Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [adj] in the " in BNC.

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1 They found him naked in the morning ,
2 They ignored me safe in the open field where the old ridge and furrow strips and the flatter headlands where the plough was turned were clearly silhouetted by the sun .
3 they threw it all in the brook
4 K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been .
5 They looked very strange , it is true , but they kept me dry in the rain .
6 Her 16-year-old brother was arrested and tortured ( they removed the skin from his face and the soles of his feet ) ; then they burnt him alive in the village square .
7 Convinced in the summer of 1906 that the government 's contemptuous dismissal of the First Duma might ignite renewed revolutionary action , they did their best in the Vyborg Manifesto to channel any such protest into passive resistance .
8 But 68 per cent of Democrats leaving the polling stations in New York said they wanted someone new in the race .
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