Example sentences of "[coord] they [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 2 | Then Peter and John placed their hands on them and they received the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 3 | Some staff added other minor errors or disagreements but it soon emerged that some departments did not think that the report was fair and they criticized the general conclusion relating to their department . |
| 4 | Then the moment came when the tow line was released and they savoured the eerie feeling of riding the rising thermals . |
| 5 | On and on they flew until day turned into dusk and they reached the big supermarket on the edge of the town . |
| 6 | Well they was an old cargo boat , that were n't like a naval boat , they do n't call it now , they do n't call a naval boat a tramp , well the other ones cos they 're faster and th th the old tramp , tramps it was like an old tramp on the road and erm because we used to go very slow , well th the Japanese after the war , they bought these old ships up , we loaded them with scrap iron and they took the whole lot over to Japan , and cut the whole ship up scrap iron . |
| 7 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 8 | There God dwelt among them and they saw the visible manifestation of his presence . |
| 9 | And they saw the Old Bill nicking us and letting the coons go . |
| 10 | Crawford and the rest of the cast began rehearsals with Gene Kelly and choreographer Michael Kidd in February 1968 , and they began the ninety-day shoot on 15 April . |
| 11 | Dong did as he was told , and they dropped the lifeless body into the shallow impression in the ground . |
| 12 | He took careful aim with his second barrel at a smaller buffalo that had begun circling in dismay , and they heard the dull thud of his successful shot echo clearly across the plain . |
| 13 | And they heard the Prime Minister pay tribute to them when they sat in on Question Time . |
| 14 | However , boys will be boys and they enjoyed the fresh air and the sport of fishing , in fact the boys had been known to fish after dark at the newty pond which was very illegal ! |
| 15 | and they knocked the old farmhouse , they had a house and the farmhouse , they had a farmhouse you know and |
| 16 | The deviance of ‘ mouths ’ was in this instance amplified by direct provocation by the police , in part because one member of the force wanted some ‘ skulls ’ , but also because they were elevated into ‘ gougers ’ : the ‘ lip ’ was typical of that of gougers and they fitted the social class from which gougers come . |
| 17 | Every week their sleep was rationed on two nights to between 0 and 7.5 hours , and they spent the subsequent days being tested in the laboratory on vigilance and adding tasks . |
| 18 | ‘ After the first series I heard from somebody who was at Sandringham last Christmas and they said the young Royals really enjoyed it . |
| 19 | Alan come to me yesterday afternoon , er and they said the rubber suckers was missing of the end of the sucker spouts that picks the bag up . |
| 20 | to walk round the bread shelves twice and they were right on the bottom shelf when I eventually tracked them down and they had the hot cross buns on the shelves . |
| 21 | Sampson and Clarke certainly did not see ‘ eye to eye ’ and they had the utmost contempt for each other as cricketers . |
| 22 | Cos erm , apparently erm Trevor was working for Bettaware for Avon and they had the Social Services round to say that I hear that your working and they do toy parties and they said no , I mean there not making a living out of it , it 's was just |
| 23 | And they had the whole machinery negotiations fixed you see . |
| 24 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 25 | The response of the Governors was swift : they announced on 14th March 1975 that the School would go " Independent " and they launched The Stopfordian Trust to provide the sort of bursaries which would be required . |
| 26 | For librarians the title smacked of the days when running a library " was undertaken by a lecturer " in his spare time " ( compare the teacher-librarian in most British secondary schools ) and they resented the possible implications that running a library was not a full-time job . |
| 27 | There was a good atmosphere and they got the right result . |
| 28 | They went round the back door and got to John Smith and they got the chief whip and got the chairman of the party and had a rerun of the vote two weeks later . |
| 29 | That blasted off a window and they discovered the deadly load . |
| 30 | Graham 's appearance brought her out of her reverie and they walked the short distance to the station , where she approached the information desk to ask for directions to the stationmaster 's office . |