Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 2 | They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair . |
| 3 | Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 . |
| 4 | Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time . |
| 6 | Erm some additional sidings , mills over here , some additional sidings were put in , in the early part of this century , and they came off the this track erm just this side of on the left hand side of the level crossing , erm and went er up to a dead end er just along in the right hand side , er over now towards where factory is . |
| 7 | They came from the same country . |
| 8 | These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop . |
| 9 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 10 | I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse . |
| 11 | they came as the same they came in the same colour mu thing round them we in the red letters saying what they are . |
| 12 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 13 | " Philip so honoured him " , wrote Roger of Howden , " that every day they ate at the same table , shared the same dish and a- night the bed did not separate them . |
| 14 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 15 | As for the women , he said , they suffered from the same sort of things — depression and sometimes guilt . |
| 16 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |
| 17 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 18 | It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ They arrived at the same time ! ’ |
| 20 | Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting . |
| 21 | Through the Declaration of Ilo , the two presidents committed Bolivia and Peru to implement the terms of the Gran Mariscal Andrés de Santa Cruz bilateral framework agreement , which they signed at the same time , for economic co-operation between the two countries . |
| 22 | Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged . |
| 23 | They worked in the same office , they ate their lunch together , they went down the Lane on Sundays and the Roman Road on Fridays . |
| 24 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 25 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 26 | This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both . |
| 27 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 28 | They put on separate roadshows as they appeared at the same event for the first time since Mr Major 's statement in the House of Commons . |
| 29 | They spoke at the same time . |
| 30 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |