Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they met a few days later in Benghazi they quarrelled and the Zliten boy knifed the Zuwayi in the arm . |
| 2 | They got no more sympathy from the global banking system than you or I would ( or did ) in similar circumstances . |
| 3 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 4 | Once constructed , sanctuaries and temples of whatever cult continued to receive votive offerings , and the richer and more prestigious they became the more emulation they aroused and the greater the inflow of precious substances . |
| 5 | Absolutely , just to make more points , they made a few things up , ex , absolutely . |
| 6 | We hear that they made a few proposals of an undetermined nature which we are sure do not involve recording contracts … lives of the rich and famous , eh ? |
| 7 | In many ways the amoral blood baths were preferable because they made no such pretence . |
| 8 | Fortunately they asked no more questions , and were still discussing the wonderful things I had seen , when Joe came in from the forge . |
| 9 | They passed a few farms , and Lucy tried to control her nervousness by gazing at the lonely homesteads , but in some strange way it conveyed itself to Silas . |
| 10 | They checked the few patients in the waiting-room , and Kathleen got Amy to sort them into priority , talking through the decision-making process as she did so . |
| 11 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 12 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
| 13 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 14 | The difference was , of course , that they shared the same land mass , and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks . |
| 15 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 16 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 17 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
| 18 | He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features . |
| 19 | They shared the same paynote and were self-selected . |
| 20 | They nearly always ate together ; they gave each other all they had that was especially valuable ; they shared the same house , slept under the same roof . " |
| 21 | and they shared the same manager . |
| 22 | They shared the same cigarette and frolicked in the pool . |
| 23 | Dmitrii Zamiatnin , the deputy Minister of Justice , and Sergei Zarudnyi , Bludov 's assistant at the Second Department , were juridical radicals , but although they registered a few successes in their quest for change ( notably the foundation of the enlightened Journal of the Ministry of Justice in 1859 ) , they needed more than idealism to convert their superiors . |
| 24 | However , when other people repeated my calculation , they found the same effect . |
| 25 | In analysing their left-hand columns , the executives found that each side blamed the other side for the difficulties , and they used the same reasons . |
| 26 | From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls … |
| 27 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 28 | Staff were separated less and less from pupils ; they used the same library and the same resource centres . |
| 29 | An hour later they used the same tactics to gain entry to the other half of the camp . |
| 30 | When they launched themselves into production in 1922 , Balcon and Saville with Woman to Woman , the story of a shell-shocked officer who comes out of amnesia to discover the truth about his sordid past , and Wilcox with two films of which the second , a florid melodrama called The Flames of Passion , was a hit , they used the same director , Graham Cutts , and judged it worthwhile incurring the expense of bringing over American stars , Betty Compson for Woman , Mae Marsh for Flames , in order to increase their films ' marquee value at home and abroad . |