Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [adv] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a separate experiment they actually monitored the eye fixations of subjects while watching the slide and found that in the arousal condition subjects fixated more often on central details , though for less time per fixation . |
| 2 | Police found credit cards in both the name of Garawand and Yousefi they also took the keys to a white Ford Transit van , which they discovered in a car park . |
| 3 | At times Pareto and Mosca both described elite rule as the dominance of those best at governing over the non-elite or masses , but in practice they quickly dropped the assumption that the governing elite is always a genuine aristocracy ( the rule of the best ) . |
| 4 | When he was winning all the time , people spoke of his alleged meanness and refusal to communicate ; when he fell foul of the Inland Revenue they carefully looked the other way . |
| 5 | The male working-class vote was , from the start , divided between the existing parties , and when socialist or social democratic parties appeared on the scene they seldom attained the political dominance which the solid support of the workers would have assured for them . |
| 6 | Edging their way through the densely-packed throng they finally reached the organist who carried on playing , at the same time bending down an ear in the sergeant 's direction . |
| 7 | So long as religious music and sophisticated secular music shared the common techniques of imitative polyphony they naturally preserved a relationship the closeness of which is demonstrated by the numerous paraphrase Masses based on madrigals or chansons . |
| 8 | At the moment they only had the word of Nicola 's husband for what had happened . |
| 9 | At one point they also passed a beached whale squirming in the desert . |
| 10 | By this process they literally made the art of other communities their own . |
| 11 | During their investigation they repeatedly told the family that they must have provoked the attack . |
| 12 | Though they could pinpoint no inaccuracies in our evidence they nevertheless accepted the police 's version of events . |
| 13 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 14 | On New Year 's Day they briefly topped the division , but since then have lost players and impetus . |
| 15 | One night they almost snapped an axle when Jed 's eyes fell shut and the car left the highway and began to lurch across dry yellow grass . |
| 16 | Even after we won the game they still ended the show with a rerun of the goal that won the Liverpool game ! ! ! |
| 17 | But she said that they had been so many months or when everybody else had a pay rise they only had a little bit . |
| 18 | At Christmas they always played ‘ You came down from the stars ’ and at Easter they usually played a Pastorale , and what with the roar of the traffic and the crowds of chattering shoppers or tourists it was practically impossible to distinguish the tune except in short bursts . |
| 19 | In their majority verdict they also expressed the view that the crime was committed under provocation . |
| 20 | More importantly , in return for supporting the Government they also extracted a promise that Scotland 's representation on this potentially very powerful body will comprise at least one representative of each of Scotland 's four major parties . |
| 21 | The butler seized the glass where upon the fairies tried to regain the cup but realising that they were no match for this mortal they finally abandoned the struggle and vanished , leaving the butler with the glass cup and according to a ballad by the German poet Uhland with this warning . |
| 22 | The old joke is that in the army they once had the message ‘ Send reinforcements we 're going to advance ’ but it became ‘ Send three and fourpence we 're going to a dance . ’ |
| 23 | Two years after the secession , Robert of Stratford , the Chancellor of England and Oxford , wrote to Cambridge University with the sobering thought that and until 1854 , Oxford made students swear an oath They even took the Brazenose gate knocker to Oxford in 189O under the impression that it had originally come from Oxford . |
| 24 | To this end they repeatedly urged the government to return fugitives to their cities , and to abolish the immunities enjoyed by church and noble land in and around the cities . |
| 25 | But er , in the end they never got the license back . |
| 26 | In England even when Botham was working one of his miracles people at work did not stop ; if they did not have a radio they just rang the Test score , on the works phone of course , a bit more frequently . |
| 27 | Even in comparative shadow they still looked the same . |
| 28 | Even here a word of caution is necessary , for although medieval writers employed the Roman calendar they sometimes reckoned the Kalend , None and Ide elements in reverse order ; so that , for example , 14 January might appear not as XIX Kal Feb but as Pridi Kal Feb ( prima die kalendarum Feb ) . |
| 29 | Indeed , in their frequently incestuous marriages , and in their usually selfish domination they seriously compromised the fundamental prohibitions against incest and parricide on which all human societies depend . |
| 30 | In Virginia Cowles ' account they also had a 3-tonner with supplies and extra men inside . |