Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To achieve this they concentrated on the whole spectrum of damaging events in an area and explored their aggregate impact . |
| 2 | The Chilean party , in alliance with Radicals and Socialists ( who had sprung up to challenge the Communists in 1932 ) won a popular Front victory in 1938 , and in 1946 they collaborated with the Radical party to win an election ( this time without the Socialists ) and participated briefly in the government . |
| 3 | He asserted that the good people of Inverness owed all they had to the previous conquest and occupation by Cromwell . |
| 4 | That was indeed an honour after all THEY played with the great man himself . |
| 5 | Mrs Nicholson meanwhile was doing rather well in her beautician business and when Jack was five they moved from the less-salubrious surroundings of Sixth Avenue in Neptune to Fifth Avenue in Neptune City which was , as Jack recognized years later , a slightly better position for a young boy . |
| 6 | He was four or five lengths away from the next plane when one by one they angled into the quilted greyness . |
| 7 | In particular they battled over the key question for secondary education — the age of transfer and the nature of secondary school organisation . |
| 8 | Next they went into the main building where part of the reprocessing cycle took place . |
| 9 | Ceramic floor tiles gained tremendously in popularity when holidaymakers saw how attractive they looked in the Continental settings . |
| 10 | At last they came to the topmost ridge of the mountain , and there lay a great field of cloud ahead of them . |