Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two centuries they had faced Celtic attacks . |
| 2 | As princely chanceries evolved across West Francia , their output was welcomed by the population at large because the set formulae they employed offered some assurance of authenticity . |
| 3 | In the centre the earth had been laid bare and was scored with long scratches and furrows , and there was a narrow , regular hole , about the same size as one of the carrots they had carried that morning . |
| 4 | At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves . |
| 5 | From a small vase , she took two of the daisies they had picked that afternoon and wound them strategically in Portia 's hair . |
| 6 | For Republicans this was a particularly rewarding set of results ; in recent decades they had enjoyed considerable success in presidential elections , but the victories of Eisenhower and Nixon had not , with the fleeting exception of 1953 — 55 , been flanked by success in Congressional elections . |
| 7 | Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story . |
| 8 | None of the watering places they visited showed any signs of fresh tracks , and no animals were sighted in the first hour . |
| 9 | Never once in all the years they had known each other had Chambers gone further than a grudging admission that she had a certain flair for bookkeeping . |
| 10 | For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state . |
| 11 | She remembered the difficulties they 'd had repairing Starlings after the war , when you could n't get a brick or a plank of wood , not even if you was royalty ; and she remembered comforting Nell as each granddaughter left home . |
| 12 | If the Romans wanted systematic information about the Celtic lands and institutions they had to recruit Greek scholars . |
| 13 | In two cases where father and son were both working shifts they had arranged alternate shifts thus allowing uninterrupted farm work . |
| 14 | For several hours they appeared to make little progress ; they were traversing a barren region of fine sand and yellowish clay , broken only by a few stunted , prickly bushes . |
| 15 | Within minutes they had roused sleeping children from four of those homes and driven off with them into the murky winter dawn . |
| 16 | In minutes they stood facing each other across a few feet of upland grass , the fresher horses of Jinneth 's escort stamping impatiently . |
| 17 | The women who sat beside a single basket of herbs , or wild mushrooms they had gathered that morning in the dew , high in the hills , were tanned so dark they might have washed in walnut juice . |
| 18 | They decided to upgrade their horses by using foreign stallions , but as they were unable to buy Arabian stallions they decided to use English Thoroughbreds instead . |
| 19 | At the sixth meeting members agreed that ‘ as a result of their examination of the first six courses they had established certain standards for assessment and were now able to make an objective judgment upon the courses submitted ’ . |
| 20 | Oh Marks and Spencers when I buy those croissants they 'd got hot cross buns on sale . |
| 21 | Nor could they ever again find the paths they had taken that day . |
| 22 | Once they had made their inferences they tended to use any manpower they had to follow them up . |