Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them lived with a nervous expectation that it could happen to them . |
| 2 | Some of them lived in a rented house , while the Taiwan Ten took over the garage and yard . |
| 3 | In my own section , towards the middle of the cloakroom , I saw to my horror two lines of girls staring at me and giggling , and as I came near , one of them asked in a sarcastic voice where I came from . |
| 4 | Most of them moved towards a similar view of the pacifist tendencies of modern capitalism to that expounded by Norman Angell . |
| 5 | These are ancient divisions of the territory , recognized for centuries past as distinct pays , but you are unlikely to find them entered on a modern map , so I should apologize for introducing what will seem like obsolete names . |
| 6 | Houses to accommodate them rose as a compact group south of the churchyard , and the church itself was soon ambitiously transformed to provide the setting for an elaborate cycle of daily worship . |
| 7 | One of them dropped into a formal curtsey , revealing both her cleavage and her undergarment , and he smiled grimly . |
| 8 | Most of them believed in an immaterial reality too . |
| 9 | Reports are coming in , some of them confirmed by an independent observer , of large-scale destruction in Bosnia , not only of mosques and monuments ( see The Art Newspaper No. 19 , June 1992 , p.1 ) but also of places of learning , together with the books , archives and manuscripts contained therein . |
| 10 | As the name suggests , the tomatoes are dried in the sun to make them dehydrated like a dried fruit . |
| 11 | One of them shaped like a mobile telephone crashed into a high voltage power line cutting off 500 homes . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you dare beat me up , you nasty nasty man , I 'm a policeman ! ’ one of them shrieked in a mocking falsetto . |
| 13 | Labourers were found in the docks , railways , factories and domestic spheres , many of them employed on a casual basis . |
| 14 | So when the team presented three options to the review panel on April 22nd , it was no surprise that one of them looked like a truncated version of a familiar space station , Freedom — with laboratory modules attached to a girdered ‘ truss ’ that carries solar panels for generating power . |
| 15 | Like the bats , the pterosaurs had membranous wings stretched between highly modified arms and ‘ hands ’ and the fore part of the legs ; unlike the bats some of them grew to an enormous size and the front support for the wing was provided by only one finger of the hand , grotesquely extended . |
| 16 | Several of them went to an acting class run by Jeff Corey , where other aspirants included James Coburn . |
| 17 | Six-year-old Michael Smith and his parents were spotted by a passing yacht as they clung to a tiny buoyancy bag in darkness . |
| 18 | These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) . |
| 19 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
| 20 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 21 | His earliest rape , of a 19year-old girl , happened the previous year after they met via a mutual friend . |
| 22 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 23 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 24 | They met in an undistinguished office block just off the Euston Road , two floors ofwhich were used as secure neutral territory for committees and meetings between Government depart-ments who would lose face by visiting the other fellow 's wigwam . |
| 25 | They got into a big car and drove away . |
| 26 | One produced a gun before they got into a yellow Ford Escort and drove off . |
| 27 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 28 | You know , sort her meals out and then come back home that 's why she wants them to move in with her , cos they got like a little self contained flat there |
| 29 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 30 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |