Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on . |
| 2 | By formally merging , companies could continue their old practices within the merged company and take their chance if they got investigated by the MMC . |
| 3 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 4 | As thousands of troops and vehicles , many loaded with looted goods , struggled north on the main road to Basra , they became caught in a congested and disorganized column many kilometres in length , and were subjected to hours of ruthless attack from the air with cluster bombs and , possibly , incendiary weapons . |
| 5 | It was not that they went away , it was that they became interwoven with the strange elusive echoes and the memories that lingered in the vast dark Castle . |
| 6 | But with the coming of modernity proper , that is with industrialisation , what made the philosophies so potent was that they became embodied as a functional rationality . |
| 7 | They arc shown as a dotted arrow . |
| 8 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 9 | Swindon Town say they 're disappointed after a Football League Tribunal valued their former player manager Glen Hoddle at only seventy five thousand pounds , when they 'd hoped for a million . |
| 10 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 11 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 12 | They 'd staggered past a dozen rabbit-holes , calling down into the gloom , before they 'd heard Nooty 's voice answering them . |
| 13 | If only they 'd stayed in the little home on the train . |
| 14 | Being an intellectual or bourgeois did n't help that much in itself but those of their own journalists and professors they 'd sent to the remote prison island of their archipelago , Guru , had n't been systematically tortured ; just neatly excised from society for twenty years or the stay of their natural existences . |
| 15 | When they said goodbye they 'd embraced by the front door , a taxi waiting on the road outside . |
| 16 | The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year . |
| 17 | They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps . |
| 18 | Within seconds they 'd piled into a battered Mercedes and were fighting their way out on to the airport road . |
| 19 | How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ? |
| 20 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 21 | Then they 'd returned to the stable and George had got back to the House about midnight . |
| 22 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
| 23 | that , that spoilt the course or were not relevant and they 'd forgotten about the relevant bits . |
| 24 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 25 | They 'd passed beyond the deciduous woods , and the trees on either side were conifers — larch , spruce and pine . |
| 26 | They seem driven by a Teutonic determination to rack up as many airline meals as possible . |
| 27 | ‘ They look organised with a good defence , and are playing with a great deal of confidence . ’ |
| 28 | They stand condemned by the very tenets of their religions unless that religion is in itself a perverse and cancerous development which will in time kill what gave it birth in any case . |
| 29 | The principal transitions from one phase of people 's life to another were thought of as crises and as a result the community to which they belonged assisted with the appropriate rituals . |
| 30 | They get paid through the National Dock Labour Board . |