Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The four of them lived in one house with the father of the two men . |
| 2 | The huge majority of them lived in rented houses in North Oxford . |
| 3 | They brought their families , some of them intermarried with time-expired soldiers who chose to settle here , too , and it grew into a real , life-and-death town , where everyone had a stake sunk so deep that when the legions started to leave , the locals still could n't get out . |
| 4 | The oldest tavern is the Vlissinghe , of which mention was first made in 1552 , but there are hundreds of little bars and cafes , many of them housed in olde-worlde buildings that have the Americans squealing with delight . |
| 5 | Few of them recovered from this experience . |
| 6 | The popes pressed their primatial and jurisdictional claims with impressive continuity in this period ; using every appeal to them made by Carolingian churchmen seeking to bolster their own positions ; making a bid to establish the authority of the papacy over the Bulgarian church ; declaring its sole power to establish a new archbishopric as at Magdeburg in 968 ; and developing the special relationship with the new Polish church at the turn of the first millennium which would ultimately bear fruit in a Polish pope at the turn of the second . |
| 7 | They stood together watching her , both of them moved by unfamiliar feelings . |
| 8 | Perhaps Isabelle had n't wanted them found at all , had intended her secret , whatever it was , to die with her . |
| 9 | Yorkshire , in common with East Anglia , has an ever-growing number of memorials , many of them dedicated to Canadian squadrons of Bomber Command . |
| 10 | Many of them fled to neighbouring parishes where the manorial structure was far weaker and poor immigrants were not prevented from setting up home . |
| 11 | During 1981–2 , twenty schemes of Unified Vocational Preparation were run in Wales , all of them sponsored by industrial training boards and the further education colleges . |
| 12 | Among the developing countries that participated in the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) , the median age at which women aged 25 to 29 years at the time of interview first married or entered a union ( i.e. , the age at which one half of them entered into conjugal union ) ranged from 13.1 years in Bangladesh to 23.0 in Sri Lanka . |
| 13 | Yet it was the poem that brought Wordsworth to the notice of clerics in need of sermon material ( his poems were used for this purpose throughout the last century , and I have heard them used in this ) . |
| 14 | He has two or three bidets in his house in Beverly Hills , but he has never seen them used in this way , with gusto . |
| 15 | They held them cradled across one arm and even with the bullet belts and all , they looked kind of funny . |
| 16 | I believe some of them visited at first , but it gradually dwindled — even Sonia and Paul Mason , whom she was very friendly with , stopped visiting . |
| 17 | Between December and March , according to the Bank of Mexico , foreign ownership of them rose by 12.9 billion pesos ( $1.4 billion ) , compared with 27.6 billion in all of 1992 . |
| 18 | ‘ Hey , Alec ! ’ one of them shouted from ten yards down the corridor . |
| 19 | There might be a third person wiser than either who is living happily and fruitfully in Bali , and remembers that both of them came with unrealistic expectations . |
| 20 | This stereo assault on them came from two men in late middle age , bizarrely costumed in matching Victorian evening dress . |
| 21 | You have to remember that some of them came from remote parts of Scotland , and the stores catered for them . |
| 22 | Three quarters of them came from three major US cities and 95% were gay men . |
| 23 | A batch of them came in this morning . ’ |
| 24 | Many of them seemed like tiny oases hemmed in by the alien rubber which overran the entire peninsula . |
| 25 | If the French should take them and see them directed to such noted men , they might take care to send them to them . |
| 26 | All of them played with such ferocious energy and skill that , for the next nightmarish seven minutes , she did n't touch the ball . |
| 27 | This keeps them informed about current art events , opportunities to exhibit , publish and employment . |
| 28 | The only faces that greeted them belonged to sundry dead abbots glaring down from dusky oil paintings . |
| 29 | Was it Gregory Peck or one of them walked into this studio in America , oh James Stewart was it ? |
| 30 | ‘ They persuade the poor and the low paid to play this game — leaving them exposed to massive fines and levies , ’ Mr Davies said . |