Example sentences of "they [vb past] [noun] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for the children of the unskilled workers , relatively few of them secured entry in the first place , and even those tended to do badly : only one in twenty survived to enter for two subjects at A level . |
| 2 | Some of them supplemented wages from the great estates with tiny holdings , where they were lucky enough to have them . |
| 3 | The lawyer , the printing works foreman , and Beryl had each of them offered facets of the old man 's character which suggested not only a cynical vein of humour and a streak of malice but a disdainful attitude to at least some of those closest to him . |
| 4 | Two of them took part in the Spanish Civil War . |
| 5 | Nearly all of them took place in the central and southern parts of the island , where the Sinhalese are in the majority . |
| 6 | They got a bi they got tinsel around the aerial |
| 7 | DALIAN ATKINSON was given a new role at Villa and responded with two stunning strikes as they laid claims to the Premier League title . |
| 8 | They became part of the symbolic political language through which the riots were understood by policy makers and by popular opinion . |
| 9 | This highlights another paradox of Soviet experience — the fact that the main elements of the growing economic crisis were known to Soviet officials and Western specialists long before they became part of the public political agenda on either side of the iron curtain . |
| 10 | Around the mid sixth century the Greek cities of Asia Minor had come under the control of Croesus of Lydia , and when he fell to Cyrus of Persia in 546 they became part of the huge Persian empire . |
| 11 | Then suddenly they became part of the social background like film stars or professional football players . |
| 12 | They became masters of the pelagic realm , possibly swimming in schools like their distant relatives the squids . |
| 13 | They even attacked art — especially ‘ modern art ’ — but while they made fun of the pre-War Cubists , Expressionists and futurists , they borrowed and transformed many of the principles and techniques of these earlier movements . ’ |
| 14 | They walked to the edge of the tranquil water where Christina wrapped her long , slim legs around him , and they made love with the warm Caribbean lapping over them . |
| 15 | They made love on the cool marble floor of the terrace , and much later went to bed and slept in each other 's arms for the first time in months . |
| 16 | ‘ They used to take an interest in the way they made corn-stacks in the old days . |
| 17 | where they sold copies of The Red Letter , |
| 18 | CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy . |
| 19 | They distrusted predictions about the far reaches of the universe because it did not seem they could be tested by observation . |
| 20 | Wales .... 4 Italy .... 0 WALES 'S men extended their unbeaten run to seven matches yesterday when they defeated Italy at the National Sports Centre , Cardiff , writes Bill Colwill . |
| 21 | Owen was , they declared : Did they , one wonders , ponder on the words ‘ illustrious disciple ’ as they dismissed Marx to the second rank of the misled and misleading who had got their economics so grossly wrong ? |
| 22 | They designed kiosks for the British empire exhibition , Wembley ( 1924 ) , using simple shapes with colourful decoration . |
| 23 | Proudly , they maintained peace with the white men for seventy years , until finally they became forced to take up arms , the reluctant tormentors of the US Army . |
| 24 | In addition they maintained improvement in the haematological and biochemical indices studies . |
| 25 | They drew parallels with the Cultural Revolution because of its criticisms of Chinese culture . |
| 26 | They were ugly , they hurt her , they drew attention to the ever-increasing size of her feet . |
| 27 | Although they had formerly represented the true repository of Judaism , and although they provided Christianity with the very focus of its worship , they had now been disowned by Jews and Christians alike . |
| 28 | They provided hospices for the sick or for raising the innumerable foundlings . |
| 29 | They found conditions in the three-bedsit property ‘ quite unacceptable ’ and served notice on Hussein to undertake immediate repairs and maintenance . |
| 30 | Inside they found oil on the concrete floor and , imprinted by that oil , a tracery of tyre marks . |