Example sentences of "they also [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 They also looked at waste minimisation and treatment processes .
2 In London Whigs and Dissenters not only organised counter-demonstrations , where they burnt effigies of the Pope , the Pretender and Tory defectors , but they also engaged in vigilante activity , as they sought to suppress the activities of the Jacobite crowds .
3 They made slow progress and as there was no reason for haste they soon made camp again and this time were particularly careful to conceal themselves and their horses among the trees well away from the ride ; they also arranged for watches through the night which they had not done before .
4 They also raised for consideration the possibility of reducing the period beyond the end of the accounting year in which solicitors must submit their report from 6 to 3 months .
5 They also met at Daly 's Club , College Green .
6 They also appealed to holidaymakers not to be put off the resort by the disaster .
7 The slits in the sides of their throats which had originated as filtering mechanisms , were walled with thin blood vessels so that they also served as gills .
8 They also came across Matisse sketches and two fake stamps imitating those of well known art experts .
9 Port Talbot had a large and vital steelworks , and moonlit nights almost always brought the Luftwaffe , but they also came in daylight .
10 They also remarked with astonishment a sort of combat between God and her without being able to determine whether God was more occupied in seeking in the secrets of his wisdom the means of exercising her by suffering than she was disposed to suffer for his love ; for she showed an incredible avidity for crosses and an invincible patience over her trials and over every affliction which Almighty God sent to exercise her love and fidelity .
11 They also asked for footpath improvements to protect pedestrians and other measures to minimize disruption .
12 They also had in mind that the platform could be removed , leaving the warehouse in substantially the same state as it was before it was installed .
13 Some of them were closely connected with those already in existence but they also sprang from advances in science and technology .
14 They also possessed in skipper Gerrie Mans a nuggety customer blessed withe a wicked turn of pace .
15 They also objected to Craxi 's alleged domination of the government .
16 They also discussed at length the issue of aid for the Soviet Union .
17 At their meeting in a London Methodist centre for homeless and rootless people they also talked about Diana 's recent marriage problems .
18 On the joint initiative of France and West Germany , they also set in motion a process expected to lead by the end of 1990 to the holding of an intergovernmental conference on EC political union .
19 They also varied with respect to the loci of changes envisaged , and the relationship between the project initiatives and the past , current and proposed developments in the school 's curricular , extra-curricular and infrastructural dimensions .
20 After 1950 the newer electronics offerings appeared in double form — they had close ties to defence and public service , but they also appeared in Europe as forceful standard-bearers for the free market approach .
21 On now to Barry Humphries ' autobiography , More Please ( Penguin ) ; Carol ( second wife of Walter ) Matthau 's memoirs Among the Porcupines ( Orion ) ; Ranulph Fiennes ' search for the city of Ubar ( the Koranic version of Sodom and Gomorrah ) , Atlantis of the Sands ( Penguin ) : A N Wilson 's Jesus ( Flamingo ) , coming at the same time as Barbara Thiering 's Jesus the Man ( Corgi ) , as they also did in hardcover ; and Miranda Seymour 's much-praised life of Ottoline Morrell ( Sceptre ) , £25 in hardcover and so welcome as a £7 or £8 paperback .
22 They also called for pension assets to be kept separate from company funds in the wake of the Daily Mirror scandal when Maxwell stole Pounds 400 million from his pensioners .
23 They also complained about unfairness , but there was no willingness to look at the charges or to have proper consultation with local authorities to see how they and the Government could work together to improve the general standards of our beaches .
24 Not only did Devon beat them , they also lost to Wales .
25 Not only did they monitor landings at the wharf , they also sifted through refuse dumps to find the remains of butchered dolphins , to estimate catches in previous seasons .
26 The maternal words ‘ If you do n't study hard , you 'll end up on the check-out counter at Tesco 's ’ had had , if not the intended effect , the result of causing Camille and her friends to look down on shop assistants , bank clerks and bus drivers : for more recondite reasons of their own they also held in contempt estate and travel agents and people who worked in advertising .
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