Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the songs they sang on such occasions had a defiance in them , always remembering of course they had a drink in them at the time . |
| 2 | This is Eadmer 's account of the steps they took in this emergency. : |
| 3 | We were talking about budget decisions and after the microphones closed at the end of the programme they commented about that home in Blenheim Road in Kidlington , and to them it was n't healthy . |
| 4 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 5 | They were the last words they spoke to each other . |
| 6 | For a second they glared at each other . |
| 7 | The public silence was broken early in 1987 by Marxism Today , who can seldom resist a bandwagon , even if they often fall under the wheels in the process ; and the particular bandwagon they joined on this occasion was the one about what the Tories had labelled ‘ Loony Left ’ councils . |
| 8 | For a moment they stared at each other — and , though the anger and hostility in the room were almost visible , the memory of that long-ago day hung in the air between them . |
| 9 | For a moment they stared at each other , while the klaxon remorselessly threw out a yard and a half of raucousness every two seconds . |
| 10 | He turned to look at her again , and for a long moment they stared at each other , irreconcilable strangers either side of a barrier ; and yet Sara had the odd feeling that some part of her longed to understand Matthew Preston , to agree with him , to acquiesce in his decisions . |
| 11 | For a long moment they stared at each other and it was as if the body language they had shared in the pool had ceased to be a game and the strained politeness of the last week had never been . |
| 12 | Sophie looked aghast and for a moment they stared at each other . |
| 13 | Then for another moment they looked at each other . |
| 14 | For a moment they looked at each other square in the eye . |
| 15 | For a moment they looked at each other , and then they were in each other 's arms again . |
| 16 | For a moment they looked at each other in the penetrating light of early morning . |
| 17 | For a moment they struggled with each other 's clothing , tearing at the lacing , freeing themselves , and then he had lifted her on to him and was thrusting deep into her , her legs wrapped about his back , her pelvis pushing down urgently to meet his movements . |
| 18 | Garling 's design was also placed first on Angell and Pownall 's and Burn 's War Department lists , although the first place they awarded to another Second Empire scheme on the Foreign Office list , was only awarded the second prize by the judges . |
| 19 | Mr Burgreen was not able to offer his department 's critics the reform they wanted above all others : improvement of San Diego 's unusually weak system of investigating police shootings . |
| 20 | That eighteenth-century generals and governments were justified in the attention they gave to this problem is clear . |
| 21 | The range in content and style of these courses was considerable , and over the PNP period they focused on many aspects of the curriculum , on social issues , professional roles , classroom management , curriculum development and school management , and on specific areas of child need . |
| 22 | By the early 1940s , the influence of Orson Welles and William Wyler as directors , together with Gregg Toland , the innovative lighting cameraman they shared with each other ( and sometimes with John Ford and Howard Hawks too ) , made deep-focus more fashionable . |
| 23 | One sign of the importance they attached to this work is that turquoise covered masks featured in the tribute handed to Cortés and transmitted to the emperor Charles V. Some of these passed into the family collection of the Medici and following the dispersal of this the important examples now in the Museum of Mankind passed to the British Museum . |
| 24 | After retirement they returned to that country to assist in the clinic in the embattled township of Alexandra , outside Johannesburg . |
| 25 | In business they conferred with each other for a few minutes and then made their offer . |
| 26 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
| 27 | In fact , when the Labour Party did come to power in 1964 , the only documentation they possessed on this subject was a single sheet of paper provided by myself , recommending among other things the establishment of rent officers , an idea in which I was subsequently able to interest Dick Crossman . |
| 28 | Unlike the last occasion they ran into each other , this time Sheehy came off worse and his plane was grounded as a result of the damage . |
| 29 | For a while they lay in each other 's arms , the sweet lethargy claiming them , but as Alain 's arms tightened around her and his lips became insistent , Jenna drew back and looked up into his dark eyes . |
| 30 | By their very quality and integrity they continued for several years after I had been graduated from the post of Talks Producer to higher echelons of musical and dramatic productions . |