Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Clinically , an acute self limiting obstructive condition was evident in 13 cases with AA , and 12 of them returned to normal bowel function after receiving total parenteral nutrition . |
| 32 | Only 1,000 people work on long-term — usually one-to two-year — secondments in the UK at present , many of them arranged by London-based secondment broker the Action Resource Centre . |
| 33 | So elegant chateaux , some of them pressed into contemporary usefulness without loss of character , exist beside new swimming pools . |
| 34 | The sound of the water faded , there were only the two of them locked in this tiny space , and suddenly it became difficult to breathe . |
| 35 | Hospitals throughout the area were put on full alert as fleets of ambulances carried the injured , most of them hit by flying glass , to casualty departments . |
| 36 | The three of them watched in breathless silence as the doors reached their maximum aperture . |
| 37 | Books — shelves and shelves of books , reaching up to the ceiling , most of them bound in pale calf with gold lettering on the spines . |
| 38 | Although there are numerous examples of local groups undertaking practical projects which are most encouraging , I would have liked to have seen them covered in more detail . |
| 39 | She felt completely comfortable in her presence , and the two of them talked to each other more or less as equals . |
| 40 | The three of them looked at each other , and Husband said cautiously : ‘ If you say a matter of hours , you do mean tonight ? ’ |
| 41 | The three of them looked into each other 's faces , and seemed to breathe more freely . |
| 42 | None of them knew for sure — except James Lambert . |
| 43 | Presbyterian ministers from South Korea have told me of their daily dawn prayer meetings , many of them attended by thousands of people . |
| 44 | There was little hope for political enlightenment in the provinces at a time when the number of literary centres and of those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to in 1921 . |
| 45 | In 1922 the number of literacy centres and those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to by 1921 . |
| 46 | They presented a target thus for only a matter of seconds , though three of them fell in that time ; then they were hand-to-hand and at blows with the prince 's bodyguard and this was battle as it had formerly been understood between knights , and the hovering archers were crippled and out of the fight . |
| 47 | The number of listed companies rose by 428 during the four years , but the number of firms auditing them fell by 39 . |
| 48 | When questioned further very few of them thought of this God or power as a man , but either as a person without a body or as something like air or gas , and a few said they did not know or that there was no God . |
| 49 | She is looking for critical views against which to pitch her own ; it seems that she may have chosen the wrong sort of topic , since on a holiday in Italy she had been stunned by the newly renovated Michelangelo ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome , and although there were plenty of books about it , many of them went into extravagant detail . |
| 50 | So , when they had finished their ward round , the two of them went to each patient in turn and inquired tactfully whether they ate earth . |
| 51 | About half of them went to British colonies , mainly to the sugar islands , and the rest were sold in other colonies in the Americas . |
| 52 | ‘ Last week , they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 tickets . |
| 53 | Last week they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 ’ Rangers ' statement |
| 54 | But whatever they assimilated from other cultures and traditions , they applied in a specifically Judaic context . |
| 55 | They whispered to each other . |
| 56 | They whispered to each other that Tess was sure to marry that handsome gentleman . |
| 57 | They were often designed by engineers , but what they lacked in architectural distinction , they gained in homely practicality and in the opportunities they afforded to local carpenters to display their skills in beautifully carved barge boarding and valances . |
| 58 | The response of the Governors was swift : they announced on 14th March 1975 that the School would go " Independent " and they launched The Stopfordian Trust to provide the sort of bursaries which would be required . |
| 59 | This may be explained , at least in part , by the greater antigen binding capacity of the solid phase , and might explain why some of the antibodies showed reactivity with antigens bound to nitrocellulose which they failed to recognised by ELISA . |
| 60 | The party of low taxes , the party of high taxes they failed on that . |