Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] they [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 For as they left England so they left the English language behind .
2 They really should have outpointed the New Zealand XV in the first match at Hamilton for they outplayed the New Zealanders for rather more than half the game .
3 Its heritage goes back to when ‘ The Witan ’ , or the council of the Saxon kings , established the significance of Witney when they chose the then village as a meeting place in the 10th. and 11th. centuries .
4 Cruising Altitude passed the pacemaking Floyd as they crossed the final hurdle and he looked all set for a comfortable victory .
5 Crinkled quiffs of white foam spurted from the steel bows of the five-thousand-ton French passenger freighter Avignon as they parted the warm , tropic-blue waters of the South China Sea .
6 ‘ I 'm hoping the doctors 'll have broken the news about her husband and her daughter , sir , ’ said Camb as they crossed the black and white checkerboard foyer of the station .
7 ‘ Well , ’ said Henry as they reached the tiny office where he kept a telephone , ‘ I must go and teach my next pupil .
8 A couple of years earlier Wayne had come into conflict with director John Huston when they made The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1957 .
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