Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] they [vb past] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So angry was he with her that he flung a handful of the stars after her , and they fell to earth with such force that they formed a row of waterholes across the country . |
| 2 | All he had intended to do was bridge the gap until they got a Chairman , or ‘ Chair ’ as he was supposed to call it . |
| 3 | It , just before we set off they came round in the car and they had a loaf for me . |
| 4 | The Slavophiles were critical of serfdom and political oppression but they sought a way forward which would draw on what they perceived as Russia 's peculiar strength : the social solidarity expressed in both the Orthodox faith and the traditional peasant commune . |
| 5 | ‘ I owe the club a great deal because they took a chance on me , but that does n't mean I will do anything stupid . ’ |
| 6 | Partly because the machinery of repression has been so all-embracing for so long , stifling any messages of opposition before they reached a platform , and partly because Romania has for so long been cut off from the mainstream of European thinking and political change , constructive ideas have been hard to come by . |
| 7 | It was only a short distance and Paula spotted the Colombi as they turned a corner . |
| 8 | Like a ride in a big dipper , he felt the floor pushing up at him , gathering speed as they climbed a wave . |
| 9 | ‘ The Colosseum , ’ Nicolo said , jamming the car into a lower gear as they approached a snarl of traffic . |
| 10 | Her pregnant mother had pulled the plough when they broke a part of their holding for wheat and vegetables , and Olga 's first memories were of carrying away stones from the furrows . |
| 11 | A FILM crew making a documentary about the end of the Second World War were threatened with a shotgun when they asked a man to move a parked car . |
| 12 | NOT CONTENT with Physics or Maths homework 25 years ago , a group of young men wanted something more than the usual pastime so they built a railway . |
| 13 | ‘ They came to an uninhabited hut where they made a fire to dry their clothes , for all of them were wet through to the skin , and an old sail was spread upon the bare ground , which served as a bed for the Prince , who was very well pleased with it and slept soundly . ’ |
| 14 | An experiment could be conducted by taking a largish group of electors , splitting them into two at random , telling half that the polls indicated one candidate would win and telling the other half that they showed a rival would win . |
| 15 | After retirement the jury returned to court and informed the judge that they had a problem . |
| 16 | These , under the Steward and Moray , were not to attempt ingress until they received a signal from the front party . |
| 17 | My , my sister- in-law , she w had to go in just before Christmas , had to rather suddenly she 's was diagnosed in the summer as having diverticulitis and they planned a sort of diet out to keep her really well and she was in terrible pain and they rushed her off for a scan and er she goes privately cos Vernon , I think actually his is BUPA that he 's in , he joined when it first came out and she wrote to me and she said oh I 'm , I just feel so lonely , there 's nobody to talk to , I 've got nobody to see or anything and she felt a bit cos she was n't really that ill |
| 18 | The Leighs worked in a cotton mill and they had a gramophone , which Mother thought was a wonderful thing . |
| 19 | Under its schedules , both police personnel and medical practitioners ( acting under the direct supervision of the War Office and the Admiralty , rather than the local constabulary ) were empowered to notify a justice of the peace if they suspected a woman of being a common prostitute . |
| 20 | Howarth has got a string quartet going at the Lab and they gave a concert there . |
| 21 | But from the same Grammar School period Edward recalls in detail ‘ the Sunday dinner anger , which became almost a regular thing , , with the boys tittering and refusing to discuss the topic of the morning 's sermon until they received a lecture or abuse from their father , at this ‘ almost the only meal as a rule which the whole family had together ’ . |
| 22 | She tells how the women came to the factory beaten by their husbands and how some were scared to be downgraded in their work because they feared a beating from husbands who would think that they were holding some money back . |
| 23 | The incident was highlighted on Sky TV and spotted by the club 's committee when they watched a video of the clash between John Devereux and Keith England in the same match which resulted in both men being sent off and banned for two games . |
| 24 | Eddie had just got back from work when they had a row in the kitchen . |
| 25 | The visit to Seaworld was a favourite with many children who shrieked with delight as they got a soaking from Shamu the killer whale . |
| 26 | This brought Saints out of their shell and they forced a series of corners that a scrambling Celtic only just survived . |
| 27 | Then he told them he had no money and they called a policeman . |
| 28 | The draftees of the regulations foresaw the possibility of misgivings with the inspector 's investigation so they incorporated a number of safeguards which would , they hoped , ensure fair play . |
| 29 | And he also rejected claims by the policeman and a civilian that they witnessed a soldier being struck by other military personnel to make it appear he had been struck by the car . |
| 30 | I liked the way the usherette threaded the torn half-tickets on to a long string so they made a branch of monkey-puzzle tree . |