Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They were ‘ volunteers ’ who between them had vast experience of how ‘ Maranyl ’ was manufactured on our five extrusion systems at Billingham .
2 It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance .
3 Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money .
4 Not all of them enjoyed full sovereignty nor were very united or coherent in structure .
5 At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination .
6 And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty .
7 None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour .
8 What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism .
9 Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war .
10 They none of them had much money , but the Bouveries had a house , for which they did not have to pay rent .
11 Neither of them had much appetite but they finished the wine .
12 And all of them had one thing in mind .
13 Three of them had serious face and hand burns and were transferred to the burns unit of Glasgow Royal Infirmary .
14 And all of them had various music jobs before meeting up .
15 Some of them had crucial help from the Israeli secret service , Mossad ) Those army commanders who did not immediately his were not so lucky .
16 Twenty-five trunk lines went into Chicago and most of them had attendant freight and passenger depots .
17 The reason for the hypergastrinaemia in the four idiopathic DU patients is also unclear and it is of note that only one of them had antral gastritis .
18 Bradshaw , Foo , Doerner , Cooke : each of them had some claim to supremacy .
19 By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ .
20 Margaret tried them all , but none of them had any help for her .
21 Besides , none of them had any sense of humour and I ruined many a high-flown discussion by making jokes .
22 Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money .
23 Neither of them had any desire to repeat the experience .
24 Again , there was a high percentage of part-time farmers ( in Bavaria something like 48% ) but most of them had urban employment as opposed to rural off-farm employment , as found in the other countries .
25 There were three diabetic patients , in the seris , and two of them had severe sepsis after operation .
26 None of them had direct experience of retail tariff-making and they were to find most of their initiatives on tariffs blocked by the Area Board chairmen .
27 Four of them had another go as The Madness but it did n't work , and suddenly they were gone .
28 But most of them wore Western dress : polyester trousers , anoraks and sneakers .
29 When the police from the house rushed down and saw them riding away , they say some of them wore military uniform . ’
30 Two of them wore white uniform .
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