Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Last week , they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 tickets . |
| 2 | Last week they reneged on that agreement and settled on an allocation of no more than 1,000 ’ Rangers ' statement |
| 3 | They whispered to each other . |
| 4 | They whispered to each other that Tess was sure to marry that handsome gentleman . |
| 5 | The party of low taxes , the party of high taxes they failed on that . |
| 6 | They failed on both counts . |
| 7 | Here they attempted to persuade consumers not to install additional appliances which would overload the mains : where they failed in this , breakdowns inevitably followed . |
| 8 | Silver-blond and red-head , they clung to each other occasionally as long-time friends , and spoke to Nolan , cousin of one , ex-fiancé of the other , with an odd mixture of dread , exasperation and compassion . |
| 9 | They clung to each other , speaking in desperate whispers , sharing the shock and terror of a recently confirmed test result . |
| 10 | When he came to bed , they clung to each other , cold and clean and silent , feeling that even these small movements were overheard . |
| 11 | They clung to each other for support . |
| 12 | They clung to each other almost fearfully as though they believed that , in the whole of this alien and bewildering world , only the two of them had any real substance ; as if all else was an illusion . |
| 13 | Bilek , Moravcik and Skuhravy look like giving their attack a cutting edge , they qualified without much difficulty and if the team takes its cue from the state of the country anything might happen . |
| 14 | It is known that the Lombard King Alboin brought his army and then his people on to the plain in 568 , and that they met with little resistance as the Goths had almost vacated the area by that time . |
| 15 | They met with little armed resistance ( which must have been a relief to Louis , who had little confidence in his own military skill ) , and gained considerable incidental profit : the king 's person was seen in an area unvisited since the reign of Louis IV ; the counts of Nevers , Chalon , and Mâcon were brought to heel ; Burgundian lords appealed for the king 's mediation in their quarrels ( he also sought theirs ) ; the count of Forez , hitherto only a vassal of the Emperor , declared his most important castles to be held as fief of the crown of France , the first step in the integration of Forez into the French realm . |
| 16 | Ministers of all denominations testify to the fact that renewal and growth began as they met with those in their churches burdened by God to confess their spiritual apathy or impotence and to seek his power to heal their defeated lives and divided churches in order to become the people he intended them to be , not only in the Church , but in the world . |
| 17 | When William Burnes died at Lochlea in 1784 , John Tennant lent a horse to help to convey his body to Alloway for burial in the grounds of Kirk Alloway and memories of Alloway and the ruined kirk must have been recalled by both families when they met on that day . |
| 18 | Lionel Luyt told me that John quickly tagged on to him when they met during those Johannesburg seasons , and was eager for discussions which went on , after performances , into the small hours . |
| 19 | They gazed at each other like a pair of fools . |
| 20 | They gazed at each other in silence , then Penry touched a finger to her lower lip . |
| 21 | So that they got to all go off at once . |
| 22 | Lets face it they get reasonable crowds every year , and last year they got to both cup finals … hence the money for Walker . |
| 23 | They got in each other 's way at the window . |
| 24 | Martin Foyle and Lee Nogan , dear oh dear , they got in each other 's way when there was an empty net in front of them . |
| 25 | Our task is to try and make sure that two and two come out at five and the members get a better deal from the new union than they got from either of the amalgamating unions . |
| 26 | There was general agreement that current initiatives to meet those problems were ineffective , that there was little consultation with the people of West Belfast and that frequently they amounted to little more than cosmetic exercises . |
| 27 | Even so , they amounted to some ten thousand men , a gallant and glittering array of knightly chivalry and armoured strength . |
| 28 | When we look specifically at machinery imports from the West , we find that at their peak in the mid-1970s , they amounted to some 5–6 per cent of equipment investment . |
| 29 | But I would have thought that one lot of er papers would either have gone to the archives office or er been retained in the Advertiser if they amalgamated at some time . |
| 30 | So they lived through another day — together in the same house , but more separately than ever before . |