and penetration . |
| 15 | They lacked confidence in their own values . |
| 16 | The government views the colleges as being too expensive and unsuited to the task ( e.g. they lacked quality control ) . |
| 17 | The Russians continued to enjoy plenty of possession — but they lacked penetration . |
| 18 | However , Leese quarrelled with the ‘ BF 's ’ , as he called them , because he thought they lacked dynamism and credibility . |
| 19 | They lowered blood pressure in patients with hypertension , prevented irregularities of the heartbeat which might be caused by adrenaline , reduced mortality after coronary thrombosis , and , perhaps most importantly of all , they revealed the complexity of the factors which control cardiac activity in man , and the difficulties of predicting the effects drugs will have without first carrying out extensive and detailed experiments , both in the laboratory and in the clinic . |
| 20 | But that was generally the practice of settled people : Zuwaya were scattered over a vast territory , and although they owned land they were not permanently resident on it . |
| 21 | Private investors would only be in an equally good position as institutions if they owned Topic screens and could get through on the phone to their broker as quickly as the big fund manager . |
| 22 | They met head on with elements of that teenage army that had also emerged from 1956 . |
| 23 | Here they met Zora-djevojka , the Dawn Maiden , the Sun 's beloved daughter . |
| 24 | The four main zaibatsu were more than able to supply the financial needs of the two main political parties , but in return they expected state support to continue . |
| 25 | In common with most readers they expected poetry to deal with elegant , or at any rate , elevated topics ; they also believed that there was a special language for poetry which was quite different from the language of prose — and certainly far removed from that of daily conversation . |
| 26 | Now they expected information from him . |
| 27 | Ministers said last night they expected market pressures would force Ford to scrap their price rises within a few months , or they could be forced to discount their prices very heavily . |
| 28 | If they , they got they got piecework or they got th th the , they get either piecework or they get so much for the job so much , an hourly rate for the job . |
| 29 | The faster aircraft could make it across without landing , and when they got permission to fly at 10,000 feet , they left . |
| 30 | yeah but they take it , they , they got documentary have n't be able to get anybody died being shot they got people being brought back wounded and stuff , but erm , basically the there were I R A gunmen there erm at least three was spotted , say in a crowd that size how many more went unspotted |