Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donna had squinted at them as she 'd read . |
| 2 | They enjoyed taking part in the movement session Jean had devised for them and watching demonstrations given by the small group she took along . |
| 3 | The Sex Pistols had , in part , achieved what Branson had expected of them . |
| 4 | In the Fox and Grapes , Lily did n't doubt that The Towers ' staff discussed the servants Sophie and Teodor had brought with them . |
| 5 | Gould had stayed with them in their hut on his way to and from Namoi . |
| 6 | Jake had spoken of them to Adam , in a sentence too mad to understand . |
| 7 | Maggie had forgotten about them , but there were several — or had been several — in Heymouth , including one in the lighthouse . |
| 8 | The labels which Darwin had attached to them did not say where the specimens were found ; he simply had not had any reason at the time to think that geography was important . |
| 9 | Hearts ' bad day was made worse with the news that Celtic had moved past them into second place in the Premier Division after beating Falkirk 3–1 . |
| 10 | He and Blanche also knew that Jim Lancaster had lied to them about when he stumbled across his wife 's adultery . |
| 11 | After the ceremony , she and Ludovico went to Chiesa Santo Spirito , at the end of their road , where Ludovico had arranged for them to be blessed , explaining to her that it had no religious significance and did not endanger her non-Catholic soul . |
| 12 | Tom had foundered against them . |
| 13 | The great skeletal tree trunks , sun warmed on the sand — she and Adam had climbed on them , scrambling over the huge crooked shapes . |
| 14 | The complete absence of tension in their home and the privacy to talk in the evenings , just to each other , drove home to them as nothing else could have done , what a strain they had been under while Sarah and Ann Butler had lived with them , |
| 15 | All the victims — Mr Salmon , Mr Kinnock and Mr Major — were done to a T , with chopped peppers and barbecued sauce , by the time Walden had finished with them . |
| 16 | A batch of children accompanied by a young woman and the billeting officer who had brought Willie had walked past them and were heading towards the Town Hall . |
| 17 | DULÉ SKIMMED INTO shore silently , under cover of darkness , and threaded through the banana fronds and mango groves to Ariel 's cabin ; a leaf here , a twig there gave under him , but the English sailor posted watch in the clearing was fast asleep and the others would not have woken from their stone weariness if Dulé had hallooed at them . |
| 18 | All the children said that Miss Outram had impressed on them not to ‘ go home and tell your mothers and make a bother about it ’ . |
| 19 | He was enthusiastic about the paper being located in Manchester , whereas Pilger had clashed with them over the move . |
| 20 | The deists and Christian rationalists of the Enlightenment believed that rational argument could demonstrate the existence of God , just as Descartes had maintained before them . |
| 21 | Several towers were capped by domes in the shape the Mughals had brought with them from Persia and Central Asia . |
| 22 | Mona Washbrooke , questioned about finding the keys on the floor and confirming what Maureen had said about them , felt foolish not to have spotted immediately that they were the wrong colour . |
| 23 | Three of these were his fellow truckers from the night Jim Miller had stumbled into them at the gas station . |
| 24 | Anxiously she hoped not , although she had had one or two uneasy moments about certain other guests who were not simply here to witness the ceremony like the gentlemen from the mill and the dressmakers , but would have to be entertained to champagne and bride-cake and all the other delicacies Mrs Drubb had prepared for them afterwards , at Frizingley Hall . |
| 25 | They 've come back and now they could begin to experience the blessings that God had planned for them . |
| 26 | They were encouraged to remember the past and warned of the danger of forgetting what God had done for them ( e.g. Deuteronomy 6:12 ) . |
| 27 | Abraham was accepted by God in virtue of what Christ would do upon the cross by bearing the curse of the broken law upon his representative shoulders : men living after the cross could be accepted by God as they put their trust in what God had done for them through Jesus . |
| 28 | Mr Salperton had paid for them to go . |
| 29 | ‘ I feel better now , ’ said young Tilney to Toby , as the boys sat around eating supper — a potato pie that Mrs Garfitt had left for them , and which Toby had put in the oven . |
| 30 | Kate had come across them all her working life , from the solicitors who tried to get off known offenders to the social workers who stood up in courts of law and gave character references for people who should have been locked up once and for all . |