Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this is probably because such retirement arrangements died out before formalizing them became the normal custom , rather than because they were never common . |
| 2 | None of them shared the icy restraint of the last letter . |
| 3 | Behind them hulked the great mass of Shunner Fell below the flanks of which the Butter Tubs Pass wormed its way over into Wensleydale . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Oxford United 's fans , more than fifteen hundred of them made the long journey to Tranmere on Saturday to support their team . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Above them rose the poor fields , littered with rock and gorse , the lower slopes of the mountain . |
| 9 | It was not known how many of them caught the connecting flight to Katmandu . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Behind them came the fat boy in glasses from Cranborne School . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The first of them resembled the still-existing cyanobacteria ( formerly known — wrongly — as ‘ blue green algae ’ ) . |
| 14 | For those who enjoyed them , the preservation of the fueros was ‘ an instinct and a poetry ’ and the struggle to defend them linked the backward-looking Carlism of the 1830 's with the cultural nationalism of the later nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Authoritarians of the left , right , and centre — including right-wing dictators , old-style communists , and post-colonial governments in developing countries — have all of them espoused the Mobilizing Ideal as the proper role for the mass media . |
| 16 | After St George 's , almost all Unionist candidates ran without making promises to support the coalition ; this did not mean that all of them joined the diehard group when elected , but it showed that coalition was no longer seen to be a winning ticket . |
| 17 | I was n't sure how many of them knew the actual meaning of the word . |
| 18 | Barrie Lamb , chairman of the Darlington Railway Preservation Society , explained : ‘ Quite a few historians have written about this building but it seems a bit odd that none of them knew the exact date it opened . |
| 19 | There was little social intermingling , and the subordinate position forced upon them enabled the ethnic majority to hold themselves detached and distinct . |
| 20 | While it would be dangerous to build too much analysis on the characteristics of the three main public representatives of the DUP , Paisley , Robinson and McQuade between them represented the full spectrum of DUP support . |
| 21 | Ahead of them lay the Nile , bathed in mist , like a white sea ; behind them lay the dark desert , like a petrified purple ocean . |
| 22 | Moreover , advancing west and northwest respectively , as the two armies were , produced a potentially calamitous separation of the two forces , for between them lay the Masurian Lakes , a complex of waters stretching some 80km/50mls north to south . |
| 23 | Formally the rulers were the Khedive and his ministers , mainly Turco-Circassian in origin , but behind them lay the real power of even more alien masters , the British under what had become known as the " veiled protectorate " . |
| 24 | They had reached the end of the ferry jetties and ahead of them lay the tightly-knit bulk of the town , its few colours beige , dun , ochre , brown and white — flattened by the sunlight . |
| 25 | But here there was no statutory authority , and although there were several paths that seemed to lead to a solution , none of them went the whole way . |
| 26 | Many of them wore the chequered scarves of the Palestinian fedayeen , the leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine . |
| 27 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 28 | Since they lacked the necessary cash , the government would be obliged to furnish them with credit . |
| 29 | More significantly , they lacked the personal conviction necessary to argue for the ‘ balanced ’ curriculum for the younger pupils . |
| 30 | Perhaps they lacked the ideological baggage , or even the intellectual equipment , to recognize the type of mentality which lay behind the smiles and jokes . |