Example sentences of "[vb past] they [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 2 | It was still unthinkable to see him without his sketchbook and pencil , but of the hundreds and hundreds of drawings he made , he gave away many or sold them for a few francs . |
| 3 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 4 | you probably got them from the same place . |
| 5 | He withdrew all charges against them and immediately re-charged them with the same ones . |
| 6 | James Boswell , for example , often used them for the former , even occasionally , apparently , for the latter ; but never it seems with his wife . |
| 7 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 8 | One hour later we dissociated the nerves , cultured them for a few hours , and double-labelled them with an anti-BrdU antibody and an antibody that labels oligodendrocyte precursor cells . |
| 9 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |
| 10 | She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come . |
| 11 | Saw them at the same time , change of address . |
| 12 | According to the survey results , for the 12 months ending in January this year , 51 per cent of Britain 's smaller exporters increased their overseas sales over those for the previous year , a further 23 per cent kept them at the same level and 26 per cent reported a drop . |
| 13 | He was not looking forward to the events which he knew lay ahead of him that morning , but he dismissed all such thoughts from his mind : pleasant and unpleasant , most tasks were equal to him now : he viewed them with the same cold dispassion — so many tasks in each day , so many days in each week , so many weeks in each year . |
| 14 | He raised his sword and answered them with the same word . |
| 15 | We decided we did n't really like a lot of our clothes , so we replaced them with a few very simple things . ’ |