Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They owned this kind of enclave on the coast just outside Ajaccio — like a kind of tourist village — that 's where they kept the women , really , while they were away on business . |
| 2 | They got that sort of marble stuff . |
| 3 | They got all sorts of video erm tapes . |
| 4 | But I always remember they got this snap of whisky , the men got a nip of whisky and the women got a glass of wine when they come in . |
| 5 | Medical and veterinary faculties ( for which the competition was high , the numbers limited ) could lay down that candidates would not be considered unless they got high grades in physics , chemistry and biology at A level . |
| 6 | Well Charlton had to improve in the second half , and they did ; they got more men into mid-field , and United began to run out of a little bit of steam . |
| 7 | They hugged each other in silence for a long time . |
| 8 | Once these structures went out of use they became ready depositories for rubbish ( Jones 1979b ) , which can be difficult to distinguish from material reflecting the use of the building . |
| 9 | They proposed that they became Frankish vassals in return for protection against the expanding might of Abd-ar-Rahman the Ommeyad , who had taken over virtually the whole of Spain . |
| 10 | In 1990 the police made 1,410 arrests for cocaine of which 349 consisted of ‘ crack ’ whereas they made 2,321 arrests for heroin . |
| 11 | They made 11 arrests for drug possession , in an operation which the travellers described as heavy-handed and unreasonable . |
| 12 | It is not even clear whether they travelled in a Japanese or a Chinese ship : but either way they made secret contacts with Thakin friends who agreed to accompany them back to Japan . |
| 13 | During this three-year period they applied two dressings of farmyard manure and in the intervening year they applied an indigenous legume crop as green manure . |
| 14 | They produced fair quantities of copper and a little silver but , with a declining market for copper , could not cover the costs of installations and the travelling expenses of almost 150 Austrian and German craftsmen , a total which amounted to about £50,000 . |
| 15 | The experiences were interpreted quite differently , even though they produced remarkable resemblances in character . |
| 16 | It suggested that they shared some sort of secret , but of course they did n't , and when he rose and drained the last mouthful of his second cup of coffee before placing the delicate china cup back in its saucer she could only follow his lead , feeling certain that the relaxed mood was broken . |
| 17 | However , the five who rejected the appeal over the beating of a seven-year-old boy in an English boarding school stressed that that did not mean they condoned corporal punishment in principle . |
| 18 | In Kwangju itself , more than 100,000 people took to the streets where they fought running battles with riot police late into the night . |
| 19 | Either they operated some kind of taboo against such things , or else the technological relics of past civilisations were commonplace enough for them not to attach importance to a vessel which they must at least suspect to be in operable condition . |
| 20 | Thus they recommended greater use of shop floor premises , encouraged innovative work practices , emphasised the need for interpreters and encouraged the professional bodies to assist people from different ethnic and cultural backgrounds to become established as lawyers . |
| 21 | The British and American critics for whom the label is commonly used , however , can be distinguished by a common rejection of established modes of criticism and scholarship ( Empson and Leavis are sometimes included among them ) , and in the case of the Americans by the fact that they proposed alternative methods of criticism supported by well-developed literary theories . |
| 22 | They built makeshift barricades against tank attacks and were reported to be forming " defence units " . |
| 23 | The schools were quick to point out to us that they regarded these figures for truancy as an underestimate . |
| 24 | Most of them were now entitled to a ground job — ‘ flying a desk ’ — but they regarded this prospect with horror . |
| 25 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |
| 26 | They found alternative sites under house roofs , but suffered because of a superstitious belief that they were omens of death . |
| 27 | In fact , the number of left-wing activists was never large but their impact was out of all proportion to their numbers because they found new methods of protest which caught the imagination of much larger numbers . |
| 28 | ‘ Some hoped to be saved by going ; others did n't care if they were damned so long as they found new fields for profit and adventure . |
| 29 | Harvard 's experiments on bird tumours , for example , showed that viral insertion increased the expression of the myc gene — and Croce and his collaborators reported that they found increased expression of myc in Burkin 's lymphomas ( Science , vol 21 8 , p 983 ) . |
| 30 | They found many candidates for admission to the colony , and in 1922 Makarenko wrote of them : |