Example sentences of "[noun prp] [subord] they [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both hardened internationals , they could n't cope with John Fashanu and Robbie Earle as they plundered the first and third goals for Dons . |
| 2 | For as they left England so they left the English language behind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Eileen said to Joe as they joined the hundreds of people streaming up Edge Lane . |
| 6 | Cruising Altitude passed the pacemaking Floyd as they crossed the final hurdle and he looked all set for a comfortable victory . |
| 7 | But in France if they did the same thing they would be talking in French down their machine . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | Who on earth would want a holiday in Wales if they had the slightest knowledge of the climate ? |
| 11 | ‘ Well , ’ said Henry as they reached the tiny office where he kept a telephone , ‘ I must go and teach my next pupil . |
| 12 | A couple of years earlier Wayne had come into conflict with director John Huston when they made The Barbarian and the Geisha in 1957 . |