Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , if they failed to arrange for a minor repair in the science labs and a pupil was hurt as a result , they might be guilty of a safety offence . |
| 2 | It was n't the custom , really , but the landlord and his wife , Mr and Mrs Wallace , were friends of the Brittons ' and knew Uncle as well , so they agreed to lay on a nice tea . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 6 | Middy snuggled up closer to him , his shadow a small lump on Lowell 's shadow on the ancient walls , so that they seemed to merge like a grotesque pregnancy . |
| 7 | Within seconds they 'd piled into a battered Mercedes and were fighting their way out on to the airport road . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They began to engage in a ritual practice of the Caucasian gypsies . |
| 10 | They began selling at an early age , certainly before 10 years of age . |
| 11 | Occasionally they contrived to smuggle in a small bottle of crème-de-menthe in response to Utrillo 's pathetic pleas . |
| 12 | Once they decided to work to a particular time-scale , they carried on regardless , ’ says Crisp . |
| 13 | Clients who have gone in for Public Issues often rue the day they chose to sell through a licensed dealer . |
| 14 | The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services . |
| 15 | They occur in many other lakes and rivers in Africa , but have never lived in the present Victoria ( though they did live in a prehistoric lake on the same site ) . |
| 16 | Following negotiations with the police most of the settlers left Silwan , abandoning all but one of the houses which they said belonged to a Jewish family evicted during riots in 1930 . |
| 17 | The point was to fire fast to persuade the French that they had run into a strong picquet line . |
| 18 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 19 | The Tree Spirits were discernible now ; it was as if they had broken through a thick veil , through a smothering black curtain , and they were recognisable as distinct forms , moving slowly in and out of the forest . |
| 20 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 21 | She was brutally assaulted by her brother 's friends , as they had turned into a frenzied mob . |
| 22 | The van jerked forward but he managed to keep the engine from stalling and within seconds they had turned into a sharp bend and the grotesque crater was no longer visible in the rear view mirror . |
| 23 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 24 | Her brother Mr Bhatti , of Lawrence Street , Dundee , told Lord Osborne that under their faith a couple were not considered to be married until they had gone through a religious ceremony before a Mullah . |
| 25 | They had to go through a long interrogation , and their answers were not found to be satisfactory . |
| 26 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 27 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 28 | They had accepted their invitations only in order to disrupt the proceedings , as they had done on a previous occasion in 1953 . |
| 29 | Railways , Spearman went on , had the power to break local strikes , as they had done in a recent coal strike in the United States , and the operating officers and freight-yard superintendents took on a military-style power . |
| 30 | However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born . |