Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] [adj] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once constructed , sanctuaries and temples of whatever cult continued to receive votive offerings , and the richer and more prestigious they became the more emulation they aroused and the greater the inflow of precious substances . |
| 2 | Many scientists were well-read in theological writings , and thus when in 1875 Stewart and Tait produced The Unseen Universe they were not doing anything very much out of the ordinary . |
| 3 | Forster stood before the row of suits , hanging like a lie of petrified robots , and immediately recognised them for what they were ; instantly realised the enormous risk they might all be running , at least below decks . |
| 4 | He slouched back in the chair , his face drawn as if he realised the mortal danger they were now in . |
| 5 | She described the revelatory information they contained and said she was prepared to make them available . |
| 6 | One legend taught that if a man and a woman caught the same wave they would be joined in physical union . |
| 7 | When The Art Newspaper approached the British Museum they pointed out that they do not possess the Altar of Cybele , nor had they yet received a letter from Ronchey . |
| 8 | They were taken aboard the fishing boat , and they found the only word they had in common with the fishermen was Koepang . |
| 9 | When the police eventually found the abandoned truck they 'd assume the driver who 'd stolen it had been drunk . |
| 10 | In 1986 Clouse and Ferney described a manometric abnormality they termed rhythmic spontaneous contractions . |
| 11 | In 1989 Nixon and Koch described a manometric pattern they termed recurrent autonomous oesophageal peristalsis . |
| 12 | In 1989 Shay et al found a manometric pattern they termed cycling in patients with documented gastro-oesophageal reflux disease . |
| 13 | The Wisharts had to catch the 10.30am train from King 's Cross and to their amazement they found few people in the usual queue ; they had bought newspapers and magazines to read on the journey and when they found an empty compartment they settled down . |
| 14 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 15 | ‘ The Waits were , as always , compelling in their startling authenticity and deserved the enthusiastic attention they commanded ’ Yorkshire Evening Press |
| 16 | When early Christians adopted the pagan altar they did so to represent the table of the Last Supper and placed upon it a white cloth symbolic of the Shroud . |
| 17 | The German and French leaders told the Prime Minister they did not want to see him in the run up to the Edinburgh summit , which begins on Friday . |
| 18 | Before the Barcelona games Nike executives told the Daily Mirror they had lined up racing certs for a nationwide billboard blitz . |
| 19 | Obviously flustered , Mrs Lewis smiled shakily as she studied the cosy picture they made , sitting so close together on her sofa . |
| 20 | SECURITY chiefs and the SAS last night lashed a new book they described as a bomber 's guide to Buckingham Palace . |
| 21 | But William 's grandad reckoned the real reason they had it in for him was because of the name . |
| 22 | But as they cuddled the dead baby they realised that it was n't their child . |
| 23 | By now my courage had failed and I had to be helped up the steep , wooden steps , the executioner 's assistants whispering that if I made a good show they would make sure I would choke for no more than ten minutes . |
| 24 | Which literally timed every single activity they undertook . |
| 25 | Mind you the firm that was in there Blue Bag I mean they abused the bloody place they did . |
| 26 | Hidden beneath the abstruse title of ‘ Davni Chasy ’ , they discovered a rollicking number they knew better as ‘ Those Were The Days ’ . |
| 27 | Stirling had five jeeps with him , and as dawn broke the following day they arrived at the road . |
| 28 | Even here a word of caution is necessary , for although medieval writers employed the Roman calendar they sometimes reckoned the Kalend , None and Ide elements in reverse order ; so that , for example , 14 January might appear not as XIX Kal Feb but as Pridi Kal Feb ( prima die kalendarum Feb ) . |
| 29 | If the wind blew to the South-East they would be mostly in the U.S.S.R. … if the wind blew the other way they would extend well back up into Western Europe . ’ |
| 30 | Again when we went the last time they said that . |