Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 4 ] All of them made clear the extent to which poverty persisted even in households headed by a male working long hours , and when wives and children contributed to family income in all ways possible . |
| 2 | The two of them walked all the way to Matilda 's house in complete silence . |
| 3 | at work , and they got all the Mercury numbers in |
| 4 | They got all the money ! |
| 5 | They got all the money ! |
| 6 | Er I was fully aware of the fact that er you know , some people say , particularly in the fitting departments where experience had taught the fitters , having been given a free hand , er that they accumulated all the parts for a job , or even part of the job , they did certain assemblies you know , until they got all the part pieces assembled ready to combine it into the main unit , erm that experience er was being overtaken by an introduction of smaller units being assembled you know , bit by bit as they were being produced in the machine shop . |
| 7 | Got erm , they got all the supplies of oil underneath the sand in the desert |
| 8 | However , their fortunes were soon to enter on that switchback which took them first to a golden age , and then through impoverishment to extinction as they became first the beneficiaries of factory-produced yarn , and then the victims of their own expansion in numbers and , ultimately , of the power loom . |
| 9 | But over the next months they became convinced the couple had been killed by someone they knew . |
| 10 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 11 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 12 | I stopped calling Leon 's name and felt unreasonably furtive , wished the dogs were n't with me , they made such a noise . |
| 13 | Well they made such a mess of this ring ! |
| 14 | And he was going round and they made such a fuss of him cos he was Philomena 's husband |
| 15 | It was amazing , therefore , that they made such an impression … |
| 16 | He went down to and trained here and then he came back and they made all the maps there . |
| 17 | ‘ I wish we still had patrons ’ , Roy Spring says , ‘ they made all the difference . ’ |
| 18 | And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses . |
| 19 | Each year they asked all the people to do little sketches , and as my sister and I spoke French , we thought it might be quite fun to do a kind of singing and dancing cabaret act — it was quite risqué at the time — I was fourteen — and in fact we were spotted by a talent scout who wanted us to come up and audition for a show in a London night club . |
| 20 | Her little apartment had become their home , where she cooked for him and they shared all the daylight hours together . |
| 21 | He partnered Dwyer in the foursomes against vastly experienced Yorkshire captain Steve East and ex-professional Chris Bloice and they fought all the way before going down 2 & 1 . |
| 22 | In another cupboard they found half a bottle of whisky and a dribble of brandy in the bottom of a Courvoisier bottle . |
| 23 | Two of them carried a big straw basket between them , which they hoped to fill as they visited all the houses in the village . |
| 24 | They visited all the factories and shops they could squeeze into their brief , allotted time and the highlight of their visit was a Silver Anniversary Ball when 700 people gathered at the leisure centre near Deeside , Queensferry . |
| 25 | They changed all the teachers round now because |
| 26 | Some were friends , some were enemies , but they changed all the time . |
| 27 | They played all the time . |
| 28 | Had it not been for the guillotine debate , for the way in which the Government put the pressure on , for the way in which they shepherded all the sheep , ministerial and other , through the Lobbies , we would not be here today . |
| 29 | That was our marking , all our ships used to have the blue and er I think blue and yellow in the square , cos they hired these the people who do er you know suppose hire them off now would be the erm the Dutch people cos they 're the people what er , they deal in all that type of thing , big dredging , that 's how Rotterdam was built |
| 30 | They swapped all the babies round and removed the name bands on their wrists . |