Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To do this they had to trespass on the plaintiff 's land . |
| 2 | It had not occurred to Nutty how accustomed they had become to the steamy swimming baths and the seventy-five degree water . |
| 3 | The first to come , and one of the most interesting from Pumfrey 's point of view , was Tom Tedder , who sprawled easily in his chair , seemed as little tensed up as it is possible to be when involved in a murder case , and told them all they needed to know about the teachers ' attitude to the school 's star pupil . |
| 4 | Ahead of them was a little church not unlike the many they had passed on the long route-march from Etaples to the front . |
| 5 | In comparison with those they had passed along the way , it could be considered small . |
| 6 | The researchers infected cells with both the plasmid and the virus , and relied on similarities between the vaccinia genes in the virus itself and those they had put in the plasmid to ensure that occasionally , the two would recombine . |
| 7 | The revised tenancies and those they replaced differ from the regulated tenancies under the 1977 Rent Act in that there is a weakening of security of tenure and other rights , and most rents will be set at market level . |
| 8 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 9 | By 1875 they had moved around the square from no. 2 to no. 24 — a rather conservative little change of home which was maybe typical of them . |
| 10 | But some companies made it clear yesterday that if possible they wanted to remain in the City . |
| 11 | The framers of the American Constitution also had these objects in mind , but on top of that they had to provide for the desire of the thirteen colonies to be united for some purposes only and to remain independent for others . |
| 12 | At first they had taken to the Underground because it was warm , later for other reasons . |
| 13 | But first they wanted to see to the drainage at one particularly bad spot , where a stream was running down the path . |
| 14 | The women clucked and tutted as one by one they turned to stare at the tall fourteen year old . |
| 15 | Somehow or other they had to get beneath the certainty and feed the seeds of doubt . |
| 16 | At last they decided to withdraw from the square and were on the point of departure when they were suddenly surrounded by a group of tough-looking soldiers , helmeted and armed . |