Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , belatedly , they tried to take them by force , an exercise in which they failed despite the loss of tens of thousands of irreplaceable soldiers . |
| 2 | One prime minister was assassinated by the Brothers ; they failed in an attempt on Nasser himself . |
| 3 | The pastel-coloured costumes were at once demure and provocative ; fitted tight from throat to hip , they clung to every line of the delicate , high-breasted figures , heightening the allure of slender shoulders , tiny waists and the swell of young Ranks ; below the waist , however , the gossamer-light , side-split skirts and billowing trousers of white silk shrouded legs and thighs in secrecy , and to Chuck and Joseph the exotic girls of Saigon seemed not to walk but to float gently beneath the tamarinds on the evening breeze . |
| 4 | At one point tears rolled from his eyes ; they crept down the side of his face , and into his ears ; he continued to lie rigid . |
| 5 | They crept onto the bridge without meeting the expected sentry . |
| 6 | Cramlington illustrates real issues , in particular the extensive development gains made by the private developers on land they owned at the beginning of the whole process . |
| 7 | They met with no resistance from government troops . |
| 8 | They met at a party in the mid '80s . |
| 9 | Helena Lisandrello says she had an affair with the actor after they met at a party in 1979 . |
| 10 | They met at a café near the opera , and Arnoux urged his political chief Albert Sarraut to meet this remarkable young man ( Sarraut had previously been Governor-General of Indo-China ) . |
| 11 | They met on the set of the race car drama Days of Thunder in 1990 . |
| 12 | ‘ The last time they met on the face of this earth . ’ |
| 13 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 14 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 15 | They met towards the end of January , and he kept the news from Theo until April . |
| 16 | On Friday they met in a mosque with the men from Zliten , demanded 6000 dinars ( £11,800 at the then official exchange rate , £6500 at the going rate in the free market ) , and received assurances of payment . |
| 17 | She has not seen him since half past six , when they met in the kitchen over a salami sandwich . |
| 18 | But Tyrone took the honours earlier this season when they met in the league at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 19 | He played for Shropshire and Herefordshire boys and was in the same team as Sandy Lyle ; many years later they met in the final of the 1987 Suntory World Matchplay Championship and Woosnam became the first British winner . |
| 20 | They gazed with a covetousness at the scarf around his throat , the socks under his boots , the pants he stripped off in the Bath house , wanted to hold and feel the texture of the garments of a stranger . |
| 21 | The three men got away with six times the amount they expected from the raid on a West Auckland Post Office . |
| 22 | That 's all they got off the union at that time of the day . |
| 23 | They got off the bus at Holborn and got a train to Mile End , from there taking another train to Ilford . |
| 24 | People did n't move much once they got to a road like this one . |
| 25 | The closest they got to an opinion on the two campaigns was when Andrew said that Labour 's campaign organisers had been ‘ more laid back ’ than the Tories , but his brother immediately disagreed , saying that perhaps the Conservatives had shown more flexibility in their poster plans . |
| 26 | When they got to the edge of the grass , Aziz turned and leered at Maisie and Robert . |
| 27 | Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it . |
| 28 | But when they got to the bottom of the Grove they were scared a little . |
| 29 | When they got to the Place of Tombs he would find a way of breaking them up . |
| 30 | Annie was hoping he would go in the opposite direction when they got to the end of the path leading from the rose gardens but to her dismay he moved into step beside her . |