Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blue eyes held a distinctly disturbing message as they met her brown ones , and Kate became strongly aware of danger . |
| 2 | The air-conditioning roared softly and they got their first drinks as they came out of the tunnel and on to the New Jersey marshes where gulls circled the refuse dumps among a forest of concrete stilts carrying the highways south . |
| 3 | There was a pile of really filthy-looking blankets on the bed , they got me some sheets and a towel , and I managed to get an extra pillow because of my asthma . |
| 4 | He knew that people thought them an ideal couple because they lived their mutual lives at arm 's length , they complemented each other in self-containment . |
| 5 | In this sense ancient people were artists as they lived their whole lives in harmony with the Earth , but were they artists in the more conventional sense ? |
| 6 | Then the riders crashed among them as they hugged their covering trees , and it was a chaos of hand to hand fighting and opportunist running , without shape or direction . |
| 7 | But tutors were so impressed with the two girls ' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers . |
| 8 | But er I w I would think , although it 's before my time , I would think that er of what I 've heard my father talking about these early days , there was great enthusiasm for motorcycles and of course some of the early registered numbers you 'll find that there 's many of them were motorcycles , the young men of the town who had probably been cyclists , quite a number of them er took up this motorcycling and they made their own motorcycles so were buying either kits and er even manufacturing the tanks and these things themselves . |
| 9 | They made their own terms of reference ; she , perhaps , with knowledge and calculation ; the man , after his kind , by impulse and the blind brilliance of his own nature . |
| 10 | They made their own amusements , and she learnt to knit and they had long winter nights round the fire o and they used to go She used to call it , we used to go after day set , that she called evening . |
| 11 | Gloucestershire are soldering on without Syd … in the sunday league they made it two wins in a row with a five wicket victory over Lancashire at Old Trafford |
| 12 | our rugby action this week comes from the divisional championships … the South West are on course to win these because on Saturday at Gloucester they made it two wins out of two … this time out they beat the North by 29 points to 16 |
| 13 | They asked me personal questions that I could not even repeat here today . |
| 14 | The presbytery asked members of the church to note that the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee had set up a fund for legal aid to which they might like to contribute , and they asked their Social Matters Committee to look into the question of guidance to ministers in cases involving the Social Work Department . |
| 15 | As early as sixteen they asked their respective parents to allow them to marry but no blessings were forthcoming . |
| 16 | But as they checked their tiny forces — a hundred or so ashore — the first German Stosstruppen , Thrust Troops , were moving into the docks over the bridges of the submarines ' basin 's southern lock ( 'D' ) at 0150 hours . |
| 17 | Sydney , 41 , from Blandford Forum , Dorset , said : ‘ They found out I was a comedian while they checked my driving documents . |
| 18 | ‘ For a long time , ’ he says , ‘ the king acted on the advice of William of Montague , who always encouraged him to excellence , honour , and love of arms : and so they led their young lives in pleasant fashion , until there came a more serious time with more serious matters . ’ |
| 19 | And even in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries , when feudal tenure was no longer the key to social organization or , in the main , to recruitment , kings like Edward III and Henry V of England were popular precisely because they led their noble colleagues on warlike adventures . |
| 20 | When they did , they centred their national claims around the four basic demands coming from the shop floor . |
| 21 | Yesterday they boycotted their arranged games for what was a dress rehearsal for a protest later in the week when the council meets to decide its leisure and recreation charges . |
| 22 | It is likely that the Romans followed Alexandrian fashion in this respect , but surviving portraits of later date suggest that they retained their own conventions of representing character in facial features . |
| 23 | The rift between the two was never really healed , and from the 1930s onwards they pursued their separate paths . |
| 24 | Tonight , Coney Hill hospital defended the way the incident was handled , saying that when Gooding disappeared they pursued their missing persons policy … informing those that needed to know . |
| 25 | In January 1905 they approached their bitter rivals and asked if Common was for sale . |
| 26 | ‘ … through many boughs with cluttering noise/ till free from such restraints above their head/ they smacked their clapping wings . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ They moved their rotten sausages during the night , they saw us coming , they pulled them down . |
| 28 | They will discuss how they designed their written questions and semi-structured interviews . |
| 29 | A GROUP of 35 children from Dothill county infants school , Telford , will be visiting the Laura Ashley garment factory in Carno on Thursday to be presented with cotton aprons produced specially for them after they designed their own patterns based on the theme ‘ Around Our School . ’ |
| 30 | They built their great fortresses on high places , rings of rocks enclosing courts and small timbered housing . ’ |