Example sentences of "[adj] they [verb] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What became real to her was not Therese Aschmann , but the tiny diamond and garnet engagement ring Willi had bought in a shop at the back of St Stephen 's Cathedral , and Gerda 's delight , and the luck they had had in getting two cancellation seats at the Staatsoper for a performance of Figaro , and the elegance of their hotel , and the toy truck they had bought for Georg , which had been so large they 'd had trouble getting it home . |
| 2 | In the week after the election we asked our panel to look back Over the whole campaign and tell us how useful they had found television , the press , and other sources for : ( 1 ) helping decide what party leaders and personalities were really like ; ( 2 ) keeping them informed about the issues ; and ( 3 ) helping them decide how to vote . |
| 3 | Because the insulating characteristics of timber-frame houses are so good they do give rise to the problem known as ‘ interstitial condensation ’ , as was revealed in the television documentary . |
| 4 | Well the new edition 's just come out and it 's in the shops shortly , it 's priced sixty five pounds , and as usual they 've let Radio Oxford have a copy to give away as a prize . |
| 5 | Where cloth had been scarce they had pinned ivy or ch'in-sei , the silver-leafed creeper which grew where nothing else would survive , and Artai 's device — an eagle with an arrow in its talons — was painted onto friezes which were roped to gables and lamp cressets . |
| 6 | I 'm mean they 've got export people that know about that , and E C people one of those things . |
| 7 | If the results from the Morton Salt Mine are correct they seem to spell trouble for one of the simplest ‘ grand unified ’ theories , known as SU ( 5 ) . |
| 8 | We have our local school in the flight path and apart from the fact the noise is so bad they have to stop teaching , there is also genuine concern about safety . |