Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed on both counts . |
| 2 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 3 | Figures moving through the dark halls flickered like ghosts as they passed through these moments of light . |
| 4 | Grudgers came to dominate the population because they passed on more genes to future generations than either Suckers ( who helped others indiscriminately , and were exploited ) or Cheats ( who tried ruthlessly to exploit everybody and ended up doing each other down ) . |
| 5 | Treaty in so far as they applied to all owners , charterers , managers and operators of British fishing vessels and to 75 per cent . |
| 6 | ‘ But why they attacked in such numbers and with such determination is beyond my ken . |
| 7 | It can now be concluded that while initially forms of antislavery activity were in considerable part shaped by the struggle against the West Indians , they moved beyond these limits and assumed some of the characteristics of a popular movement . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They entered for all parts of the competition , but submitted a Jacobean design for the War Department and the block plan separately . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On the basis of the answers they received to these questions Goldthorpe and his colleagues concluded that monotony is a definite source of job dissatisfaction . |
| 14 | A South African delegation had attended cautiously , unsure what reaction to expect , and were delighted with the warm response they received from most quarters . |
| 15 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 16 | They came upon several hollows filled with water , silent dark meres , some little more than puddles or ponds , others several acres in extent . |
| 17 | They came from all parts of the kingdom and abroad . |
| 18 | Before the war , they came from many lands to escape from the Nazis — Czechs , Poles , Hungarians , Yugoslavs , even some Germans who were against Hitler . |
| 19 | They came in many shapes , being made from collective desire , which fact seemed to move Sartori profoundly . |
| 20 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 21 | THIN , fat , young , old — they came in all shapes and sizes as the TODAY Cellulite Roadshow was launched yesterday . |
| 22 | They practised for several weeks using newly-developed 1,600lb armour piercing bombs and specially-developed torpedoes fitted with fins for shallow running in the waters of Pearl Harbor . |
| 23 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 24 | They appealed on several grounds , but particularly that ‘ an agreement by two or more persons to insert advertisements in a magazine for the purpose of homosexual acts taking place between consenting adult males in private did not constitute an offence ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They climbed for several minutes , the floor of the cave flaking beneath their tread . |
| 27 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 28 | so they only had them , I think the major , they relied on such reports , as the strong traffic reason at that stage . |
| 29 | They talked of nothing major , but they returned to some things several times . |
| 30 | As they returned from these reconnaissances with a good deal of useful information , authority was pleased . |