Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Until they got within a hundred yards , |
| 32 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 33 | At the beginning of his reign in the parliament of 1307 they assented to a fifteenth , but seven more years passed before the clergy again conceded any more : York province offered a small sum to ward off the Scots in 1314 , and Canterbury reluctantly , and upon certain conditions , granted a tenth in January 1315 . |
| 34 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 35 | They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage . |
| 36 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 37 | They could never forget , he told his audience in his 70th anniversary speech later in the year , that they lived in a multinational state . |
| 38 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 39 | For many disabled people , unwanted dependence on others would disappear overnight if they lived in a physical environment which did not handicap them . |
| 40 | They lived in a depressing house in Finchley . |
| 41 | While they could point to the fact that the town might have a poor bus system , could have better public amenities and that in winter it was dull , they could also point to the good health they enjoyed compared to when they lived in a large industrial city . |
| 42 | They lived by a simple code : do what the hell you liked , do it together , but be loyal to the King Rat . |
| 43 | Led by Siemens and Philips , they agreed on a co-operative research and development programme , half-funded by the EC . |
| 44 | How kind of you , ’ said Felicity and they agreed to a tentative appointment for the following morning . |
| 45 | They rode at a gentle trot . |
| 46 | They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened , involving the Social Work Department , teachers , doctors and health visitors . |
| 47 | They passed through a small station and she caught a glimpse of a couple of people standing on the windswept platform , but other than that there was nothing to see . |
| 48 | They passed through a tiny hole in its black flank and came out onto the lawn . |
| 49 | Finally , they passed into a carpeted corridor and then through a regular wooden door into a small office . |
| 50 | Queensland 's short , mild winter was slipping easily into a vibrant spring , and tropical plants and shrubs were beginning to fill the gardens they passed with a colourful bounty of flowers . |
| 51 | A long-eared owl sat on a low bough overlooking the ride and watched them unblinkingly through his great eyes as they passed within a few paces . |
| 52 | Things happened in this period that profoundly influenced sociological thinking in particular , and especially in so far as it related to crime and criminals ; they led to a comprehensive rejection of the most cherished principles of positivist criminology . |
| 53 | The statue of Moloch in Carthage had large outstretched hands for children to be placed on before they tumbled to a blazing fire below , where they would be ‘ purified ’ and blessed by that god . |
| 54 | They cruised into a three-goal lead with goals by Keith Adamson ( 2 ) and Craig Fish , but two strikes from Steve Wheldon set up a nervous finish . |
| 55 | Kabbalists and Sufis were often moved by the ideas of the Jewish and Muslim rationalists , which they translated into a mystical mode . |
| 56 | In this way , they operated in a patron-client manner rather than as a united class opposing another and winning reforms through class struggle ( Galjart 1964 ) . |
| 57 | By this , structuralists ( Miliband and Poulantzas alike ) mean that short-term concessions might be given to , or seized by , interests antithetical to capitalism , but once these interests pushed their demands beyond what was safe for the continuity of the capitalist mode of production and accumulation , then economic crisis would arise to constrain choice and force policy-makers to recognise that they operated within a capitalist world economic system . |
| 58 | Still less at lectures which , Rosengarten recalled they avoided on a regular basis . |
| 59 | His eyes , dark and set deep beneath a firm , unfurrowed brow , were sleek and watchful ; one 's first impression that they twinkled with a friendly mirth soon vanished . |
| 60 | They racketed in a ragged chorus , never quite finding a common beat , rasping one 's nerves , but finally so familiar that when one day they stopped in a rare shower of rain , the silence was like an explosion . |