Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . |
| 2 | I did hear they got to the 1/4 finals ( ie won 2 matches ) about 4 years ago , but Im sure they would have said last night if they had beaten anyone decent . |
| 3 | Until they got within a hundred yards , |
| 4 | As they passed between the two pillars along the path by which they had entered , the Wheel cleared with plenty of room to spare . |
| 5 | Under the new arrangements there would be an ‘ intermediaries offer ’ to increase the distribution of new shares by giving private clients priority when they applied for the 25 per cent of the issue that is not distributed by the sponsor in a placing . |
| 6 | ‘ They 'd care as little about him as they cared about the two bombers who died in the van . ’ |
| 7 | They stopped at the Three Tuns tavern to ensure their horses had been well stabled . |
| 8 | Goldman 's defence was that , as a market-maker in MCC shares , it was exempted from having to disclose its holdings , even though they rose above the 3 p.c. threshhold above which investors other than market-makers must make public disclosure . |
| 9 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 10 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 11 | They see themselves exercising the restraining , moderating role they played in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 12 | Scotland , on the other hand , open the World Cup against Costa Rica in Genoa — shades of Dortmund in 1974 when they sauntered to a 2-0 win over Zaire and did not realise that this was the game to build up a healthy balance of goals . |
| 13 | Slater and Woodside found that the couples they interviewed in the 1940s showed ‘ a mutual liking canalised by prudential and social considerations ’ . |
| 14 | They drove past the two figures and Terry sounded his horn that played the first few bars of the Star Spangled Banner . |
| 15 | When they came to the two roads , they stopped . |
| 16 | They came from the four corners of the world , east and west , north and south , and they spoke many languages . |
| 17 | There was n't any hope of treasure , they knew that ; and all they salvaged after a hundred and seventy five years were a few copper nails from the frigate 's hull and a couple of cannon . |
| 18 | Stone recurrences in five patients are believed to be the result of residual stones as they reformed by the six month follow up examination and each of the post procedure contrast studies had shown a filling defect in the neck of the gall bladder or cystic duct . |
| 19 | They suffered in the 1989–90 ambulance dispute . |
| 20 | Earlier however Kelburne looked as though they were going to walk all over the young Aberdonians when they raced into a 2-0 advantage from scores by David McKay and Michael Starling but a goal by Philip Webster just before half time gave the northerners a timely boost . |
| 21 | St Mary 's had notched up three points before the Westerners could reply and , at times playing inspired football , they raced into a 0–6 0–3 lead . |
| 22 | But Newtown 's mopping up efforts paid dividends when they raced to a seven wicket victory in 21 overs , Gwilym Lewis leading the charge with an unbeaten half-century and skipper Bryan Jones hitting 22 . |
| 23 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 24 | Hudd was Frocester 's best bowler with three for thirty six … from their forty overs Kington made 191 for 6 … it was anybody 's game … you 'd have possibly put money on the Gloucestershire side as they raced to a 143 for three … but leg spinner Clive Scott took three wickets for just ten runs and Frocester were all out for 189 on the very last ball … victory to Kington by two runs … |
| 25 | Brian and Deborah Curley had expected champagne and flowers when they arrived at the four star hotel on the island of Tenerife after a perfect wedding . |
| 26 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 27 | Celtic are in no hurry to sell , and if they continue the form they showed in the 3-0 victory over Hibernian at Easter Road they will be quite happy not to have any calls from potential buyers at least until the end of the season . |
| 28 | And as they walked around the 230 acre farm , all of it in the extended Less Favoured Areas , they were able to see at first hand why Hume Stewart-Moore and his son Michael were so successful . |
| 29 | The team they fielded in the 1927 final included eight internationals . |
| 30 | The distinctive features of concentration , conglomeration and internationalization as they developed into the 1980s can perhaps be described as their scope , scale , management , balance and volatility . |