Example sentences of "they [vb past] of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Letters from one of them told of Mohnyin , another BCMS centre , where the nurses from the Mandalay Children 's Hospital had settled . |
| 2 | To allow them to do their job well it was essential to keep them informed of ATB policy and to listen to the ideas and suggestions that came from the industry , usually through them . |
| 3 | The evidence against them consisted of confessions said to have been extracted under torture . |
| 4 | Most of them died of starvation , beatings or exposure to sub-zero weather , bound naked to trees outside the group 's mountain hideouts. — Reuter |
| 5 | Of the five rebleeders , two received a second injection with the same solution and one achieved haemostasis , the other refused an operation and died soon afterwards ; one received heater probe thermocoagulation and achieved haemostasis ; and two received surgical intervention ( one of them died of wound infection with sepsis , the other had an uneventful course ) . |
| 6 | But the successful intervention of the communist Chinese in the Korean War proved to be the start of a period in which the British , while they clung of necessity to the Atlantic alliance , were often fearful of some impulsive or extreme action by the United States which would lead to an unnecessary intensification of East–West conflict and even , possibly , to the Third World War . |
| 7 | Thus the church added twelve through ‘ biological growth ’ as they became of age for church membership . |
| 8 | And the kind of thing they made of course erm were just short moments of motion , short silent films which showed action which lasted about a minute . |
| 9 | The rhetorical use they made of anthropologists ' ideas as a source for a criticism of the society of their time , especially as a criticism of the way institutions such as the family , marriage , and the status of women were seen as unchangeable and eternally fixed , is one which seems totally justified to present-day anthropologists . |
| 10 | The rooms were cold and empty , and they smelled of dust and glue size . |
| 11 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 12 | In conversation with the boys they learnt of Minton 's homosexuality and though this ruled him out as a potential husband it did not diminish their desire to be in his company . |
| 13 | They imbibed of necessity the belief in order and stability and , inevitably and as was intended , projected the same values on to the street people . |
| 14 | Gilbert , in his detailed study of social policy in this period , has shown that politicians were alarmed by the reports they received of unrest and agitation among the ranks of the unemployed . |
| 15 | But away from the lenses they told of torture , rape and mass-executions . |
| 16 | People were deemed to consent to the system of government they were born under when they came of age by virtue of the fact of their remaining within that particular society . |
| 17 | Florence further says that witnesses of the agreement later declared that Edmund left no portion of the kingdom to his brothers should he die , and agreed that Cnut should be the protector of his sons until they came of age . |
| 18 | They are admittedly themselves valueless and are thrown away and it was for that reason , no doubt , that Upjohn J. was constrained to say that their value lay in the evidence they afforded of success in an advertising campaign . |
| 19 | The way they manipulated their gang members , the way they deferred to their adoring mother Vi and the way they disposed of smalltime enemies like George Cornell and Jack ‘ The Hat ’ McVittie , were all done with a tangled misunderstanding of vice and virtue . |
| 20 | They used to go all the way out to these erm Searchlight Stations and erm they used to , very often they , they were situated in a , in a sort of pit in a dug out and erm when they arrived of course er the Education Officer had forgotten to tell the , the troops that there was a lecture that they were supposed to attend and er nobody turned up . |
| 21 | In a recent NCT survey , 19 out of 20 British people said they approved of breastfeeding in principle , but did n't like to see it in a public place . |
| 22 | They heard of course from the child himself and they had the advantage of a very full report prepared at short notice from the guardian ad litem and the guardian ad litem was present and assisted the justices at the hearing . |
| 23 | On that night , Tuesday , 24 August 1773 , they talked of murderers being hanged — Lord Errol must have had a fund of such stories : he was the Lord High Constable of Scotland ; then they drank port , and were seen to their rooms by their host himself . |
| 24 | The same pattern was found in the discourse of white , middle-class New Zealanders , when they talked of Maoris ( Wetherell and Potter , 1986 ; McFadyen and Wetherell , 1986 ) . |
| 25 | They talked of clothes and friends . |
| 26 | What neither German radio nor the public knew was that the Duke of Buccleuch was placed under house arrest on his estates in Scotland , several aristocrats were personally warned by Churchill that if they talked of peace they would be jailed , and Lord Londonderry was questioned inconclusively about a meeting that was alleged to have taken place on his Mountstewart estate in Northern Ireland with four German agents who had travelled up through the Free State . |
| 27 | As she and Marian dug out the vegetables in the pouring rain , they talked of Talbothays and of the sunny green fields and of Angel Clare . |
| 28 | They talked of Zelah 's forthcoming debut on television and of Tony 's plans for a spring exhibition at a London gallery . |
| 29 | He had always thought that poets grossly overstated things when they talked of eyes like stars . |
| 30 | They talked of elections . |