Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they got to him ninety-eight per cent of his body had been burned . |
| 2 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 3 | They came to her one by one : Brendan , Shane , Rhett , Niall and Roger , and she was hugged and kissed by each in turn , so that her cheeks burned from the scrubbing of their coarse beards . |
| 4 | When they eventually withdrew they took with them four thousand slaves and great herds of cattle . |
| 5 | For the sepia studio plate they had of us three |