Example sentences of "of they [vb past] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although they both tried to smile still , neither of them failed to notice the past tense she had used for the word ‘ love ’ . |
| 2 | This year four of them agreed to set a low common external tariff instead . |
| 3 | Benny was the only one they knew without brothers and sisters , most of them had to share a Mam and a Dad with five or six others . |
| 4 | When the children of Israel were camped in Moab near Jericho , many of them came to worship the local god , Bael-Poor , and there was some mixing with the Moabites . |
| 5 | On the contrary many of them came to inspect the " little blue customs ship " and stayed for refreshments . |
| 6 | Sean looked at Ruth and they started to laugh again , but since neither of them wished to waken the sleepers they stifled their mirth . |
| 7 | I wo n't give my children the satisfaction of burying me until there is only one of them left to perform the ceremony . ’ |
| 8 | But if appointment as a lord of session was major patronage at any period in Scotland 's history , there was in the eighteenth century considerable demand for any post which could make use of legal education , for there is some reason to believe that the country was oversupplied with lawyers in view of the desperate efforts which some of them made to obtain a salaried post , no matter how minor . |
| 9 | The next hour passed amiably , by which time the two of them began to feel the effects of the day . |
| 10 | Neither of them asked to see a girl called Evelyn Harris and Jackie guessed correctly that her letter had gone astray , though he never said as much to her . |
| 11 | Well only just to really , actually all Mr Mr has er said , and just one other bit of information , the time when the Chairman of the council extended the invitation to sixth formers , looking for alternative entertainment for the sixth formers of school , after they sat through a full council , I took them over to the er archivists er department , and we saw the paper restor , sorry , should n't say paper restorer , manuscript restorer at work , and these sixth formers , already knew of the existence , one of them asked to see the records of parish , because he knew they were there , and I mean , I think this is wonderful , that the sixth formers already , er children are being taught about the ar the records , and they will want to be sure that we kept them , and I think it 's our moral duty to keep er , the records of the past for future generations . |
| 12 | None of them seemed to include the tube in their itineraries , but there was some useful advice on how to secure the best berths on a Nile river cruiser and an interesting complaint about the lack of leg room on Concorde which assured him that the R and the F of this world had to contend with life 's little niggles just like everybody else . |
| 13 | She claimed that one of them went to headbutt the man . |
| 14 | Many of them wanted to see an administration whose make-up visibly broke the supposed lock on political power of white males . |
| 15 | The group , obviously delighted at having someone new in their midst , constantly called her name and it seemed to Rachel that every one of them wanted to throw the ball to her while she , infected by their enthusiasm , was only too happy to join in . |
| 16 | Although the Boards had somewhat uninspiring regional names , most of them tried to present a more appealing local public face by using acronyms or logos such as ‘ MANWEB ’ for the Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board , and ‘ Seeboard ’ for the South Eastern Board . |
| 17 | In the summer of 1557 , some of them tried to break the stalemate . |
| 18 | One of them tried to jump the ditch and landed on Canny , breaking his neck ( Lincoln Journal , Nebraska 28 December 1987 ) . |
| 19 | It dawned on Nutty , reading the programme ( ‘ Start 9 am prompt ’ ) that they had none of them attempted to do the four parts of the competition all on the same day , and she wondered bitterly if she would still be conscious when the results were announced . |