Example sentences of "they [vb past] with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | They met with no resistance from government troops . |
| 3 | Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 . |
| 4 | These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) . |
| 5 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
| 6 | Six players had dual qualification and the Exiles were prepared to settle for Dobson and Hunter , but they met with a blanket refusal from the Ulster Branch . |
| 7 | ‘ They met with the president . |
| 8 | But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in . |
| 9 | They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order . |
| 10 | They gazed with a covetousness at the scarf around his throat , the socks under his boots , the pants he stripped off in the Bath house , wanted to hold and feel the texture of the garments of a stranger . |
| 11 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 12 | But they agreed with a proposal from the French Government , which is currently responsible for the EC Council of Ministers , to discuss an amendment which would allow the Commission to grant temporary exemptions to countries facing problems with liberalisation . |
| 13 | The Evangelicals recommend ‘ Ragged Schools ’ , Sunday schools , and regular churchgoing as the cure ; they agreed with the Benthamites that education was the ladder leading up the economic scale . |
| 14 | Among those who could not attend but said they agreed with the aims of the delegation were Owen Jones and Bellamy . |
| 15 | ‘ The commission has consulted a lot of people but only listened to what they said when they agreed with the commission , ’ one source said . |
| 16 | But Jean Orr , Professor of Nursing , Queen 's University Belfast and one of the authors of the report , emphasised community staff still had ‘ a lot of energy ’ for students and they agreed with the principles of Project 2000 . |
| 17 | They agreed with the Electrical Contractors ' Association at an early stage that they would operate on ‘ fair and unsubsidised ’ commercial lines . |
| 18 | Those who attempted to manage the political affairs of a county or district of burghs had not only to contribute towards any public project in their area , they were expected to be the leading subscribers , and it mattered little whether or not they agreed with the project in view . |
| 19 | They agreed with the remark of the great French wine writer André Simon : ‘ Alsatian iz ze dog ’ . |
| 20 | Thus , missioners knew from daily experience the fundamental importance to deaf and dumb people of fingerspelling and signing , and they agreed with the deaf community that the language of signs and gestures was their own natural language which they should be allowed to learn as children and to practise as adults . |
| 21 | They understood what the black hat meant , and they agreed with the judge . |
| 22 | They agreed with the Inland Revenue that the return of the fund on death fell within the definition of reasonable interest which the legislation required and so introduced this new concept . |
| 23 | But it was his eyes that compelled her gaze ; between generous lashes they glowed with an amber back-light . |
| 24 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 25 | Queensland 's short , mild winter was slipping easily into a vibrant spring , and tropical plants and shrubs were beginning to fill the gardens they passed with a colourful bounty of flowers . |
| 26 | A few decades later they became even more remote when they passed with the whole of Mesopotamia under the control of the Parthians . |
| 27 | They checked with the firm and they said they did n't repair it , so he got the sack . |
| 28 | The triples did not add significant meaning to the document and they interfered with the flow of thought . |
| 29 | Since issues of property dominate legal work the propertyless have had little cause to encounter it unless they interfered with the interests of those with property . |
| 30 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |