Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take a drive in the country during the hedgehog season and you will see the remains of thousands of them splattered across the roads . |
| 2 | The men drank beer from the bottles , and one of them passed round the cigarettes he had bought on the flight , and the blond girl contributed a half-bottle of Stock brandy . |
| 3 | And all three of them made for the stairs . |
| 4 | But the Pope kept quiet and the atrocities went on , many of them supervised by the followers of St Francis . |
| 5 | It is known that many families emigrated to Canada during the fifty years from 1818 to 1868 and a great number of them came from the crofts . |
| 6 | In the week after the election we asked our panel to look back Over the whole campaign and tell us how useful they had found television , the press , and other sources for : ( 1 ) helping decide what party leaders and personalities were really like ; ( 2 ) keeping them informed about the issues ; and ( 3 ) helping them decide how to vote . |
| 7 | They were passed down father-to-son from Father 's great-great-grandfather to him , and every one of them acted on the pageants , father and son . |
| 8 | ‘ I hope you 've got a good plan , Thing , ’ he panted , as the four of them dodged between the bushes , ‘ because I 'll never be able to get you all the way up there . ’ |
| 9 | The tethered owl , deliberately employed as a decoy , attracted the flock of small birds to the spot , where many of them alighted on the branches of the nearby tree . |
| 10 | The key to this was developing attitude scales , many of them named after the researchers who devised them . |
| 11 | Opposition to them resulted in the proposals being withdrawn . |
| 12 | Most of them went to the cities , or at any rate out of traditional rural pursuits , to find their way as best they could in strange , frightening , but at best boundlessly hopeful new worlds , where the city pavements were said to be paved with gold , though immigrants rarely picked up more than some copper . |
| 13 | They crept up the stairs but ca n't have got more than half way up when our cat , Pete , came scurrying down followed by the chopper and the lump of wood . |
| 14 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 15 | And they met in the woods where Robert was murdered . |
| 16 | She stood shaking , setting the flaming tresses about her quivering so that they rippled in the shafts of light broken by the barrier of trees . |
| 17 | When they got to the windows , Maisie put her ear to the glass . |
| 18 | The Sussex Daily News could only say that it was the boy who had the black eye when they got to the police station . |
| 19 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 20 | After a further period four queens and then four aces came along and they got in the beds too . |
| 21 | Wher near our hospital they all liked to wear western clothes , they were a bit out of date but er the there , there were lots of T-shirts and s and dresses worn by the people , there was even a Blackpool T-shirt , I 'm not sure how they got in the shops . |
| 22 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 23 | From the vibration of air , they lived through the eyes , |
| 24 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 25 | They lived amongst t' roots of t' trees . |
| 26 | Grinning broadly the French boy led the way into the forest , and for a quarter of an hour they threaded through the trees following a narrow trail . |
| 27 | Among those who could not attend but said they agreed with the aims of the delegation were Owen Jones and Bellamy . |
| 28 | But Jean Orr , Professor of Nursing , Queen 's University Belfast and one of the authors of the report , emphasised community staff still had ‘ a lot of energy ’ for students and they agreed with the principles of Project 2000 . |
| 29 | The Evangelicals recommend ‘ Ragged Schools ’ , Sunday schools , and regular churchgoing as the cure ; they agreed with the Benthamites that education was the ladder leading up the economic scale . |
| 30 | A main difference is that Hume , like Hutcheson , was confident that the basic moral attitudes or feelings of men would be uniform once they agreed on the facts of a situation . |