Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is overladen with tear-jerking moments , most of them centred on a big eyed calf that Crystal , roped in as mid- wife , delivers onscreen in the film 's only spot of blood and gore . |
| 2 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 3 | Bartlemas had an enormous private income , and the pair of them lived in a tall Victorian house in Islington , which was filled to the brim with play-bills , prints , prompt copies , figurines and other souvenirs of their two heroes . |
| 4 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 5 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 6 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 7 | The composition is saved from monotony by the subtle characterisation of these figures , and united by the concentration on them effected by the inward-facing chariot-teams and the looks of some of the seated figures and of the two reclining in the angles who frame the design . |
| 8 | but er , a lot of them got on the twelve six , you goes the twelve thirty one any way we waved to her when she got on it the coach you see was full at Bart Green , you got , at Redditch |
| 9 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 10 | Galleys took some small part in the indecisive battle of Cape Matapan between the Turkish and Venetian fleets in 1717 ; but apart from the large fleets of them maintained in the Baltic by Russia and Sweden they had become obsolete long before the end of this period . |
| 11 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 12 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 13 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 14 | Although this rank was that of a clerk , in the Constantian period it was applied to those officials who were responsible for the minutes of the imperial consistory and some of them rose to the highest ranks . |
| 15 | But Jim , the chap who lives next door to them came over the other night to collect a pound from me as my contribution to the er , sign on the lamppost saying that this is a watch neighbourhood watch area , now it 's |
| 16 | Most of them came from the single European act . |
| 17 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 18 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 19 | One of them dropped into a formal curtsey , revealing both her cleavage and her undergarment , and he smiled grimly . |
| 20 | One of them parked across the narrow track leading away from the building ; it acted as a barrier . |
| 21 | Most of them believed in an immaterial reality too . |
| 22 | Reports are coming in , some of them confirmed by an independent observer , of large-scale destruction in Bosnia , not only of mosques and monuments ( see The Art Newspaper No. 19 , June 1992 , p.1 ) but also of places of learning , together with the books , archives and manuscripts contained therein . |
| 23 | They allowed him through the security system first , leaving them trapped behind the time-lock doors as he made good his escape . |
| 24 | As the name suggests , the tomatoes are dried in the sun to make them dehydrated like a dried fruit . |
| 25 | The numbers involved are about 700 and most of these job losses have now happened and indeed the bulk of them happened on the last Friday of the financial year which was last week when about 150 people took early retirement . |
| 26 | There were bits of cornland and thatched buildings all over the firmer ground and the slopes of the hill behind him , some of them fired by the early arrivals but many intact . |
| 27 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 28 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 29 | The two of them arrived at the broken gate of a house even more rackety than its peeling neighbours . |
| 30 | She has had fifty governments since the end of the war , many of them dominated by the same personalities and the same political party . |