Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eventually , one of them attacked it with a large branch , striking it a damaging blow . |
| 2 | Erm , if erm , if one of them contradicted me in the class , I burst into tears , I think you 'd think something was seriously wrong with me , would n't you ? |
| 3 | Moreover , although their new jobs were temporary , not all of them regarded them as a " stop-gap " . |
| 4 | On the following Monday some of them pursued him to a review that was taking place on Wimbledon Common , while others went to the City , occupied the Royal Exchange and picketed the coffee houses , carrying placards reading More Wages . |
| 5 | Michelle , who was taking the drug Epilim , said at her home in Whyteleaf , Surrey : ‘ None of them told me about the risk of having a handicapped baby . |
| 6 | Anyone who had drugs on them dropped them to the floor . |
| 7 | And handed them handed them to the people . |
| 8 | The three bassets were already in residence , draped snoring on the fireside rug , but they seemed to be used to Debbie because two of them sniffed her in a bored manner and the third merely cocked a sleepy eye at her before flopping back on the rich pile . |
| 9 | ‘ I knew that they were n't students and I began to resist but one of them hit me over the head with a gun . |
| 10 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
| 11 | And er put that on and tied them back and front and up on them tied them to the sides of the coble and and usually towed it with another rowing boat . |
| 12 | ‘ It is a coincidence that they announced it on the eve of my press conference , ’ he admitted . |
| 13 | They skimmed you in an ante-room |
| 14 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 15 | It spread to the Chinese around 2 , years ago and then reached Japan where they cultivated it into the art form it is today . |
| 16 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 17 | There was a ditch the other side of it , which should present no problems provided they met it on the right stride . |
| 18 | And they got them from a host of people including Lady Thatcher , the Princess of Wales , Noel Edmonds , Frank Muir , Cliff Richard , Sir Harry Secombe and Ian Botham . |
| 19 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 20 | ‘ They got me on the face , stomach and legs . |
| 21 | Poor devil , they got her on the stage and they said you know , when they |
| 22 | Brenda says she was in a coma by the time they got her into the hospital . |
| 23 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 24 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 25 | Oh well they got it during the War . |
| 26 | They got it out the back of my hand . |
| 27 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 28 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 29 | For those people who can sever their own feet and lurch away , they got it round the neck later from a special breed of Tightness that lives in the baskets of flowers up lamp posts . |
| 30 | But er that was how they they got you into the the trade . |