Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After we 'd done five songs they turned the disco on dead loud . ’ |
| 2 | For their trireme warships they used the steering technique of an external oar and this copied in today 's dragon boats . |
| 3 | Under succeeding Labour governments in the 1960s demands for planning became more obtrusive in political rhetoric and in their practical aspects they involved the promotion of industrial reconstruction whether through mergers in the private sector or yet more reorganisation within the nationalised industries . |
| 4 | He kept his head turned towards Mary , though , as between parted lips they licked the tips of each other 's tongues . |
| 5 | Reactors to the TB test were first found in their herd in January 1986 but after only three months they got the all-clear again . |
| 6 | As Communists they followed the party line only loosely . |
| 7 | Unlike the rats they had the right to trial and execution if found guilty , but then … rats have no rights . |
| 8 | The hardships that they had once suffered had left no bitterness in their gentle souls , and all their lives they showed the mercy and kindness to others that God himself shows to all things that breathe . |
| 9 | Over a period of two weeks they noted the time she went to bed each night and calculated an average ‘ time late ’ . |
| 10 | They attempted to take over the city ; for three days they fought the Viet Minh , and in the cross-fire Lieutenant-Colonel Dewey of OSS was shot dead . |
| 11 | For two days they tended the eggs — then ate them ! |
| 12 | For several years they upheld the Pankhurst strategy of concentration on one single issue , though for Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence the suffragette campaign increasingly meant more than acquisition of the vote : ‘ It meant to women the discovery of their own identity , the sources within of purpose , power , and will . ’ |
| 13 | Dot knew there must be people up there in the vulnerable places on the top floor because on their way through the draughty corridors they passed the lift-shafts , each with its rattling metal cage and fearful loops of cable and black rope dangling beneath like greasy snakes . |
| 14 | what ( if any ) changes they considered the review and report had brought about . |
| 15 | The hackers were surpassing themselves in the inventive ways they hit the ball badly , and often , and in the wrong direction . |
| 16 | When they reached the edge of the bush he switched on a torch , and as they entered the opening in the trees they left the canopy of twinkling stars for the canopy of overhead branches . |
| 17 | In Piagetian terms they assimilated the language to what they knew , yet managed to preserve at least part of the meaning . |
| 18 | With some financial backing from a local firm of corn merchants and millers they began the manufacture of portable steam engines in 1845 and steam threshing machines in 1849 . |
| 19 | To provide a polite reminder that the country was started by Englishmen they took the Queen to a hostel called Raffles Hall and Westin Stamfords , another hotel . |
| 20 | At 0930 hrs they found the formation and four of the P–38s opened fire on Yamamoto 's aircraft , it crashed into the jungle killing all on board . |
| 21 | It was to this area that the Hasteds had come at the very beginning of the 19th century ; previously their home had been in the City , in the parishes of St Katherine Coleman and St Olave , Hart Street , but like many of their contemporaries they made the pilgrimage east . |
| 22 | Shoreditch 's theory is that MI5 agents were trying to cast proxy votes on behalf of dead people still on the electoral register , but that in some cases they jumped the gun . |
| 23 | In all cases they considered the limitations of online information specific to their own needs to be a major deficiency . |
| 24 | On October 24,1980 when Diana drove from London to Ludlow to watch Prince Charles race his horse Allibar in the Clun Handicap for amateur riders they spent the weekend with the Parker-Bowles at Bolehyde Manor in Wiltshire . |
| 25 | The justices heard oral evidence , and after a hearing lasting more than six hours they deferred the statement of their decision and reasons for 10 days . |
| 26 | It was only the fact that , as Dorothy said , they believed that ‘ wealth entails social responsibility ’ , that made the activities they funded the target of six decades of jeers and sneers . |
| 27 | Honey magazine recognized this and acted on it in an extraordinary way with the launch of the ‘ Honey boutiques ’ in the major conurbations , so that the groovy styles portrayed in the magazine could be had by hitherto deprived readers in whatever part of the sticks they had the misfortune to live , with no more trouble than a Saturday day return fare . |
| 28 | Asking both men and women how many times they took the driving test before getting through , the researchers found that men had a significantly higher success rate , with 57 per cent passing at the first attempt . |
| 29 | And no matter how many times they asked the girl , no matter how many different ways they approached it , her story was always the same . ’ |
| 30 | Three or four times they varied the system to pull me from my palliasse at a dead hour of the morning-about three-thirty or four a.m . |