Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 2 | In the thirteenth century they got rid of old restrictions which fettered the freedom of alienation in the interest of lords or heirs . |
| 3 | They got rid of electronic monitoring equipment , including TV cameras and recorders , by complaining that these interfered with their powers and caused headaches . |
| 4 | I can recall a class of ten-year-olds designing their own Norman village for several drama sessions before they became engaged in non-projected drama activity ( personal play , as Peter Slade calls it ) , i.e. before they started interacting with each other as villagers instead of through their designs . |
| 5 | The more media permeated life from 1945 to 1990 , and the more they became concentrated in international conglomerates , the more important the accountability of media themselves became . |
| 6 | These broad silver coins were first minted under his orders and they became known as Giulii for that reason . |
| 7 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 8 | However , they had been plunged into a welter of activity in which they tried to respond to urgent and practical matters placed before them and it is , therefore , not surprising that a commonly held view was that ‘ the best form of training comes from getting on with the job ’ . |
| 9 | They tried to talk of other things than murder and violence but there were too many reminders . |
| 10 | They trained to land in various numbers , although in later years some nine men made up the team in a powered dory . |
| 11 | That was what they seemed to have in common , that and Rufus 's brother and Adam knowing each other already , but after a while Adam got to see things he admired in Rufus , his toughness , the way he 'd got himself organized and in hand , the way he knew where he was going and yet still could be amusing and casual . |
| 12 | Neighbours formed queues on occasions as they came to complain of mindless acts of vandalism . |
| 13 | The feature they came to have in common was occupancy of land in South Kensington purchased with the profits from the 1851 Exhibition at the Crystal Palace . |
| 14 | But there was a house on this repossession and it was sort of like just a sort of young couple and they 'd bought this house and it was like a two bedroom house and they 'd done up beautiful . |
| 15 | They 'd gone from legless to stone cold sober in nothing flat . |
| 16 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 17 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 18 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 19 | They 'd seemed on close terms since the night he overheard them quarrelling . |
| 20 | They claimed to speak for traditional family values and found support from various fundamentalists — Orthodox Jewish , Roman Catholic , Baptist — in an attempt both to broaden their appeal among Haringey 's multiracial population and to strengthen their message that homosexuality was ‘ unnatural ’ in all cultures . |
| 21 | During the mid 1890s , however , they began to turn to mass agitation at factory level and found the workers highly responsive . |
| 22 | During the mid nineties , however , they began to turn to mass agitation at factory level . |
| 23 | You have to remember that Americans only found this endemic American music in the '60s when they began listening to English groups , who were doing something really important , which was taking black music and making it louder . |
| 24 | As soon as they were taken from shelter , they began to slide on locked wheels over the yard , and then to tilt . |
| 25 | They began to drift into amiable silence when they had asked each other questions about their children and the schools , and the plans they had for their holiday in Ireland . |
| 26 | They began to meet in private houses where they read sermons and prayed together . |
| 27 | Brusilov 's attack broke through his enemy 's line on a front of nearly 320km/ 200mls , throwing the Austro-Hungarian Army into bewildered retreat , and they began to surrender in large numbers . |
| 28 | They began to journey towards similar conclusions — despite a number of false starts along the way . |
| 29 | Bannen leaned attentively towards the Doctor and they began to speak in low voices . |
| 30 | They returned to live in rented accommodation , without support from the husband , and lived in straitened circumstances , relying on welfare payments and charitable support . |