Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers .
2 After returning to Britain , they made a secret Concorde trip back to America to collect the supposedly stolen gems .
3 They passed an elderly Cortina II parked half on the pavement .
4 No wonder they experienced a different London .
5 But we have reports that Palestinians and other ex-patriots they helped the invading Iraquis and took part in the looting .
6 They reiterated the old CEB faith in the imperatives of central technical control , and brushed aside potential gains from decentralisation , but themselves maintained a very weak financial control over the divisions .
7 They confused the 24-year-old Transvaal centre with Springbok centre Faffa Knoetze , who is still playing somewhere in Italy .
8 They claimed the first Tardis , as used in the 1963 series starring William Hartnell , collapsed 16 years ago .
9 The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place .
10 Nonetheless unlike many of their Palaeozoic companions , they survived the late Permian extinction , and the ancestors of the living Nautilus even underwent a minor evolutionary burst in the Mesozoic , where forms quite similar to the pearly Nautilus can be common fossils .
11 If chargers move through Fanatics they have not already encountered then they sustain more damage as they hit the deranged Goblins .
12 All the rest were guest players , and they included the great Peter Doherty , who was then with Huddersfield Town .
13 When Jones and Jenkins returned three seasons ago , they brought the younger McIntosh with them .
14 They saw a black Morris Cowley pull up in front of Hogan 's and knew it was Dr Johnson .
15 They saw a frustrated Stalin , foiled in his attempts to extend Russian power into northern , western , and southern Europe by the alliance of the European democracies and the United States .
16 The first form talked about it more than any one else , of course they squealed with laughter when they saw the poor Mary Lou Manselle and Gwendoline , all falling victims to the same spider , jolly clever spider said Irene , it means the only three people in the form that it that would be scared of it , I take my hat off to that spider , ca n't think why it chose my desk said Mary Lou , no , that was a shame said Gwendoline , poor Mary Lou it must of been an awful shock for you when you saw it , I wonder who put it there ?
17 ‘ I … asked if they meant the famous Thelwall , ’ Walsh reported .
18 No , even stranger than that , they thought the hapless Mary was none other than KURT COBAIN !
19 By the time they reached The Royal Albert Hall , they were both exhausted and exhilarated .
20 They appeared the next Friday night at the Smiths ' poolside looking fashionably anonymous and sinister like Seb 's crowd , and jumped in eagerly , Hoomey obviously expecting his new look to do wonders for his crawl .
21 They discussed the coming Sunday excursion as they climbed out of the empty hold and trotted down the ship 's gangway on to the wharf .
22 It is no exaggeration to say that tomorrow there will be many drivers who owe their continued good health and looks to the fact that they bought an airbag-equipped Honda today .
23 They gave a sprightly Anitra 's Dance from Grieg 's Peer Gynt Suite No 1 for an encore , after which Spierer ushered the whole orchestra to stage front , and a well-deserved bow .
24 they could parse accurately and analyse poetry , but they spoke the perverted Lancashire dialect of the towns , had a narrow vocabulary , and could not understand diction …
25 From the nut up is unmistakably PRS , and while one or two people around the office were n't sure if they liked the standard PRS headstock shape on this design I think it looks fine , instantly identifying the instrument .
26 A nine-year-old , he is the ideal age and will be ridden by Hywel Davies for the first time since they won the 1989 Hennessy Cognac Gold Cup .
27 One of the few genuinely dockland clubs , they won the 1905 FA Amateur Cup as West Hartlepool , then achieved nothing more until they won promotion to the Third .
28 Except for the more delicate crabs , they had a provincial Sunday lunch quality .
29 ‘ Funny place to have an office — I thought they had a main HO in Basle , thirty minutes down the autobahn from Freiburg . ’
30 They enlisted the young Joan at art school , but he did not do well there , and in 1910 he was enrolled as a trainee at a Barcelona haberdashers .
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