Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | But these ‘ philosophical ’ analyses of society were essentially based on speculation , on dubious and untested assumptions about the motives of human beings in their behaviour , and on undisciplined theorising , and they lacked systematic analysis of the structure and workings of societies . |
| 2 | Often they lacked day-to-day knowledge of the firms they had invested in , and had a tendency to sell their shares the instant a firm hit trouble . |
| 3 | it was , it was Romana 's mum and dad , I think they owned that row of houses and the shop |
| 4 | ‘ They owned this kind of enclave on the coast just outside Ajaccio — like a kind of tourist village — that 's where they kept the women , really , while they were away on business . |
| 5 | They met some girlfriends of Jessica 's , and ended up having cakes and coffee and a laugh . |
| 6 | Observers said they expected pro-reform supporters of President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani to win 70 per cent of the 270 seats . |
| 7 | They got that sort of marble stuff . |
| 8 | They got all sorts of video erm tapes . |
| 9 | They got eight copies of them video shop |
| 10 | But I always remember they got this snap of whisky , the men got a nip of whisky and the women got a glass of wine when they come in . |
| 11 | Now people are n't as open , but that 's because they got taken advantage of . ’ |
| 12 | They got another example of how dangerous the Headmistress could be on the very next day . |
| 13 | During the middle ages the most important records were at least in some degree legal instruments : whether they transferred land , appointed men to office , warranted expenditure , acquitted revenue officers of their charge , or summoned litigants to court , they conveyed some kind of legally valid authority . |
| 14 | In November 1941 they became 101 Troop of 6 Commando , with Lieutenant Smith in command , and were attached to the naval shore base HMS Lynx , from which they operated , with MTBs , submarines , or other carriers taking them to the area of their target beaches . |
| 15 | They made flat piles of twigs , finished them off with evergreen , then emptied their rucksacks and spread the blue nylon on top . |
| 16 | Well I , I , as I say , I did follow it up and in fact , I even went to a committee where I sat and spoke to the er the police face to face and they made all sorts of promises but nothing materialized . |
| 17 | They made extensive use of sub-contractors , some of whom might agree to bring as few as a dozen men-at-arms and archers to the force . |
| 18 | They made little use of the youth clubs and other leisure facilities , other than as places to meet their mates . |
| 19 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 20 | The discussion of the gentile constitution and of the confederacy are however , intended by Marx and Engels as a preliminary to their theory of the origin of the State , and for this again they made much use of Morgan 's work . |
| 21 | They made maximum use of the forum provided by the zemstvos and drew them towards an alliance with the liberal and constitutional movement emerging in the cities . |
| 22 | They made realistic models of different types of cuckoo eggs ( realistic enough to fool a leading British ornithologist who unwittingly recorded one as part of a clutch he discovered ) and placed them in the nests of reed warblers to examine the response of the hosts . |
| 23 | They made swift work of Portree where they landed on the Sunday afternoon . |
| 24 | I do n't know if I know I understand obviously monies not around at the moment but if they made some way of creating some kind of jazz pub closing it down making it part of the theatre again it 's it 's just a like a pub and I I do n't ever feel comfortable going in there and buying drinks on rehearse . . |
| 25 | Gloucester never got themselves into gear and they made hard work of what should have been a straightforward game … in the second half they hammered away at Scottish … all but lived on their line but failed to get over it … |
| 26 | Middlesbrough Bears 50 Long Eaton Invaders 39 BORO 'S unpredictable Bears grabbed their first league win of the season last night although they made hard work of it at a bitterly cold Cleveland Park . |
| 27 | The two schools came to different conclusions because they asked different kinds of questions and had different views as to what counted as an explanation , and of how an explanation should be evaluated . |
| 28 | They passed several canvases of Dutch landscapes glowing on the walls — trees huddled under magnificent skies or minute skaters twirling on expanses of ice . |
| 29 | This does indeed seem at first sight to demonstrate that some of people 's most vivid , detailed and enduring memories are precisely the memories they have about situations in which they experienced high levels of emotional arousal . |
| 30 | but where if they sold little packets of sweets |