Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Pouncey is at present editing his diaries , drawing attention to entries such as one for October 1949 , when , between 7.17 am and 12.25 pm he visited no less than twelve Roman churches , certainly with the intense concentration he devoted to each of the many visits they made to Italy together . |
| 2 | The equipment they had at Rhodes hardly justified the risks in getting ashore to use it , but the Commander had improved the original ideas and over the next two years a comprehensive yet simple range of tools would be devised for this survey work . |
| 3 | This week they went on sale again , at the ludicrous price of 92p for a 608-gramme punnet , or about 70p a pound . |
| 4 | Once here , the racism they faced in employment often forced them to turn to starting their own business as a means of livelihood . |
| 5 | The reason they went into Court though was that erm |
| 6 | It 's my guess they went to ground somewhere in that area . ’ |
| 7 | And my mother came from the farm along the shore and they were in the same position they worked with boats too . |
| 8 | County 's heroes were their midfielders , Mick Matthews and Andy Thorpe ; faced with the glitter of Nigel Spackman and Peter Reid they challenged for control throughout . |