Example sentences of "they [vb past] [noun prp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They got Andrex at forty-eight pee a double roll up at Notting Hill . |
| 2 | Pakistan 's superiority in the circumstances was no secret by the second evening , by which time they led England by 68 with six wickets in hand . |
| 3 | A couple of cats hung around number forty-three , but they avoided Simon-who in any case never fed them . |
| 4 | Richard Cadette score a hat-trick for Falkkirk last night as they defeated Dundfermline by four goals to one . |
| 5 | And on the occasions they did manage to create openings , they found Goram in outstanding form . |
| 6 | Instead they found Goram in magnificent form . |
| 7 | It was the same later that year when they visited Canada for three weeks . |
| 8 | Now England can go top of the group if they beat Turkey by four clear goals in Izmir next month . |
| 9 | Oxford as well have traditionally done well in the Cup erm Ray , they beat Henley by thirty points , is there any cause for concern for you ? |
| 10 | They beat Egham by two goals to one , reporting on this match , Tony Worgan . |
| 11 | In Division Three , Trevor Moye scored 114 for Brantham as they beat Worlington by 21 runs . |
| 12 | BRITAIN 'S bowmen hit the target for another Olympic medal yesterday when they beat France by two points in the bronze shoot-out . |
| 13 | They beat Warwickshire by three wickets , and will now play Leicestershire at Lords . |
| 14 | CHESHIRE won their first National Cricket Association County Championship match when they beat Lancashire by 42 runs at Milnrow yesterday . |
| 15 | CHESHIRE won their first National Cricket Association County Championship match when they beat Lancashire by 42 runs at Milnrow yesterday to give themselves a chance of winning the North West group . |
| 16 | Today at the Gloucester Festival they beat Worcestershire by three wickets . |
| 17 | The Gloucester rugby men were weekend winners too … they beat Nottingham by nineteen points to three at Kingsholm … but victory came at a cost … a serious injury to hooker John Hawker |
| 18 | They bombed Portadown at 11.15 on a Saturday morning . ’ |
| 19 | Just a year ago Australia were defeating England at Twickenham to take the World Cup ; and on Saturday they trounced Ireland by 42-17 in Dublin . |
| 20 | They acknowledged Charlotte with peremptory nods . |
| 21 | They pressed IBM on these issues and the company took over and worked the land of fifteen surrounding farms . |
| 22 | They kissed Edouard on both cheeks , they patted him on the back , they looked at Isobel hard and long , and they seemed to approve of what they saw . |
| 23 | The Carthaginians were one of the first to set the trend when they founded Ibiza in 654 BC . |
| 24 | DERBYSHIRE , the poor men of cricket , struck it rich yesterday when they crushed Northamptonshire by eight wickets to reach next month 's Benson and Hedges Cup final at Lord 's . |
| 25 | Arsenal , without both first-choice full-backs Winterburn and Dixon through injury , suffered another setback when they lost O'Leary after 24 minutes with a hand injury . |
| 26 | Gloucester knocked up a new record at the weekend … at Kinghsolm they flattened Bridgend by forty two points to fifteen just three days after beating Newport … its the first time the cherry and whites have beaten two Welsh sides in the same week … in the valleys they 'd say … die yown … very good |
| 27 | Over more than six days they convicted Allitt of four murders , three attempted murders and six charges of causing grievous bodily harm with intent . |
| 28 | They burnt Brighton in 1544 , forcing the settlement to grow finally upon the cliffs rather than down on the beach , threatened by the French and ‘ Neptune 's insatiate womb ’ . |
| 29 | They reached Zweeloo at six in the morning , and still it was not properly light . |
| 30 | Her best chance would come when they reached Ibiza in two days ' time . |