Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numbers of them became administrators or held important posts . |
| 2 | They went around the world with backpacks and no money , and they left home and lived together without getting married , and many of them became superstars when they were still only in their teens . |
| 3 | My mum gave me got loads of them as well , I 'll eat the ones my mum gave me . |
| 4 | so those few that entered most of them got prizes and it was three police forces that entered and they all got awards . |
| 5 | Most of them led lives of exemplary moral rectitude . |
| 6 | A study of peasant families in the Cochabamba area of Bolivia revealed that 90 per cent of them owned radios ( Ortega 1982 ) . |
| 7 | Among them limped women carrying everything they had left , stuffed inside plastic buckets and bags balanced on their heads . |
| 8 | If one of them found lice it must be a tragedy for all of them … they must comb each other 's hair , help each other when they were sick , live as a community , in short . |
| 9 | The lands to the north and east of a line joining these two houses had in the ninth century been conquered and to some degree settled by pagan Scandinavians , who had destroyed the existing monasteries and several of the bishoprics , and such evidence as there is suggests that the Christianity practised within them retained aspects upon which the stricter kind of churchman would have frowned . |
| 10 | There were various suggestive pieces of evidence , for example from the volume relations of gases — two volumes of hydrogen combine with one of oxygen , which suggests H 2 O — but all of them posed difficulties of a theoretical kind . |
| 11 | They are thought to be the Devil 's companions and to tempt men to death or illness by offering them bewitched foods . |
| 12 | They landed on a sandy , gravel beach ; above them rose cliffs which ran along the entire coast . |
| 13 | Behind them rose plumes of steam lit from below by the crackling death of his amps . |
| 14 | I only discovered that late as well when I became friends with John at college . |
| 15 | ‘ I fail to see the relevance of this , but yes , I should say that Glastonbury and I became friends . |
| 16 | I became friends with Juliet , , because she understood me , + I could talk to her about my opinions quite openly : she is very understanding in that way . |
| 17 | I 'm not really sure how I became friends with the boy , but he also has quite a good personality , + I can have a good laugh with him . |
| 18 | At one time , and I became adversaries over the selection of polio virus strains to be used as oral vaccines . |
| 19 | I asked friends , over a cup of tea . |
| 20 | I asked children to think of a witches ' stew and this is what they suggested to put on a sign on the wall : |
| 21 | Making the most of a buyer 's market , I asked dealers for their advice . |
| 22 | During a visit to Brigade Headquarters I overheard Officers discussing the situation in our area . |
| 23 | On each trip I overheard snatches of the bar-room conversations and could hear the louder buzz of continuing upheaval along in the lounge , and I thought that after I 'd satisfied everyone in the dining room I might drift along to the far end with my disarming little tray . |
| 24 | Asked whether his made things a little awkward between the actresses , Leigh was dismissive : ‘ It did n't affect us at all . |
| 25 | In fact let's say you hired a small engineering company , and I manufactured widgets , and I needed to manufacture one thousand widgets a week by four o'clock on Friday . |
| 26 | Home again , I wasted hours trying to make sense of things , and did so eventually . |
| 27 | But , like most other women , I wasted years of my teens and twenties feeling I would be happier if I was thinner . |
| 28 | And my wife and I endured weeks of farewell parties with relatives and friends . |
| 29 | I made friends with a girl in a similar plight : Sophie had twin boys the same age as Tom , and her husband , Jack , ex-R.A.F. with a handlebar moustache , was working for his exams in chartered accountancy . |
| 30 | The third month I spent in Brittany at Sable d'Or ; there I made friends with an elderly , bearded fisherman called Pierre . |