Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the cab had departed he 'd returned to the body search ; a couple of rough-looking kids came sneaking up the alley for purposes unknown , but a long , low growl from the shadows sent them running . |
| 2 | Tony it was who persuaded the village people to take advantage of the benefits offered them — meals cooked on washing-day , for instance , and the simple lessons in pianoforte and painting that Susan and Breeze had suggested giving . |
| 3 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
| 4 | Often the height and fast bipedalism of the carnosaurs enabled them to tower over the extremely well-protected horned ceratopsians , and simply seize them from above with a powerfully armed mouth . |
| 5 | Parents of the children said they had made ‘ remarkable progress ’ through Budapest 's conductive education programmes . |
| 6 | Identification with the masses brought them the people 's problems — tuberculosis , malnutrition , diarrhoea and dehydration . |
| 7 | A lucky win against Aurillac in the play-offs secured them a place among the last 32 . |
| 8 | But the polish on the sockets made them look like new . |
| 9 | A quarter of the boys said they would be prepared to talk to a teacher about sex as opposed to only one in 10 girls . |
| 10 | She knew that the conditions in the camps meant they would die if they were not treated properly , which meant coming to Stoke Mandeville hospital in Buckinghamshire . |
| 11 | Most of the delegations taking part in the talks said they wanted to press ahead regardless , subject to a special debate on the arrests . |
| 12 | Her direct challenge to the authority of the professionals forced them to acknowledge an alternative conceptualisation of Tom 's needs which carried with it quite different implications for the outcome of the formal assessment of those needs . |
| 13 | The birthright of the Shepherds made them immune from the laws that governed others . |
| 14 | Some of the African students taken into custody by the police claimed they had been beaten up . |
| 15 | This addition to the maps made them more useful , especially for agricultural purposes , but it entailed resurveying ground already covered and slowed the progress of subsequent work . |
| 16 | So far , October 's 17-hour marathon has raised about £1,200 , but a spokesman for the organisers said they were still in the region of £2,000–3,000 short of the expected figure . |
| 17 | Their preoccupation with the military significance of the manyattas kept them , however , from consciously appreciating the extent to which it was there that the Masai received the training responsible for those characteristics which ‘ we , the British , deeply applaud . |
| 18 | Some of the men who took part in this , like Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother-in-law Sir Humphrey Gilbert , were also attracted by the idea of getting lands on the other side of the Atlantic , and the success of the Spaniards encouraged them in the widespread belief that an immense amount of gold and silver was waiting to be discovered all over the Americas . |
| 19 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 20 | Some of these strings could be ruled out because the linking information between the letters contradicted them . |
| 21 | The end of the wars drove them back to the British Isles , and some of them turned to fight for land in Ireland . |
| 22 | The conduct of the foresters made them a by-word for oppression and extortion . |
| 23 | Overall , 69% of the respondents said they were ‘ satisfied ’ with the tariffs , while 22% said they were unhappy . |
| 24 | Some swelled bloatedly , streaked with red , as power from the deeps infused them . |