Example sentences of "they [vb past] of [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But why , they asked of each other , should a child like that be under the care of the rag woman ? |
| 2 | In this case it is clear that the original excavators included only those coins which they deemed of sufficient importance for publication . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Indeed , Hateley is confident that the Scottish champions , buoyant after the way in which they disposed of English champions Leeds , can lick the continent 's cream . |
| 5 | The earliest textile mills were similar to the traditional water-powered flour mills because they consisted of load-bearing masonry external walls and wooden floors held up by timber posts or cast-iron columns and often occupied equally remote rural locations in order to exploit fully the power provided by the rushing streams of narrow Pennine valleys . |
| 6 | They consisted of small groups of civil servants and industrial secondees who attempted to initiate modest proposals to reduce local unemployment , in part by linking government investment in such areas as public works and training , to private-sector developments . |
| 7 | For the most part they consisted of small groups of people meeting in homes . |
| 8 | During the meal , as if by mutual consent , they talked of other things , but it was difficult . |
| 9 | They talked of other things as they approached Blacklion , parts of Ireland they both knew , the parts they liked the best . |
| 10 | They talked of many things . |
| 11 | They talked of hereditary occupations in the Highlands ; the rigour of church rules and creeds ; they looked at Latin books , and tiptoed around a delicate matter — whether Johnson the Anglican might wish to hear Mr MacAulay say their Presbyterian prayers in the household , which Boswell doubted . |
| 12 | And they still trooped in and out of his house occasionally , looking at him pityingly , as they talked of foreign films , the latest play at the Royal Court and the need for the immediate withdrawal of armed forces from Nicaragua . |
| 13 | Breeze complied , and they talked of trivial matters until her fixed regard took effect . |
| 14 | They talked of interesting things ; ship-building , the invasion of England , cannon , the path newly discovered west to the Indies , chess , dogs , the king 's mistress . |
| 15 | First it was necessary for participants to recognise how little they understood of each others ' work , and then to begin to formulate ways of working as a team . |
| 16 | The less they saw of each other , Constance had reluctantly accepted over the years , the better friends she and her mother were . |
| 17 | This account was mainly intended to bring together some of the comments made by the members of the Arkleton Trust Advisory Committee on what they saw of rural development in Lewis and Harris . |
| 18 | They thought of each other . ’ |
| 19 | They complained of frequent staff changes resulting in a lack of consistency between residential workers and inadequate control of the youngsters . |
| 20 | In 1985 the Serbs in Kosovo Polje , a suburb of Priština , collected 2,011 signatures to a petition , in which they complained of constant pressure from the Albanians , amounting to ‘ fascist genocide ’ , and of the failure of the Kosovo government to protect them . |
| 21 | They spoke of indifferent things , but her mind , resenting too tight a control , kept whining away with its own questions . |
| 22 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 23 | They spoke of mass genocide at the hands of Saddam Hussein . |
| 24 | They dreamt of free elections , of a restoration of their republic , of a future without communism . |
| 25 | As an important control , this sentence was neutral with respect to the rest of the passage , so that subjects would be unable to reconstruct it from what they remembered of other sentences in the passage . |
| 26 | Dieters were told that they only had to ration carbohydrates and then they could eat as much as they liked of other foods . |
| 27 | The trees had begun to loosen themselves of leaves as they had of golden pears , rough-skinned and scarred , a little while before . |
| 28 | Later , Jacqui met her kiss for kiss in their lovemaking ; even taking the initiative as they drank of each other 's bodies . |