Example sentences of "they [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Only a few were dressed in European suits , but each of them cultivated a wispy goatee , the mark of the Annamite man of consequence . |
| 3 | The Minster had the gruffest basso but the others were undeterred and the whole tribe of them made a tremendous clangour . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After a few half-hearted sips , one of them made a great show of looking at his watch , and put his glass down . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The electrodes were so positioned that current flowing through them caused a particular pleasure . |
| 10 | With them came a small retinue of mainland filing clerks , bodyguards , etc. for whom well-furnished houses and flats were also purchased . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 ! ) |
| 13 | The look that passed between them showed a certain amount of respect but a little mistrust as well . |
| 14 | She was evidently an old acquaintance of Madame Gebrec , who addressed her as Huguette and made solicitous enquiries about her varicose veins before the two of them began a lively discussion of the menu . |
| 15 | MANILA ( AP ) — Ferdinand Marcos ' followers petitioned the Philippine Supreme Court to allow the late president 's body to be returned from Hawaii , and one of them threatened a huge protest if the tribunal turned them down . |
| 16 | It makes a good spawning medium , my fish spawned this spring and none of them lost a single scale . |
| 17 | One of them saw a tarnished wristwatch lying on the beach and decided to play a practical joke . |
| 18 | Instead , most of them saw a steady confirmation of their existing position . |
| 19 | For [ fa ] some of them felt a strong shock just at my thinking of tackling the subject of the sense of humour of the Prophet Muhammad and the holy imams of Islam and advised me to confine my research to modern times . |
| 20 | Immediately below them lay a wide pool and here the water was almost still . |
| 21 | Balancing between them took a great deal of agility . |
| 22 | The Regent diamond of 410 carats recovered from Golconda in 1701 was soon acquired by Governor Pitt , grandfather and great-grandfather of men who between them despoiled a great part of the French empire . |
| 23 | Nonetheless , they also found that the professional newcomers to the area were often upset by the environmental consequences of modern farming ( see Chapters 8 and 9 ) and since they lacked a rural power base they formed environmental pressure groups to protest against the farmers , thus creating a new form of social division in the rural community . |
| 24 | Central government was felt to be too remote from the people ; they lacked a sufficient sense of participation in its affairs and were beset by a sense of unresolved grievance . |
| 25 | First it was claimed that LEAs had inadequate information about curriculum provision in schools ; and , second , that they lacked a clear policy on the curriculum . |
| 26 | TERRY Venables and Alan Sugar were all smiles when , in June 1991 , they announced a joint rescue package for financially-crippled Tottenham Hotspur . |
| 27 | In the US in 1986 when they announced a voluntary retirement incentive ( ‘ VRI ’ in their parlance ) , 13,000 IBMers grabbed it ; then in 88 when IBM consolidated US manufacturing and headquarters , another 7,500 went . |
| 28 | They revealed a poor judgement which damaged the Government and destroyed his career . |
| 29 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 30 | My ancestors were wealthy and powerful ; they owned a vast amount of property and a fleet of merchant ships . |