Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six-year-old Michael Smith and his parents were spotted by a passing yacht as they clung to a tiny buoyancy bag in darkness . |
| 2 | Something they cultivated after the Iraqi Gulf War . |
| 3 | They met outside the Social Services and he had pleaded with her to return to him and their home in Oxford . |
| 4 | These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) . |
| 5 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
| 6 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 7 | An attempt to contact Sparrow Force was made by Bernard Callinan , with a Dutch native soldier , whose experience as a schoolmaster and whose knowledge of Portuguese , English and Malay were invaluable in translating the polyglot languages of the different people they met on the westward journey . |
| 8 | His earliest rape , of a 19year-old girl , happened the previous year after they met via a mutual friend . |
| 9 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 10 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 11 | They met in the Egyptian wing , at the same place each time , near a fragment of papyrus which was labelled , The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony . |
| 12 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 13 | Within a couple of days they had paired off with English boys whom they met in the Spanish bars . |
| 14 | Photographer Linda persuaded Paul to bare all soon after they met in the late Sixties . |
| 15 | They met in an undistinguished office block just off the Euston Road , two floors ofwhich were used as secure neutral territory for committees and meetings between Government depart-ments who would lose face by visiting the other fellow 's wigwam . |
| 16 | Young men and women , not so young men and women , wended their way across Cambridge to sit for an hour with Esther Breuer , sipping coffee , tea , or , if they were favoured , vermouth or wine , as they gazed at the red-draped walls , the crowded bookshelves , the umbrella stand , the hatstand , the cabin trunk , the medley of different-patterned fabrics , the little figurines that marched along the shelves in front of the books , the carefully assembled strip of photographed Roman frieze , the little glass doves in front of the tiny mosaic fountain . |
| 17 | Through a plascrystal port they gazed upon a vast hazy hangar lit by the occasional glowstrip . |
| 18 | What happened to them when they got to the other end I have never dared to ask , but perhaps these few illustrations ( pages 82–83 ) will convince you that Doc Winfield actually sat in this contraption and was hooked from a completely static position by an aircraft into the air and probably ( and I never found out ) delivered to some hospital none the worse for the experiment . |
| 19 | " I saw Slater heading out the door with some rug-chested young Romeo , " Mr Hunter said as they got to the second-floor landing in the big house . |
| 20 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 21 | The orphans were hungry as well as tired , and the first thing they did when they got to the disused school in Malvern where they 'll be based was to tuck into a slap-up meal . |
| 22 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 23 | I joined a group of five Frenchmen as they got onto the sunken road leading to the orchard . |
| 24 | They got into a big car and drove away . |
| 25 | One produced a gun before they got into a yellow Ford Escort and drove off . |
| 26 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 27 | When they got near the large boxes , Christopher stood up inside the car and lifted it round to turn it . |
| 28 | You know , sort her meals out and then come back home that 's why she wants them to move in with her , cos they got like a little self contained flat there |
| 29 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 30 | They amounted to the grand sum of twelve pounds and ten shillings — a fortune ! |