Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 2 | And they lived in in smaller houses than we 'd got . |
| 3 | They ruled from about 1710–1570 BC , from a capital ( Avaris ) in the eastern part of the Nile delta . |
| 4 | Their goals switched the spotlight back on the Ipswich title challenge as they moved to within seven points of their rivals and had their odds halved from 50-1 to 25-1 . |
| 5 | They came across as corporate mercenaries obsessed with money and equipment and , fittingly , they were big in Japan . |
| 6 | They dropped from between 4,000 and 9,000 per square metre of riverbed — a natural variation according to time of year — to about 500 per square metre . |
| 7 | Monaghan , a prospect they returned to in 1983 . |
| 8 | Having said all they needed to on this subject , they left it , and Alice said after a pause , " I went round this afternoon . |
| 9 | But Ben Macdhui has been known to give walkers more than they bargained for on several occasions . |
| 10 | Yeah , erm , I mean , I think , what you 've , what you 've actually done is identified quite a lot more areas than they , they had four , which which they did in in some detail , and they got the stories classified , erm , what you 've actually thought of , is is far more areas , which I think 's good , erm , and maybe other areas to consider as well . |
| 11 | The only advance they learned of during that time was von Ludendorff 's . |
| 12 | On the way they passed their first wedding anniversary during this extended honeymoon and received presents of grapefruit , chocolate , duck eggs , paw-paws and a nautilus shell from people they stayed with in remote spots . |