Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The weekly-paid Greater Glasgow Health Board employees first discovered the bank 's mistake when they tried to withdraw money from cash machines . |
| 2 | At Dunstable , where the rebels were townsmen , they tried to restrict freedom of trade to within the borough , whereas the rural Essex rebels had followed precisely the opposite policy , and at Yarmouth the insurgents , drawn from the neighbouring countryside attempted to overthrow the rights of the municipality ( 98 , pp.41 , 108–11 ) . |
| 3 | ( Described by her adoring husband early in their marriage ) ‘ Her eyes seemed bigger to him , especially when she was just waking up and fluttered her lids several times in succession ; they were black when she was in shadow and dark blue in full daylight ; and they seemed to contain layer upon layer of colours , which were thicker in hue deep down , and became lighter towards the enamel-like surface . ’ |
| 4 | The closet to Ireland we came were a few students in college , and even they seemed to have interest in politics . " |
| 5 | And in the Bible it 's recorded that for example there are some cases where there was a big storm and they lost sight of land and all the sailors er promptly panicked because once they 'd lost sight of land they had n't got a clue where they were . |
| 6 | At the height of their affair they 'd made love from dusk to dawn on several occasions ; toying and teasing , stopping to bathe so they 'd have the bliss of working up a second sweat . |
| 7 | At what point McAllister 's fears finally disappeared beneath his loving patience , and they began to make love in earnest , neither of them could have said . |
| 8 | But then in seventy nine we had a hit at home with Bunch of Time and that as far as we were concerned was the end of the road you know to be successful in Ireland and then late eighty one , early eighty two you know they started playing Bunch of Time over here and it became a top twenty hit for us and that you know changed the whole thing round about and got us from say the pubs in Ireland into the concert circuit in England which we 've been doing ever since . |
| 9 | But I am sure that if someone found they liked doing chemistry at school they 're likely to find that they like continuing to do it at university , and vice versa . |
| 10 | Two additional patients seen by the recruiting centre refused to participate because they had restarted treatment with animal insulin and would not take human insulin again . |
| 11 | To score runs they had to put bat to ball — a realisation which came all too late . |
| 12 | It was the culmination of a remarkable advance by the SPD since the late 1950s , when they had lost election after election . |
| 13 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 14 | It was held that a jury could find that they had obtained money by deception , and not in return for chopping down the trees . |
| 15 | they had to take Contrast into account . |
| 16 | In April 1948 they had inherited work in hand from five CEB annual programmes with nearly 6000MW due for completion by 1950 . |
| 17 | For six years , on battlefields and in sieges , they had fought side by side and Harper , as soon as he heard of the new war , had waited for a word from his old officer . |
| 18 | In a session lasting until one in the morning they had discussed Crime in Society with that lucidity which is only achieved at somewhere above the 100 mg per cent level of blood alcohol and with the comforting knowledge that one does n't have to drive home . |
| 19 | She also found they had changed position during sleep and were now lying spoon-fashion , his arm draped over her , her back resting on his chest , her knees bent , her buttocks tucked snugly against him . |
| 20 | They had spent Hogmanay at home , welcoming the groups of people roaming the village as they came round . |
| 21 | But since the school term had started they had spent hour after hour in intense , ill-informed conversations about who was who in seventh-century Medina . |
| 22 | Like Hamlet , they had come face to face with its essential horror and absurdity . |
| 23 | She had a number of very enthusiastic friends who did the research and , and generally assisted her , but everybody gives her credit for , not only working in New York , but it actually was not Federal legislation , they had to work state by state . |
| 24 | When all had finished the leader asked if any wished to represent the other side , since they had promised freedom of speech . |
| 25 | Yes , casual work and when some of these casuals felt that they did n't want to stop there two days , they used to tell the authorities that they had got promise of work at , at Yarmouth and and could we go soon , you see . |
| 26 | They had brought Holly by car from the Lefortovo gaol to the train while Muscovites still slept . |
| 27 | Having been reduced to ten men after only 15 minutes , they continued to make chance after chance but went in at half time with only two goals of an advantage . |
| 28 | They wanted to see a battleship launched , they wanted to see Royalty in action , they wanted to see anything that was happening which was an event in the world , and so cameramen like George Albert Smith , and eventually George Albert Smith 's staff , would go out around the world , much as it would happen now but in a much simpler way , erm to make actuality pictures . |
| 29 | The official pronouncement was that they intended to fight fire with fire . |