Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 2 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 3 | But Jim , the chap who lives next door to them came over the other night to collect a pound from me as my contribution to the er , sign on the lamppost saying that this is a watch neighbourhood watch area , now it 's |
| 4 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 5 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 6 | One of them parked across the narrow track leading away from the building ; it acted as a barrier . |
| 7 | Even the Committee felt low , not one of them arrived at the next schedule meeting ! |
| 8 | The two of them arrived at the broken gate of a house even more rackety than its peeling neighbours . |
| 9 | Since the government decision in favour of the THORP development , Sellafield and its operations have been the subject of regular protests , many of them organized by the local group Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment . |
| 10 | A group apart , the links between them welded by the sheer weight of society pressing down upon them . |
| 11 | In Britain from the 1820s all attachés had to have a letter of appointment signed by the secretary of state ; and from 1815 a number of them began for the first time to be paid . |
| 12 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 13 | Koreans serving in the police force were often extremely brutal in their conduct and it is hardly surprising that they were a target for revenge after the termination of Japanese rule ; many of them served under the American occupation and in South Korea from 1948 and vengeance continued to be taken at periodic intervals for years to come . |
| 14 | Six of them originated from the same bar on Corfu — 500 miles from the island of Kos where Ben first vanished . |
| 15 | The three of them looked at the dark-dressed figure of their brother , his head back , as he stared at the huge oil painting of highland cattle hanging on the broad stone wall of the fireplace , and he answered , ‘ I do n't know , Reggie . |
| 16 | Western liberals and the Left once again found their credulity stretched in defence of the one state which most of them saw as the only bulwark against Nazi Germany . |
| 17 | ‘ If we can keep them contained for the first half then we 've got a chance of pinching a couple of goals . ’ |
| 18 | Education provided a good example of the accommodation feminists had to make in regard to scientific theories of sexual difference and the ambivalence many of them felt about the whole issue . |
| 19 | The most serious charges against them related to the fraudulent transfer of public funds estimated at more than 2,300 million francs CFA . |
| 20 | ‘ Those people — and thousands of them went through the proper procedure — will be contacted later this month and given the opportunity to purchase their tickets for the next home game . ’ |
| 21 | Four of them went to the new Department of National Heritage . |
| 22 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 23 | Something they cultivated after the Iraqi Gulf War . |
| 24 | An attempt to contact Sparrow Force was made by Bernard Callinan , with a Dutch native soldier , whose experience as a schoolmaster and whose knowledge of Portuguese , English and Malay were invaluable in translating the polyglot languages of the different people they met on the westward journey . |
| 25 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 26 | ‘ Old Mr Misfortune ’ found consolation for his latest failure by marrying his 17-year-old bride , on the very day they met for the first time , 2 September 1719 . |
| 27 | They met for the first time at the weekend as their two-week-old girls were swopped and handed back to the right mothers . |
| 28 | They met for the first time on May 13th 1794 , a date which had been specified in the statute . |
| 29 | They met for the first time at the Liverpool Adult Deaf and Dumb Society in Princes Avenue on the 25 April 1890 . |
| 30 | Paul 's touching letters stood out and they met for the first time shortly before he was posted to the former Yugoslavia . |