Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them built up vast fortunes under my father 's regime , illegal fortunes , I hasten to add . |
| 2 | He told her to fetch a pencil and paper and when she brought them scribbled down several sentences in capital letters . |
| 3 | The switch worked : on the faces of both of them came down that twilight of solemnity , a most vulnerable condition , he had found , if rightly played upon . |
| 4 | It represented in real terms an overall cut of about 9 per cent , though as allocations to individual local authorities were made on an arbitrary basis , some of them suffered much greater reductions . |
| 5 | The People 's Party and the Democrats had between them polled over 5,500,000 votes in 1928 , but in 1932 they polled less than a million . |
| 6 | Most of them are n't doing cabinetry ( joinery ) any more — a lot of them started out that way . |
| 7 | Around them grew up short streets of cottages for the workpeople , run up so quickly that they look as though they were planted flat on the surface , without any foundations ; but still there was no congestion . |
| 8 | Charles did n't tell Jacqui about their new ally in investigation when they met up that evening to report progress . |
| 9 | In Rockingham , Whittlewood and Salcey Forests they met regularly three times a year . |
| 10 | After her return to operations , Sugar 's first trip was to Wurzburg on March 16/17 , followed by another on 20/21 , this time again piloted by Laurie Baker on a 1,560 mile trip to attack the Bohlen oil works , where they met only moderate defences . |
| 11 | The US Secretary of State , Mr James Baker , had unsuccessfully tried to persuade Mrs Thatcher to relent when they met earlier this week . |
| 12 | They were doing in that shop exactly what they intended to do and in all probability , what they intended to do from the moment they got up that morning . |
| 13 | When a handful of persistent pickets parked a caravan at the Hinkley entrance during the long drawn out miners ' strike , they got precious little support . |
| 14 | erm n they wo n't buy disks , they got about twenty sort of faculty heads |
| 15 | ‘ Everything takes twice as long now they got so much data on the computers . ’ |
| 16 | They got so much satisfaction from helping the Association , in fact , that as this photo shows , they signed application forms for Life Membership ! |
| 17 | Today , they got so many horses , like , Cecil got hundred and forty , and 's hundred and forty , well so you got three lots you ca n't do it . |
| 18 | I am certain that with no additional resource , we can do more for our researchers than provide then with yet another data archive where they can deposit the materials which they developed with inadequate support and for which they got too little recognition . |
| 19 | Yes they they amalgamated then this parties and that and they had the you see . |
| 20 | Unknown to Magellan and his crew — for they lived fully three centuries before Alfred Wegener advanced his theory of continental drift — the spot where they chanced upon the new ocean is one of the great tectonic landmarks of the world . |
| 21 | Or rather , they laid down specific principles that were to be more or less taken for granted by subsequent positivists . |
| 22 | Together they laid down strict rules to keep the vital traffic moving . |
| 23 | Because they were able to participate in two kinds of experience which were new and unexpected — radical university politics in the 1930s , and Japanese stage-managed ‘ independence ’ in 1943 — 5 — they became successively prime ministers of Burma and the architects of independence . |
| 24 | Much later , bacteriophages were found to transfer genetic information , from one bacterium to another , so they became immensely important tools for geneticists and have played a fundamental role in understanding the functions of deoxyribonucleic acid ( see Chapter 11 ) . |
| 25 | Now this was a family I was very close to eventually when they became quite near neighbours in later years by moving to Clove Lodge , just up the pasture from Low Birk Hatt . |
| 26 | They became really good friends because they were very alike . |
| 27 | They became very good friends indeed , which , naturally , did not please Lord Burlesdon . |
| 28 | They rode almost due south , by the Morthwaite foothills and the Eddleston Water to Peebles , then westwards up Tweed to that river 's great bend southwards at Broughton , and so on towards its source on Tweedsmuir , darkness halting them at Oliver , where they learned that its lord , Sir Simon Fraser , had already departed likewise for Lochmaben , in strength . |
| 29 | They rode almost due north , making for Birdsall Brow and facing into a gusty northwesterly breeze . |
| 30 | He had hoped that by trying some whisky he 'd understand adults a bit better ; instead they made even less sense . |