Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 2 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 3 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 4 | Lots of them tried several times before succeeding . |
| 5 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 6 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
| 7 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 8 | Two of them bore long fruits like courgettes , though pink in colour and set with needles like a cactus . |
| 9 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 10 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 11 | Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war . |
| 12 | Unfortunately the kings of Israel were a pretty disappointing lot , and most of them showed little sign of the presence of the Lord the Spirit in their lives and reigns . |
| 13 | Neither of them paid any heed to the poor old grand-father , who had to tend the sacred fire all on his own . |
| 14 | They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example . |
| 15 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 16 | None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further . |
| 17 | Many of them recorded complicated transactions in cash and kind , often accompanied by the laconic comment ‘ massive profit ! ’ |
| 18 | Far too many of them lost all contact with the education system after the age of 16 and far larger numbers in England than in Germany were in dead-end jobs without any training at all . ’ |
| 19 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 20 | Around and among them lounged villainous men with pocked faces and broken teeth . |
| 21 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 22 | None of them shed any tears over Riddle . ’ |
| 23 | Harry felt as if he had heard or read them all before , in one form or another , and none of them shed any light on what had struck Mrs Diamond as ‘ not right ’ : |
| 24 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 25 | Some of them took great satisfaction in provocative statements of their position : there is no such thing as law , they said , or law is only the prediction of what the courts will do or only a matter of what the judge ate for breakfast . |
| 26 | None of them took any notice of Darwin , but the feathers and fossils aroused mild interest . |
| 27 | Some of them took extreme precautions against being removed . |
| 28 | But these ‘ philosophical ’ analyses of society were essentially based on speculation , on dubious and untested assumptions about the motives of human beings in their behaviour , and on undisciplined theorising , and they lacked systematic analysis of the structure and workings of societies . |
| 29 | But it may be that , as men of little social consequence , they lacked that sensitivity to personal relationships on which the aristocratic society of the tenth and eleventh centuries had depended ; for the newcomers , what was sauce for the goose was likely to be sauce for the gander . |
| 30 | Often they lacked day-to-day knowledge of the firms they had invested in , and had a tendency to sell their shares the instant a firm hit trouble . |