Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 2 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 3 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 4 | In some years in the 1430s wages failed to keep pace with high prices , but they rose again in the next two decades . |
| 5 | ‘ Piece of cake , ’ Nails agreed as they lined up for the first time on the pool edge . |
| 6 | So you know , these traditions die hard but I m but things had to change and they changed really after the Second World War . |
| 7 | He said they played well in the first half , but then things went wrong in the second half , when Orrell had a bit of luck in scoring after a knock on . |
| 8 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 9 | They came out in the second half a much more committed side and proceeded to alter the whole complexion of the game with two goals from Paul Doney and Andrew Milne . |
| 10 | Liverpool St Helens ' fall continues , a 9–6 defeat at Blackheath leaving them clamped to the bottom of Division Two just a year after they dropped out of the first division . |
| 11 | They holed up for the next two days in Leatherslade Farm House … at Oakley twenty seven miles away . |
| 12 | Since they turned up on the first day of term wearing headscarves , their teachers , supported by the headmaster , have refused to teach them unless the girls remove the offending headgear . |
| 13 | To all of them , Fry is Barnet , and without him there , few will have good reason to stay at Underhill , particularly as they alleged publicly for the first time yesterday that chairman Stan Flashman had physically threatened them . |
| 14 | Although average 1989 wage increases , at 9.5 per cent , ran well ahead of output , they slowed down in the fourth quarter , possibly helping to reduce the budget deficit to about 75 per cent of its planned level . |
| 15 | They died out in the eighteenth century as a result of deforestation and hunting . |
| 16 | United nearly drew first blood , but they fell apart in the second half . |
| 17 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 18 | They went ahead in the 30th minute when Tommy Gaynor skipped away from a couple of tackles and let fly from 25 yards : no sign of gratitude there for Eoin Hand , Huddersfield 's manager , who had helped along his fellow-Irishman 's career in the early days at Limerick . |
| 19 | How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty . |
| 20 | The interviewees ' subjective evaluations of the service provided by the Drugs Council are intimately related to the reason why they went there in the first place . |
| 21 | The late arrival by 13 minutes of three of their key players left Peterlee with too much work to do at Consett where they went down in a first division game by 91 points to 58 as they were left wondering what effect Ivor James , Gord Laing and Allen Quarmby might have had had they been there for the start . |
| 22 | So that they floated down to the next district and they would n't have to bother . ’ |
| 23 | They blended together from the first and there can be no doubt that Harry 's forceful play on the right wing was one of the prime reasons why Simpson was able to crack in so many goals . |
| 24 | The town 's smaller churches had either already disappeared by 1461 ( All Saints ' beyond the Bridge , St. Mary Bynwerk and St. Michael at Cornstall ) , or they continued up until the mid-sixteenth century ( St. Stephen , St. Andrew , St. Peter and St. Clement ) . |
| 25 | For the married couples the heartache would be centred round their children going off to boarding school , especially when they left home for the first time . |
| 26 | But they struck back in the last 10 minutes with tries by their flanker Andy Williams and scrum-half Howard Evans . |
| 27 | Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile . |
| 28 | They remained so throughout the nineteenth century and were not normally trusted with public office . |
| 29 | Denmead opened the scoring through Chris King and they held on until the second half when Campbell Wilson equalised for Good Sports . |