Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Probably in all innocence they began to use the word Baal to describe the Lord God . |
| 2 | Despite being easy trips they did have a valuable effect on crews . |
| 3 | The girls came into school discussing the merits of a programme they had seen the previous evening , a ‘ religious ’ programme , Meeting Point , which had been about pre-marital sex . |
| 4 | As an estimate of the drift of religious change and of what was acceptable to local people , the tactics they adopted proved a hideous disaster whose memories have scarred the country to the present day . |
| 5 | Not your fault they had to hire a bloody crane ! |
| 6 | As a result of the unprovoked attack by Magharba they decided to raise the stakes , and drew up a new list of candidates who were all Zuwaya , and all possessed of doctorates . |
| 7 | In other words they needed to experience the ‘ sanctuary game ’ before they could cope with a ‘ breaking of sanctuary game ’ . |
| 8 | She crunched through toast and marmalade while Rory had a shower , then said they had to hurry down to breakfast , she 'd need the bulk to make sure a hangover did not develop from the great variety of booze they 'd sunk the night before . |
| 9 | come Saturday they 'd rearranged the whole ward and they put him on a W R V S air bed , he were in heaven on this bed , I said why the fuck could n't you have done that earlier ? |
| 10 | ( Sometimes this involves a quasi-symbolic element : for example in moments of danger they remember a bear they had seen a cave by the sea ( pp. 79 , 95 , 102 , 179 , 182 ) . |
| 11 | Lesser folk were aggrieved by the foresters ' interference with their rights of common in the Forest ; the Forest officers for their part reported that privileges they claimed had no warrant . |
| 12 | Startled by the systematic destruction of the force they had helped the Iraqis to build , the military critics have since grown bolder . |
| 13 | Within two months they had made a first attempt to get a suitable building site — part of the field in which the new Presbyterian School was to be built . |
| 14 | Within twelve months they had bought an old but clean and respectable grocery van to take around the roads of the South London suburbs . |
| 15 | But in their clumsy efforts to break the steering lock they had broken the steering itself . |
| 16 | They tied Maxim to a wooden chair -just like the scene they 'd watched a dozen times at the cinema — in the loading bay of a deserted warehouse . |
| 17 | No wonder they had let the army take over this area ; it was worth nothing for farming . |
| 18 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 19 | The village they found lined the ancient Akeman Street , the Roman road which linked St Albans with Cirencester . |
| 20 | The Chinese lunch they 'd had the secretary phone out for lay on the coffee table like a child 's experiments with putty and paint and designer ooze . |
| 21 | By the time England won another Test they had played a further thirty , plus two that were rain-restricted and one washed out altogether . |
| 22 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 23 | With great regret they decided to abandon the project in view of the ever-increasing cost . |
| 24 | Her parents , William and Nellie Tanner , had been forced out of the terraced house in Page Street , the home they had brought the family up in , when her father 's employer George Galloway , who owned the house , decided he was going to make changes . |
| 25 | Nottinghamshire police have released a recording of a girl they believed called the Kingsmill Hospital at Sutton in Ashfield claiming she 'd had a baby . |
| 26 | It was an exchange they had had a hundred times during childhood at the end of some day 's adventure in remote fields . |
| 27 | At Manhattanville they stopped to water the horses and to refresh themselves with a drink of lemonade from an inn . |
| 28 | At Carole 's insistence they had climbed the long metal ladder which led inside from the roof of the nave to the top of the tower : Henry went first , Amaranth second ; by some accident of fate , David followed on her heels , leaving an indignant Carole to bring up the rear . |
| 29 | It 's a good job they 'd got the second book off to the publishers . |
| 30 | They 'll continue their campaign to win back the security they 'd worked a whole lifetime for . |