Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] [prep] the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 2 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 3 | They longed for the hats and shoes they saw in the Galeries Lafayette . |
| 4 | Malcolm Crosby 's men will be trying to make their survival mathematically certain against Swindon tonight , and if they can produce the gritty determination they showed at the Goldstone Ground and eradicate silly defensive errors any lingering doubts should soon be over . |
| 5 | BRITISH yuppies yearning for that charming little place they saw in the Dordogne last summer have probably never heard of Compagnie Bancaire . |
| 6 | The worst meeting they had with the Shah was the last . |
| 7 | In summary , it would appear that the non-respondents as a group differed from the respondents mainly with regard to the more negative feelings they had towards the Oxfordshire scheme . |
| 8 | For a week they stayed at the Lime Street cottage , where Sara was already doubting the wisdom of taking part in the German expedition . |
| 9 | Bass now has only two auditors — Ernst & Young and Touche Ross having cut the ties with Arthur Andersen , the auditors they acquired with the US acquisition of Holiday Inn . |
| 10 | On the morning of Sunday 27 August they arrived at the Friedrichstrasse Station in the heart of the German capital . |
| 11 | Your fingerprints were found on the spent shell cases they found on The Sandhopper 's deck . |
| 12 | Some bombs they dropped on the RAF camp |
| 13 | In July 1937 , when the war was one year old , the Republicans briefly seemed to gain the upper hand in an offensive they launched on the Madrid front , at a village called Brunete ; but the Nationalists rallied and the Republicans were unable to chalk up even a partial victory . |
| 14 | Unless the MPs who spoke to TODAY reporters yesterday were lying , Government Whips used the tactics of the Mafia to get the majority they wanted on the Maastricht vote . |
| 15 | According to a recent survey conducted by two lecturers in law at Liverpool University , 82% of the 160 doctors they questioned in the UK admit to subjecting their patients to entirely unnecessary drugs , blood tests or X-rays . |
| 16 | They have already lost a great deal of the autonomy and self-determination they possessed under the Stormont regime . |
| 17 | We cut out a Fife man and made him tell us the plan for the men they dropped on the Forth . |
| 18 | Hereford got the win they needed in the FA cup . |
| 19 | On the one hand they strengthened the polytechnics ' resistance to the institutional review element in the CNAA 's procedures , but on the other hand they confirmed for the CNAA the value of gaining intelligence about the overall health of the institutions . |