Example sentences of "they [adj] [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I recently asked eleven experts on RE from widely differing backgrounds what they each saw as the major priority for RE . |
| 2 | They all went to the local comprehensive — which I wanted to but , because I passed my 11-plus I got sent to the grammar instead . |
| 3 | They all went into the nearest back-court , a circle was formed , the contestants stripped to the waist , then faced each other . |
| 4 | I expect they all went in the Second World War . |
| 5 | If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents . |
| 6 | They all came from the same supplier . |
| 7 | And do you think they all came from the same kind of background as yourself or were they more working people ? |
| 8 | They all looked at the dark square and saw that it was hardly a manhole , more of a childhole . |
| 9 | They all looked at the spreading crystal world . |
| 10 | They all knew about the big house in its own grounds and the genuine Yankee jeep his father drove . |
| 11 | The best man was driving them to the airport for their flight to Greece , and Ellie made sure she was right in the middle of the crowd as they all surged down the front path to wish them bon voyage . |
| 12 | They all met for the first time on the show . |
| 13 | They all met for the international meeting at Salzburg in 1908 , having corresponded from 1906 onwards . |
| 14 | In 1991 Salter , Sneddon , Rogers , Davy , Turner , Todd and Jennings were joined by Andy Breakwell , Kathy Barfield and Sarah Gould , and they all finished in the top 20 . |
| 15 | After she had a hot rum toddy in a steaming , warm tub and showed Josh the trap marks on her leg , they all sat around the wooden kitchen table to eat vegetable soup , local Stilton cheese , and a salad of walnuts and chicory , followed by gingerbread that Clare had made with Mrs Gooden 's special recipe . |
| 16 | They all worked about the one squad you know . |
| 17 | No clear distinction was made between the temporal and spiritual privileges of the Church ; they all stood on the same level , enforced by the same sanctions , guaranteed by the same authority , reflecting the same divine ordering of the world . |
| 18 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 19 | In 1770/71 Lagrange set about analysing the various methods then known for dealing with the general equations of degrees 2 , 3 , 4 and he found that they all depended on the same general principle ( see Section 5.2 ) . |
| 20 | They all bathed in the reflected glory of having a sister barely into her twenties who was going to travel to the other side of the world . |
| 21 | But Mr. de Lacy submits that both it and the previous cases which it applied are clearly distinguishable from the instant case because they all rested upon the critical circumstances that the lender or creditor in each case left it to the principal debtor to obtain , in such a way as he thought fit , the execution of the document . |
| 22 | He knew he was n't going to regret the move from the moment they all assembled for the first rehearsal . |
| 23 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 24 | They all started in the same place as the Beatles … the Cavern Club in Liverpool . |
| 25 | They first appeared in the seventeenth century and ceased to be built after the middle of the nineteenth century , when the advent of portable threshing machines meant that ricks could be built and threshed in the fields and field barns were no longer needed . |
| 26 | They first appeared in the Old World during Sigmar 's time , when a whole band crossed the Worlds Edge Mountains and conquered the other Orcs that lived in the hills to the northwest of Stirland . |
| 27 | In that country they first appeared in the mid-thirteenth century , groups of men who , under the leadership of enterprising leaders , contracted ( hence the name condottiere which they were given ) with individual city states which lacked their own armies but had the funds necessary to pay them , to guard their territory and maintain a measure of order . |
| 28 | Miss Fergusson had maintained , when they first stood before the haloed mountain , that there were two explanations of everything , that each required the exercise of faith , and that we had been given free will in order that we might choose between them . |
| 29 | Dancing masters gradually developed the classical technique from European folk dance which they first changed into the elegant steppings of courtiers in the palaces of Italian and Spanish kings and prelates . |
| 30 | But before that , ‘ unfortunately , their domestic life was n't very happy and there was a period in their lives when they both lived in the same house but did n't speak to one another . |