Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below , they revealed nothing but a thin haze . |
| 2 | And they got them from a host of people including Lady Thatcher , the Princess of Wales , Noel Edmonds , Frank Muir , Cliff Richard , Sir Harry Secombe and Ian Botham . |
| 3 | Instead , they got themselves into a thoroughly embarrassing mess , saying they accepted Gatting 's statement that nothing improper had taken place but sacking him all the same . |
| 4 | They got themselves in a mess by losing millions on loans to foreign countries and dubious borrowers at home . |
| 5 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 6 | I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself |
| 7 | They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises . |
| 8 | Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession . |
| 9 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 10 | Then they led us into a building and kept us there , all together . ‘ |
| 11 | ‘ I believe they wired it to a car battery and the body asked if Danie Craven is still President of the South African Rugby Board ’ — UNNAMED SOUTH AFRICAN PLAYER on hearing that a Bronze Age body had been found perfectly preserved in an Alpine glacier . |
| 12 | They attacked him with a gun barrel before escaping . |
| 13 | That is why they attacked me with a bomb . |
| 14 | It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi . |
| 15 | They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand . |
| 16 | Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me . |
| 17 | After that , they moved him to a building near Rue Michelle Boutros , and later on to the cellars of two different hospitals in West Beirut , both of them supplied by Tony 's company , AMA Industries . |
| 18 | When the band sensed that Harvey was growing tired they moved him towards a finale and spread a musical carpet and drew a musical curtain and the trumpet milked the applause . |
| 19 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 20 | Quickly they built it into a pyramid over the torch . |
| 21 | They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery . |
| 22 | Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride . |
| 23 | At first they regarded it as a prerequisite for the socialization of large-scale heavy industry . |
| 24 | His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral . |
| 25 | When the Sheriff and his men approached the brothers at Winchelsea , they found them in a state of drunken revelry . |
| 26 | ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones . |
| 27 | There 's only three , yeah three they reckon left in the world and they found one with a Japanese |
| 28 | GH-K are no strangers to such nail-biting circumstances since they only retained their position this season when they found themselves with a better points differential to Stewart's-Melville , who have subsequently won promotion . |
| 29 | Once at the top of the rise , they found themselves on a flat plateau , of which most of the park area consisted |
| 30 | Soon , however , they found themselves in a nightmare situation for although they were walking towards the train they seemed to get no nearer to it . |