Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , having settled their men and their stewards and their womenfolk , if they had any , they moved eastwards to do the same for themselves and for others along the course of the Forth , and to drift , with an inquisitive eye , through the hills and croplands that lay southwards in Northumbrian hands . |
| 2 | They 'd even discovered the unlikeliest things in common — a liking for potted shrimps and piano concertos , an aversion to veal and Wagner . |
| 3 | I suppose they must be , thought Lydia , shrugging , and wondering also whether the modern tendency , which was American in origin , to tell everybody everything before they 'd even got the first olive off the cocktail stick had percolated as far as here . |
| 4 | They assembled quickly to hear the brief set of orders that explained their respective tasks in the battle to come . |
| 5 | For that reason it is our intention to present , for all of our authors , explicit evidence that they did indeed meet the formal diagnostic criteria for psychotic illness , as used by psychiatrists . |
| 6 | They had also spent the previous six weeks familiarising themselves with the country , getting to know especially the lie of the rivers , which would become torrents after the heavy rain that fell in the afternoon and at night during many months of the year , while the same river beds higher up the hills could be dry at times . |
| 7 | She realised that they had just joined the main motorway heading north-west out of London . |
| 8 | The Iranian authorities countered that they had repeatedly asked the Turkish government to present evidence for such claims . |
| 9 | There it was held that those persons who had access to inside information were required to observe the ‘ abstain or disclose ’ principle ie they had either to disclose the inside information which they held or abstain from trading . |
| 10 | Although they had formerly represented the true repository of Judaism , and although they provided Christianity with the very focus of its worship , they had now been disowned by Jews and Christians alike . |
| 11 | Ahmed Deedat told thousands of Muslims who filled the Albert Hall in central London that if they had only shown the non-Muslim majority that Mr Rushdie had grievously insulted the Queen , Margaret Thatcher and all white women in The Satanic Verses , then the author would have been condemned by all of society and the book banned . |
| 12 | One can only feel for the Jesuits : when their Order was dissolved in 1777 , they had only enjoyed the finished church for two years . |
| 13 | They had then walked the short distance to Park Lane , her hand in the crook of James 's arm . |
| 14 | Even if they had never contemplated the smallest act of resistance themselves , the notion of FAKINTIL in the hills with their leader had offered the possibility of freedom one day . |
| 15 | They had almost reached the feeding-place walking in the trees beside the ride carefully , trying not to step on sticks . |
| 16 | But as soon as he got his glasses back on again , they had all smoothed the hazy , unfocussed grins off their faces and seemed intent on their own affairs . |
| 17 | Willow warblers sang meandering cadences from the trees and a vehement sedge warbler vocalised from a reed bed , letting us know that once again they had safely survived the perilous crossing of arid desert and squally sea . |
| 18 | The Americans used to be so arrogant that they refused even to allow the Panamanian flag to fly . |
| 19 | Miss Honey was still hugging the tiny girl in her arms and neither of them said a word as they stood there watching the big black car tearing round the corner at the end of the road and disappearing for ever into the distance . |
| 20 | The July 9 resolution annulled the mandates of 15 deputies , mainly from the Equal Rights ( Ravnopraviye ) faction , claiming that from May 1990 to August 1991 they attempted unlawfully to replace the Latvian government and eliminate the drive towards Latvian independence . |
| 21 | They attempted also to rationalize the burgeoning supplementary benefit scheme by developing a stronger rule-based structure , and introduced a housing benefit scheme . |