Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They passed through another set of doors and out into the open air . |
| 2 | Figures moving through the dark halls flickered like ghosts as they passed through these moments of light . |
| 3 | It was there that they bumped into some friends of Alexander 's , a couple with two young children of their own , and spent an hour chatting with them round the café table . |
| 4 | They entered for all parts of the competition , but submitted a Jacobean design for the War Department and the block plan separately . |
| 5 | They entered for all parts of the competition , and their designs for the Foreign Office and the War Department were both placed seventh on the assessors ' lists , but Burn did not put them so highly , and in the end both designs were rejected by the judges , and their block plan , which had not even been seen by the assessors and presumably never tested against the conditions , was awarded third prize . |
| 6 | Well then as the unit got bigger , as I said , the room at the offices in the Lock was n't big enough so we moved from there to Alma Green Infant School , that 's the school now they used for all kinds of social activities during the day and th on that side by the car park . |
| 7 | Tories opposed the new credit system set up in the 1690s not because they objected to this type of economic enterprise , but because the benefits to be accrued from it largely passed them by . |
| 8 | They came from all parts of the kingdom and abroad . |
| 9 | Khrushchev 's denunciation of Stalin had angered the Chinese Communist leaders , as they believed in rigid adherence to the Stalin type government , and they disapproved of any form of ‘ co-existence ’ . |
| 10 | They suffered from this limitation of enterprise in times of depression . |
| 11 | It was a terrible price to pay but most defend the legacy of ideas of fairness , justice and good government they communicated to many parts of the globe . |
| 12 | They walked on either side of me and talked to each other , jabbering utter nonsense as though it was all so important , and I , with more brains than the two of them put together and information of the most vital nature , could n't get a word out . |
| 13 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They knew without any shadow of doubt what the patches were . |
| 16 | They knew about most aspects of the technique , which involves more than 100 separate steps . |
| 17 | If she had stopped to think , she would have remembered that Brown Owl had told the Pack more than once always to seek the help of a grown-up they knew in any case of emergency . |
| 18 | Lot nineteen sixty one , an option to purchase your honour for three hundred and eighty five which at that time was at a rate of nine hundred pounds a year and they went to this friend of the firm of solicitors and there of the document which doubly signed and was dated March twenty four nineteen sixty one but my consideration one pounds penny by thereby granted to for the purchasing of . |
| 19 | Then they went into another tank of clean water and from there into an oven to dry . |
| 20 | Although precise definitions are hard to come by , it is clear that they looked to some kind of ideal worker , that is , someone who was trustworthy , interested , intelligent , literate and numerate , full of initiative , and capable of mental and physical agility . |
| 21 | Here 's how they dealt with that sort of problem in Athens . |
| 22 | They spoke to each other of ‘ poor Cec ’ |
| 23 | George nodded and motioned her to silence again ; although they waited for another quarter of an hour , it was a vain vigil ! |
| 24 | As they stood on either side of the door looking at one another she felt as if a magic elixir was being created , ready to cure a disease . |
| 25 | Their eyes were identically glazed in male and female as they stood on either side of a seated broadclothed patriarch . |
| 26 | Glaring from one to the other as they stood on either side of the bed , she said crossly to Lucy , ‘ So you 've brought him to see me at last . |
| 27 | Music played softly in the background as they stood on either side of the hearth , smiling uncertainly at one another like former lovers reunited after a long absence and wondering whether they still had anything in common . |
| 28 | Thirty years apart in age , they embraced with that warmth of affection which pious women sometimes allow themselves towards each other , knowing that it will be mistaken for nothing else . |
| 29 | Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked . |
| 30 | ‘ What a beautiful young woman , ’ the young man thought , and , unaware of their own narcissism , they sat on either side of the pinewood table for all the world as if they really were twins , recently separated and reuniting in astonishment . |