Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This means that British Coal has to shut down a large amount of its production capacity , and this they attempted last autumn . |
| 2 | After this they employed Welsh builders and had everything sent over with them including paint , sandpaper and Polyfilla . |
| 3 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 4 | I am suprised they agreed personal terms . |
| 5 | They deny that on various occasions unknown between May 1989 and October 1991 they committed indecent offences and raped the sisters in houses in Glasgow . |
| 6 | We think it 's sad they brought this case after the police declined to prosecute , and based it on evidence provided by an anti-hunt political pressure group |
| 7 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |
| 8 | By 1831 they controlled 7,000 spindles and , adding new mills and steam power , were to employ 510 hands by 1845 . |
| 9 | None of the arguments , she thought , held up to any serious analysis ; at best they provoked people into thought about housework , at worst they antagonised large numbers of women and hostility in all men and women who worked in the labour movement in any way . |
| 10 | In 1952 they released one group ( identified by the removal of the right pelvic fin ) at Issaquah Hatchery , and the other ( which had their left pelvic fin removed ) at the University Hatchery . |
| 11 | I found out that the captain and two of his men , all Americans , were n't on the ship last night , so I 'm sure they killed poor John Openshaw . |
| 12 | There was the glance over the shoulder now and again to make sure they kept some distance between them and the white proletariat which erupted in new housing estates , bringing property values down . |
| 13 | Well I think what Mr is really saying is that the Conservative round Dorset , in er , the first sort of , I do n't know , six decades of this cen this century were rather more sensible than the Conservatives who ran Wiltshire at the same time , because they made sure they acquired some assets they could flog for development , and put themselves in this happy position , which the ones in Wiltshire had obviously failed to do . |
| 14 | The Department of Health said tests would begin today on the vaccines to make sure they met British standards . |
| 15 | All these people and all this musical history of Manchester , all these people together and , although I 'm sure they had each other in mind , actually facing these people is very odd . |
| 16 | ‘ My heart misgave me when I saw his livery at Parfois , for Isambard is close and confidential with him , and sure they had some business between them that bodes us no good here in Wales . ’ |
| 17 | Girls of various shapes and sizes paraded in front of the boys while she told them the prices so that they would be sure they had enough money on them . |
| 18 | On March 9th they found another depot , but there was not much food . |
| 19 | When Adam Peters and Ben Watkins changed their band 's name to Sunsonic they maintained this virtue to release a couple of refined , ambient , floating singles . |
| 20 | And in fact , all they played all night . |
| 21 | I and the girls , that 's , that 's all they got fifteen shillings because I was in the office I got a pound and mind you we slept in , we had all our food , you see , and we had to all sleep in . |
| 22 | arrested six of them all they found all bits and bobs off hundreds and hundreds and thousands of pounds worth of cars , and four wheel drives they specialise in and off to the continent with it . |
| 23 | At five-thirty they made gentle love ; then Felicity ran a bath . |
| 24 | In 1930 they scored 132 goals , five more than the first team in their record Championship year . |
| 25 | It is not clear when his experiments began , but an affidavit made out by Sadler and his assistant Guy Green states that on 27 July 1756 they printed 1,200 earthenware tiles of different patterns in six hours , and that the process had taken upwards of seven years to perfect . |
| 26 | At a stocktaking in October 1869 they had 421 cups , 521 saucers , 104 plates and 127 yards of white cotton . |
| 27 | While their relationship managed to remain friendly they saw each other less and less in the years to come . |
| 28 | In 1838 they had 38 hand looms in use , as well as two power versions . |
| 29 | Saudi they had some sort of electronic torture chamber |
| 30 | Rigby reckoned that the referee , who had the casting vote , was sure to side with Harlequins given that they had six players in the England side for the following week . |