Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At last , a streak of orange light appeared to the east ; and gradually the white sea in front of them became an immense expanse of fertile green , while the purple ocean behind turned shimmering white . |
| 2 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 3 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 4 | Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale . |
| 5 | On our first visit I was left standing by these youngsters as one of them unearthed a good bag of finds ranging from Roman through to Georgian . |
| 6 | Only a few were dressed in European suits , but each of them cultivated a wispy goatee , the mark of the Annamite man of consequence . |
| 7 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |
| 8 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 9 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 10 | None of them made a special selection of materials suitable for the peasantry , so the few books that were dispatched were often too dry or too expensive . |
| 11 | But the flow of immigrants went on , with very little space to receive the new settlers , so in 1628 some of them made the easy move from St. Kitts to Nevis , and a couple of years later made a slightly longer move and occupied the islands of Antigua and Monserrat , laying the foundations of English settlement in the Leeward Islands . |
| 12 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 13 | Two senior research officers at the Home Office were also invited , and one of them made an excellent contribution . |
| 14 | A Radio 5 spokesperson said : ‘ The internal report made a number of suggestions for restructuring network radio and only one of them involved a major change to Radio 5 . |
| 15 | ‘ My guess is that one of them found the other end of the conduit , maybe the Fax machine at Pegasus or evidence of Cawthorne acting on information he should n't have had . |
| 16 | Starting with William Morris in the 1870s , a group of them found the medieval setting , craft traditions and stunning landsacapes they wanted in which to work . |
| 17 | As Fael-Inis began to play , each of them drew a deep breath and surrendered , and each of them experienced the deepest contentment at hearing the silver pipes of enchantment . |
| 18 | Above them rose the poor fields , littered with rock and gorse , the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 19 | It was not known how many of them caught the connecting flight to Katmandu . |
| 20 | The electrodes were so positioned that current flowing through them caused a particular pleasure . |
| 21 | Yesterday , two of them told The Northern Dr Clarke had not mentioned he was standing for the BNP , and that they would not have signed had he said so . |
| 22 | With them came a small retinue of mainland filing clerks , bodyguards , etc. for whom well-furnished houses and flats were also purchased . |
| 23 | From behind them came an angry gasp and , as Robert quickly released her , Sophie saw Dawn , her green eyes blazing with fury . |
| 24 | Behind them came the fat boy in glasses from Cranborne School . |
| 25 | Linda Bloomfield , chief executive of Merseyside TEC , said : ‘ Businessmen 's time is in short supply so taking the show to them seemed a logical idea . ’ |
| 26 | Merchants were not famous for taking exception to the behaviour of government appointees , but one of them likened the new Moscow Governor , A. A. Zakrevskii , to an Asiatic khan or Chinese viceroy . |
| 27 | ‘ This is a matter of considerable significance to us as three of the five districts in West Yorkshire ( Bradford , Kirklees and Leeds Metropolitan Districts ) have between them received an annual average of about £10 million over the last five years — a substantial figure . |
| 28 | The pair of them added a fair number of crashes to the record that year and when both Hunt and Horsley crashed at Brands Hatch ( Hunt made it a double by crashing his Mini on the way home ! ) |
| 29 | The first of them resembled the still-existing cyanobacteria ( formerly known — wrongly — as ‘ blue green algae ’ ) . |
| 30 | The look that passed between them showed a certain amount of respect but a little mistrust as well . |