Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 2 | The cyclists received a marvellous reception from the staff of JM Birmingham at 6am on completing this most challenging stage and they provided us with an excellent cooked breakfast . |
| 3 | But in practice positivists almost invariably worked uncritically and unquestioningly with the products of the existing legal definitions ; by default , they endowed them with an objective status . |
| 4 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 5 | They took me to an enormous wall built of Pelasgian blocks . |
| 6 | Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them . |
| 7 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 8 | But they greeted her as an old friend . |
| 9 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |