Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] they [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nationalist protestors from Kurdzhali arrived in Sofia ( the capital ) on Jan. 3 to petition the National Assembly , their numbers swelling on the following day to around 10,000 as supporters joined them from several parts of the country . |
2 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
3 | Strains developed over the migration of the ‘ vyezzhye belye Kalmyki ’ to Russian territory , since the prince of the Teleuts regarded them as traitorous subjects and demanded their return . |
4 | Be wary of some people in high places whose duties involved them in prolific correspondence . |
5 | Prince charles presented them with three accolades — including his special patron 's award — at the National Training Awards organised by the Department of Employment . |
6 | But the Australians imported them in large numbers . |
7 | Their exploitation of this recently opened path aroused jealousy among the knights , one of whom refused to answer a charge levelled against him by the Erembalds in the court of Charles the Good , on the ground that his accusers ' lowly social origins barred them from comital justice . |
8 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
9 | Perhaps the Minoans regarded them as fearful intermediaries — essential but frightening go-betweens . |
10 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
11 | EUROPE 'S showjumping horses ended their longest ever journey to a Volvo World Cup Final — from Frankfurt , Germany , to southern California — in spectacular fashion , when United States ' fighter planes escorted them into two Miramar military air bases . |
12 | The French peasantry 's revolutionary energies were soon dissipated and channelled into supporting Napoleon Bonaparte 's military regime after the abolition of the aristocracy and land reforms turned them into small property-owners . |
13 | Moreover , the self-defined small scale nature of these projects placed them in marked contrast to the first seven Urban Development Corporations announced in Britain in the 1980s in London Docklands , Merseyside ( see chapters 2 and 3 ) , Sheffield , the Black Country , Teesside , Tyne and Wear and Greater Manchester , all of which received over £100 million in financial support . |
14 | Under the Poor Law many children found themselves bound to either masters or mistresses who exploited them and at times treated them with great cruelty , while our own age has learned with shame of the extent of ill-treatment even within the family . |
15 | Of the priests we know little , except where their transgressions brought them to episcopal notice . |
16 | I could n't even manage the children — friends took them for odd days . |
17 | Then other living organisms provided them with further opportunities , and through symbiosis ( a mutually-dependent state of living together ) they created , finally , animals . |
18 | Inspired by the show , she dreamed up a tale of a Christian boy who blackmailed Muslim girls by luring them to an apartment where hidden video cameras filmed them in indecent postures . |
19 | In her book Beautiful Theories , the late Elizabeth Bruss made a revealing examination of the way in which Barthes 's different translators carried out their task ; she shows that whereas Heath did not disguise the difficulty and opacity in Barthes 's texts , his American translators turned them into smooth narratives . |