Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plays they performed enacted the events of the Bible , from Creation to Doomsday , divided into separate units known as pageants . |
| 2 | The Royal Dutch Navy made a detailed survey of the whole group of islands immediately after the eruption , and the maps they produced revealed the full extent of the effects of the explosions which had reverberated round so much of the world . |
| 3 | For the most part , the activities they followed confirmed the earlier divisions , and what the Tudor and early Stuart gentry and yeomen did was to exploit much of the local potential more fully . |
| 4 | The committee of inquiry found that many of the teachers they met held the view that Afro-Caribbean pupils ‘ inevitably caused difficulties ’ and were unlikely to achieve in academic terms , although they had high expectations of their potential in sport and the expressive arts ( Rampton , 1981 , p. 13 ) . |
| 5 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 6 | Not all the results were of the same high quality ; nevertheless the music they arranged reinforced the choreographer 's design by giving the plot atmosphere , local colour , continuity and flow as well as giving the dancing its rhythmic vitality , emotion and mood . |
| 7 | Perrier invited consumers to nominate the restaurant they believed deserved the title of Best Restaurant of the Year in late 1990 . |
| 8 | The dust they raised filled the room . |