Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electrodes were so positioned that current flowing through them caused a particular pleasure . |
| 2 | The Regent diamond of 410 carats recovered from Golconda in 1701 was soon acquired by Governor Pitt , grandfather and great-grandfather of men who between them despoiled a great part of the French empire . |
| 3 | Balancing between them took a great deal of agility . |
| 4 | Perhaps in the matter of excitement Davis and Baker between them had a special way of making the blood dance , but ( listen to the Overture , for instance ) Nelson achieves a fine clarity of texture and , even more than Davis , he makes the phrases ‘ speak ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ This is a matter of considerable significance to us as three of the five districts in West Yorkshire ( Bradford , Kirklees and Leeds Metropolitan Districts ) have between them received an annual average of about £10 million over the last five years — a substantial figure . |
| 6 | The look that passed between them showed a certain amount of respect but a little mistrust as well . |
| 7 | Immediately below them lay a wide pool and here the water was almost still . |
| 8 | Ahead of me lay an historic mission : to circumnavigate London using hired transport , and return within 80 days . |
| 9 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
| 10 | One of them saw a tarnished wristwatch lying on the beach and decided to play a practical joke . |
| 11 | Instead , most of them saw a steady confirmation of their existing position . |
| 12 | At last , a streak of orange light appeared to the east ; and gradually the white sea in front of them became an immense expanse of fertile green , while the purple ocean behind turned shimmering white . |
| 13 | Two of them carried a big straw basket between them , which they hoped to fill as they visited all the houses in the village . |
| 14 | Now the coach party hammered there , too ; three of them carried a titanic roll of paper , like a stage battering ram . |
| 15 | All of them carried an innate fear of not being offered fresh terms for the following season . ’ |
| 16 | MANILA ( AP ) — Ferdinand Marcos ' followers petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to allow the late president 's body to be returned from Hawaii , and one of them threatened a huge protest if the tribunal turned them down . |
| 17 | Only a few were dressed in European suits , but each of them cultivated a wispy goatee , the mark of the Annamite man of consequence . |
| 18 | At first some of them had a deceptive brightness , but their abominable quality soon revealed itself and decay rapidly set in . |
| 19 | None of them had a coherent programme , or strategy designed to bring the mass movement into power . |
| 20 | Each of them had a ten-to twelve-column-inch splash on the front page , with a picture of Dr. Briant standing glowering at the desk in the board room , and each of them carried leaders about Briant and his project . |
| 21 | One of them had an intestinal perforation and required surgery . |
| 22 | ‘ The Espoirs went to Zimbabwe this summer , and I understand that several of them had an outstanding tour . |
| 23 | ‘ Everybody knows the two of them had an almighty row that evening , ’ she went on . |
| 24 | Only about a third of them has to be what you 'd really call meat , and quite a lot of them had an enormous amount of fat in them . |
| 25 | They were all aspiring entrepreneurs , but so few of them had an original idea . |
| 26 | Now we do n't need so many generals and governors , they let some of them read a few books . |
| 27 | In January 1991 there were sightings reported off Dubai and — as in 1983 — off Qatar , while at Safaniyah in the Saudi offshore oilfield one of them struck a well platform . |
| 28 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 29 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 30 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |