Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers . |
4 | But we have reports that Palestinians and other ex-patriots they helped the invading Iraquis and took part in the looting . |
5 | They reiterated the old CEB faith in the imperatives of central technical control , and brushed aside potential gains from decentralisation , but themselves maintained a very weak financial control over the divisions . |
6 | They confused the 24-year-old Transvaal centre with Springbok centre Faffa Knoetze , who is still playing somewhere in Italy . |
7 | They claimed the first Tardis , as used in the 1963 series starring William Hartnell , collapsed 16 years ago . |
8 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
9 | Nonetheless unlike many of their Palaeozoic companions , they survived the late Permian extinction , and the ancestors of the living Nautilus even underwent a minor evolutionary burst in the Mesozoic , where forms quite similar to the pearly Nautilus can be common fossils . |
10 | If chargers move through Fanatics they have not already encountered then they sustain more damage as they hit the deranged Goblins . |
11 | All the rest were guest players , and they included the great Peter Doherty , who was then with Huddersfield Town . |
12 | When Jones and Jenkins returned three seasons ago , they brought the younger McIntosh with them . |
13 | The first form talked about it more than any one else , of course they squealed with laughter when they saw the poor Mary Lou Manselle and Gwendoline , all falling victims to the same spider , jolly clever spider said Irene , it means the only three people in the form that it that would be scared of it , I take my hat off to that spider , ca n't think why it chose my desk said Mary Lou , no , that was a shame said Gwendoline , poor Mary Lou it must of been an awful shock for you when you saw it , I wonder who put it there ? |
14 | ‘ I … asked if they meant the famous Thelwall , ’ Walsh reported . |
15 | No , even stranger than that , they thought the hapless Mary was none other than KURT COBAIN ! |
16 | By the time they reached The Royal Albert Hall , they were both exhausted and exhilarated . |
17 | They appeared the next Friday night at the Smiths ' poolside looking fashionably anonymous and sinister like Seb 's crowd , and jumped in eagerly , Hoomey obviously expecting his new look to do wonders for his crawl . |
18 | They discussed the coming Sunday excursion as they climbed out of the empty hold and trotted down the ship 's gangway on to the wharf . |
19 | they could parse accurately and analyse poetry , but they spoke the perverted Lancashire dialect of the towns , had a narrow vocabulary , and could not understand diction … |
20 | From the nut up is unmistakably PRS , and while one or two people around the office were n't sure if they liked the standard PRS headstock shape on this design I think it looks fine , instantly identifying the instrument . |
21 | A nine-year-old , he is the ideal age and will be ridden by Hywel Davies for the first time since they won the 1989 Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup . |
22 | One of the few genuinely dockland clubs , they won the 1905 FA Amateur Cup as West Hartlepool , then achieved nothing more until they won promotion to the Third . |
23 | They enlisted the young Joan at art school , but he did not do well there , and in 1910 he was enrolled as a trainee at a Barcelona haberdashers . |
24 | But back Northampton went and though they held the first Nottingham surge they could not stop the second and scrum-half Hughes dived over on the left to score a try which earned a standing ovation . |