Example sentences of "they [vb past] [vb pp] [pron] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which reminded her that they had done nothing at all about the shooting . |
| 2 | They were also asked to describe the major characteristics of the groups in which they had found themselves at each point in their time on the terraces . |
| 3 | Laidlaw had been detained by the police only hours after Barak 's murder and although they had interrogated him at regular intervals every four hours , trying to break him down , he had managed to stick to his story . |
| 4 | They claim that this age is far worse than previous ages , and they go on as though they had learned nothing at all from history — and yet history is the great teacher of life ( magistra vitae ) . |
| 5 | Although they had made high mileage cars look like low mileage ones , they had sold them at high mileage car prices . |
| 6 | Medieval town planners , as many cities further north bear witness , would have provided a more sensible plan if they had provided one at all . |