Example sentences of "they [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CLACTON knew they would be struggling at the weigh-in when they entertained Felixstowe in the first round of the Turner Cup and Inter Club Trophy . |
| 2 | Wales .... 4 Italy .... 0 WALES 'S men extended their unbeaten run to seven matches yesterday when they defeated Italy at the National Sports Centre , Cardiff , writes Bill Colwill . |
| 3 | Owen was , they declared : Did they , one wonders , ponder on the words ‘ illustrious disciple ’ as they dismissed Marx to the second rank of the misled and misleading who had got their economics so grossly wrong ? |
| 4 | That ai n't terrible they mentioned Swansea in the early sixties , but eh |
| 5 | That ai n't terrible they mentioned Swansea in the early sixties , but eh |
| 6 | Wigan will meet Oldham in the semi-finals of the Greenalls Lancashire Cup if they beat Swinton in the second round next Tuesday . |
| 7 | ‘ They played Ards on the first day of the season and wiped the floor with us in a 3–0 win . |
| 8 | Luton are likely to insist on recouping the £135,000 they paid Leeds for the veteran midfielder , even though Kamara turned 35 on Christmas Day . |
| 9 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 10 | As they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 11 | They lay Tallis across the dull flame . |
| 12 | Party night : This is an extremely happy night , hosted by the Mayrhofen Trio who are well known all over the world ; in fact , they represented Austria at the Olympic Games . |
| 13 | The visible sufferings of the Croats before they had travelled five miles were terrible ; their invisible sufferings , with the prospect of the long march before them , many barefoot and without hope of food before they reached Maribor at the earliest , must have been indescribable . " |
| 14 | Most Muslims and Croats in Bosnia believe the Yugoslav army , whose officer corps is now almost completely Serbian , is helping Serbs to capture territory in the republic in much the same way that they backed Serbs in the Croatian civil war . |
| 15 | Durrant , such an influence when they overcame Leeds in the previous round , had been struggling all night as the makeshift partner for Mark Hateley , in the absence of the injured Ally McCoist . |