Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [pers pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Libya the peace which flowed from state justice , impersonal , universal , was not enough for the Zuwaya : they added to it peaces of their own manufacture , tailored to the social personalities involved in particular breaches of the peace , guaranteed by specific and contingent undertakings made between Muslims . |
| 2 | They evoked for him images of hard , unrefined men , distinct and separate from other workers , hewing in the mysterious dungeons ; they are dirty , strange and attractive because they are masculine and sensuous . |
| 3 | As they turned into it Massingham realized that it was n't strange to him , he had been here before . |
| 4 | It is an interesting reflection on relative values that when Chinese coolies returned home they took with them greenstone pebbles collected from the Fraser River . |
| 5 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |
| 6 | To what er they show some of the old films like they had in them days some of these circus pictures and travel pictures Now I 'll tell you something that 's rather remarkable I 'll I 'll b tell you as briefly as I can . |
| 7 | They carried between them hoops made into garlands , big baskets of flowers or small posies . |
| 8 | There was a new desire for ‘ reality ’ and for ‘ self-expression ’ , and while they held within them dangers , they also held the possibility of ‘ veracity and strenuous life ’ . |