Example sentences of "[prep] they [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay swore she would behave herself , awkward in Lucy 's tidy living room , her table between them had a map of the world on it . |
| 2 | In 1980 the Royal Academy of Music , the Royal College of Music , Trinity College of Music , the Royal Northern College of Music and the Birmingham School of Music between them had a total of 1688 students . |
| 3 | The sex scenes between them caused a sensation . |
| 4 | The three great grain stations were La Chapelle-lntérieure , La Plaine-Saint-Denis , and Saint Ouen-les-Docks , which between them received a quarter of all the grain and a fifth of all the flour brought into Paris by train . |
| 5 | The two of them spent a while together , in a flat in Glasgow , but they did n't marry . |
| 6 | There was a ring of children , they were giggling , but some of them looked a bit frightened . |
| 7 | They were coming to the end of the motorway — which went nowhere , after the fashion of the country , having been built to please a politician it was said — and both of them knew a bar . |
| 8 | One of them saw a list of their original haul when they visited Coventry . |
| 9 | A quarter of them said a pub would need to be full of ‘ my type of people ’ to warrant a visit . |
| 10 | Miss Honey was still hugging the tiny girl in her arms and neither of them said a word as they stood there watching the big black car tearing round the corner at the end of the road and disappearing for ever into the distance . |
| 11 | Neither of them said a word more . |
| 12 | The restaurant was still standing but I suspected some unpleasantness had taken place as neither of them said a word until we arrived at the hospital again . |
| 13 | One of them contained a silver sixpence which Frankie turned in his fingers but did not remove in case Sweetheart , in her present bad mood , took it away from him . |
| 14 | They must be attentive to all the susceptibilities that people might have in this connection , and ensure that all of them played a part in resolving the tasks that arose in a society of this kind . |
| 15 | If we look at the Church we find the numbers of monks and secular clergy growing , especially in the eleventh and twelfth centuries ; we also find that more and more of them lived a life of celibacy after the papal reform . |
| 16 | There was at one stage prospecting starting in a locality about ten miles distant from the main area and there was , I think ( my figures may not be exactly right but they 're near enough right ) 276 landowners in the locality and 274 of them signed a petition to the prospecting companies to stay off their land . |
| 17 | you know I can understand now the people that have n't got the truth , when one of the , the mate , when the mate dies whether a woman or a , or a , or a husband dies , they want to die , they do n't want to live because I felt that , I felt that , what 's there , what 's there me left to live , my kids they 're , they have their own families , there all time , they have no time , I brought up three children , I have a full time job and I have time for every one of them to look after and to bring them up and to set them on their way to live and not one of them became a prisoner or something , you know , they 're all have nice jobs and , and nice kid nice people , one , nobody 's in the truth the boys |
| 18 | Carvajal was survived by a wife and two sons : one of them became a broker on the exchange , but neither of them seems to have married . |
| 19 | One of them became a cardinal , and , in 1130 , pope — or , as he came to be reckoned , an anti-pope . |
| 20 | It was perhaps ironic too , that six more sections were cut at Great Casterton , and none of them produced a scrap of pottery from the rampart later than the early second century . |
| 21 | Two of them carried a banner proclaiming their cause and on the outer ring of the group stood Meredith 's whiskery acquaintance , minus his clipboard today , but defiantly carrying a placard of his own , declaring the hunt to be a bastion of class privilege . |
| 22 | One of them carried a guitar case . |
| 23 | One or other of them drafted a statement which was a flat denial that he had misbehaved either sexually or politically . |
| 24 | The sight of them sent a warmth stealing through her veins , and she was afraid her new dress might soon smell of sweat like the old one . |
| 25 | ‘ We wanted these players all to know that each one of them had a chance to be in the French Davis Cup team . |
| 26 | But it does seem possible that Georgina purposely waylaid Arabella on the day before she died , and that the two of them had a row . |
| 27 | The two of them had a row about building houses here . |
| 28 | Some of them had a memory of metal , of bronze heads , and shields and tools : when they came upon the hulk of a wrecked ship on one of the cays of Oualie , they found rusted nails and coopers ' bands and knew that they had remembered right something the islands had never known . |
| 29 | And every single one of them had a spear . |
| 30 | He came one afternoon when one of them had a cold . |