Example sentences of "they [adj] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They each took a handful of strawberries . |
| 2 | They each led a procession , one from the church and one from the school , but with the demise of the iron company and its band these two joined together in one procession . |
| 3 | They each win a Hogan lightweight backpacking tent worth £150 . |
| 4 | Byrne said that they each carried a water bottle , a compass , a revolver , eight Lewes bombs , a tin of chocolate , and a mixed ration consisting of raisins , lumps of cheese and broken biscuits . |
| 5 | They each had a choice . |
| 6 | They each had a radiator beside their beds , and very often when I was on night duty J. would return to bed very late ( or should I say early ? ) , after having been sitting with me in the Met Office , drinking coffee , chatting and so forth . |
| 7 | Now they each had a picture which they examined and re-examined , trying to breathe life into the two-dimensional image . |
| 8 | After they had consumed these they each had a slab of apple-and-blackcurrant pie and some chocolate cake . |
| 9 | They each had a paper bag with something in it that looked like onions . |
| 10 | Their wives were also employed by the company and they each had the use of a company car . |
| 11 | In the past they each viewed the task and the information differently , but with information technology this is changing . |
| 12 | If there 's more than one winner , they EACH get a ring . |
| 13 | That 's the way it looked out in the halls as they each displayed a show car as bright as any we 've seen since Tokyo last year . |
| 14 | Ramsay was interested to note , in the passing , how as a couple of boats entered the harbour ahead of them from the fishing , under the bridge between the two outermost towers , they each provided a basket of new-caught fish to be hoisted up on ropes to men on the bridge , this seemingly how they paid their rents and harbour dues to their lord . |
| 15 | On the other hand , the units themselves are subject to market prices as they each represent a share of the fund 's net asset value . |
| 16 | They each represent an area measuring 79 x 57 m on the ground , giving the image a compressed appearance when it is displayed on a TV monitor . |
| 17 | They each have a tendency to have a very close feel for what the public 's ‘ gut ’ thinking is on this and , indeed , other matters . |
| 18 | So a female who can persuade two males that they each have a stake in the brood will do better in the evolutionary struggle . |
| 19 | But it was rather boring , and one of the gang got a can of anti-perspirant and suggested that they each have a sniff to get high and have ‘ dreams ’ . |
| 20 | And of course , although they have a legal sovereignty as I 've mentioned , and they each have a place on the General Assembly and the General Assembly of the United Nations , there are enormous differences between the resources which are available erm for different states and their capacity to act . |
| 21 | They each have a set job on the road . |
| 22 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 23 | They each snapped a bracelet around their wrist and locked it , placing the miniature keys in the centre of the board . |
| 24 | And they each paid a fee which put £10 million into the Moonie coffers . |
| 25 | They each put a hand on the handle , had a last look round to check it was safe , took a deep breath and pulled . |
| 26 | Are they likely to open the door ? |
| 27 | When he has returned to his place they all repeat the oath in unison . |
| 28 | While Elle , Vogue and subsequently The Independent ( Fig. 5 ) , stressed different facets of Kahlo 's public persona , they all shared the emphasis on ‘ her ’ , as an encapsulisation of stereotypical images of Mexico , rather than her work . |
| 29 | This year it froze right through and they all spent the afternoon of Christmas Eve sliding on it . |
| 30 | IBM has announced the Workstation One family of programs that give personal computers and workstations running OS/2 2.0 , AIX Unix , Microsoft Corp Windows or Apple Computer Macintosh system access to applications on IBM mainframes and Digital Equipment Corp minis — but they all require a server between the desktop machine and the host , with the minimum server being an 80386 machine . |