Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , they met among the monastery buildings at Melrose , on its river-girt promontory thirty miles inland from Berwick . |
| 2 | Together they gazed at the family portraits and Miss Hatherby pointed out the niceties of her forefathers ' dress — ‘ Folk would literally kill for shoe buckles of that quality . |
| 3 | So you can imagine that erm , er during the war of course , th they buses made because they made to the trolley buses made plenty of money because erm , labour was cheap and erm , you had the soldiers they were , lot of them , no other form of transport , petrol rationing and that , so the buses really did come into their own during the war . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't you want to get your overcoat ? ’ she asked , as they passed through the swing doors into the freezing outside air . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've all got to share , ’ she said , as they passed through the swing doors and found themselves looking down at the courtyard of the Museum . |
| 6 | They passed through the iron gates and the lodge , up the drive bordered with rhododendons , into the home park dotted with massive trees , to the grand sweep of gravel in front of the house . |
| 7 | I tried several places before they tumbled through the ballroom doors . |
| 8 | It reflects a conception of themselves inherited from the theory of their nature and place in a slave society , a theory they shared with the slave owners , and from whom they learned it . |
| 9 | They stopped beside the resting horses and looked down on the vale of Grasmere , a prospect described by great poets as an unsuspected paradise , depicted by painters as a jewel set in nature , sought out by the fashionable , protected by the sensible , evoker of sublime epithets , a small , ovaloid dream lake ringed by mountains proportioned in a measure which touched the intelligence as much as the eye ; if any one place deserves the description , then Grasmere Vale could claim to be in the very eye of the Romantic storm , in its beauty , its seclusion , its inhabitants and its capacity to draw in and draw out some of the greatest artists of the era . |
| 10 | Actual allocations to regions would gradually be adjusted over several years so that they moved towards the target allocations . |
| 11 | As the respondents were already in possession when they entered into the solus agreements , he concluded that the agreements were within the doctrine of restraint of trade . |
| 12 | At best , this will help to ensure that black workers remain in those employment sectors they entered in the boom years of the 50 's and 60's . |
| 13 | And that night when Linnet , face to face with her own reflection in her solitary looking-glass and the stark realization of how much it had really meant to her , had been unable to sleep Tristan had walked with her for hours in the manor garden , Gemma watching them from her bedroom window as they paced beneath the chestnut trees , engrossed , almost entwined , like turning to like , intent wholly and exclusively upon one another . |
| 14 | They changed in the changing rooms so thoughtfully provided and came out shivering in the cool evening . |
| 15 | Many councillors said they felt compelled to vote against the motion because they believed in the tenant farmers freedom of choice . |
| 16 | They drove through the lemon groves , where early workers were just arriving in a lorry to pick the fruit and load it . |
| 17 | As they came through the exit doors , Ricky looked wearily round for an Avis sign . |
| 18 | They came down the side streets in droves , like T.S . |
| 19 | ‘ First they came for the Jews , then they came for the communists , then they came for the trade unionists , then they came for me ’ , he repeats over a silky , mesmeric House groove , gradually adding a line each time , until he gets to ‘ and there was no-one left to speak up for me ’ . |
| 20 | Each pie chart shows the proportion of axes found in three areas , classified as to whether they came from the south Downs , Wessex , East Anglia or other mines ( after Craddock et al , 1983 ) . |
| 21 | As a result of nail sickness , the heavy Westmorland slates were regularly coming loose and crashing down with such force that they sliced through the lead gutters below . |
| 22 | The Big Four emerged from the second phase of headhunting : they developed from the search departments of the major management consultancies and accountancy firms . |
| 23 | What I thought of as mainstream cancers were called Carcinomas and they developed in the lining layers of the organs , such as the lungs , the bowels , and the skin . |
| 24 | They talked to the record companies . |
| 25 | As they talked about the war years and about what the future might hold for them both , Julia found herself liking Felicity more and more , although she was astonished at the freedom with which Felicity was prepared to confide in her about everything except her work during the war . |
| 26 | With the 401st Bomb Group continuing their dials missions , a brief respite cam e to Dan and his crew as Mary Alice underwent repairs , until just even days later when they flew to the marshalling yards south of Paris on June 4 . |
| 27 | They also had magnifying glasses to help them with the extraordinarily fine detail which they worked into the seal images : some lenses were found in a Middle Minoan tomb at Knossos . |
| 28 | During these weeks Seb rarely saw Carrie , except for a few hours each Sunday when they worked on the farm ledgers together at the Hankses ' cottage , and even here they were rarely alone . |
| 29 | Lastly , they brought round the collection plates … |
| 30 | At first , they went to the bond markets , especially offshore ones , raising dollars or Swiss francs and swapping them for yen . |