Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] they [vb past] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any extra help they received was through the dedication of any class teacher who had enough energy left over from dealing with the demands of the class as a whole . |
| 2 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 3 | The previous day they had been on the green 5¼ hours to out-bowl Paddington . |
| 4 | So many places they had been to , so many people … |
| 5 | The magnates ruled the localities by the end of the thirteenth century as political bosses , rather than as the petty princes they had been in the twelfth century . |
| 6 | The first play they mounted was for Alan and his family — to celebrate the completion of the pageant . |
| 7 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 8 | The foreman , Ricky Hill , said afterwards that the only problem they had was in deciding exactly when Mr Bakker began the pattern of fraud . |
| 9 | We must remember , too , that Dissenters in the 18th century were not the political revolutionaries they had been in the 17th — there was a sense in which the rabid Nonconformity of one generation became the established respectability of the next , and commentators like Halevy have suggested that it was precisely the innate conservatism of the new dissent , Methodism , which helped stave off revolution in England in the early 19th century — a real opium of the people , in effect . |
| 10 | The last thing they wanted was for the Americans to know they were about to learn their secrets . |
| 11 | They 'd never been to Blackpool , last year they 'd been to Spain |
| 12 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 13 | The storm was just triggering memories of the last time they had been in a storm together . |