Example sentences of "they [vb past] with [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 2 | Among those who could not attend but said they agreed with the aims of the delegation were Owen Jones and Bellamy . |
| 3 | But Jean Orr , Professor of Nursing , Queen 's University Belfast and one of the authors of the report , emphasised community staff still had ‘ a lot of energy ’ for students and they agreed with the principles of Project 2000 . |
| 4 | The Evangelicals recommend ‘ Ragged Schools ’ , Sunday schools , and regular churchgoing as the cure ; they agreed with the Benthamites that education was the ladder leading up the economic scale . |
| 5 | Since issues of property dominate legal work the propertyless have had little cause to encounter it unless they interfered with the interests of those with property . |
| 6 | These trends were supposed to be so powerful that many groups were driven to extinction as once-useful organs became overdeveloped to the extent that they interfered with the animals ' ability to cope with the environment . |
| 7 | Organisers say they complied with the conditions of their licence , but the district council says there have been breaches of the conditions . |
| 8 | They shared with the foresters a general responsibility for the safe keeping of vert and venison , the sheriff could seize their lands if they failed in their duty . |
| 9 | ‘ For more than four hours Tally and I lounged around in the carry-out , talking , drinking coffee , watching people come and go , watching other hangers-on as they bantered with the waitresses , horsed around among themselves , or danced to the juke-box . |
| 10 | ‘ While the committees normally held meetings in working hours with management 's permission , when disputes arose , chairmen frequently convened unauthorized meetings and excluded staff representatives if they disagreed with the positions of the union leadership ’ ( Cusumano , 1985 , p. 148 ) . |
| 11 | S so they came with the keys for me , the shop keys , and to say goodbye to us . |
| 12 | They communicated with the mines of A , a neighbour of B , although no one suspected this , for the shafts appeared to be filled with earth . |
| 13 | They began with the words : ‘ I agree that the terms of the late Mr Farrington 's will be varied … |
| 14 | However , when one comes to the duty to provide and ordain suitable trained attorneys and lawyers to equip the courts , the judges ' performance of that duty , in so far as it related to the provision of trained advocates , was executed through the relationship they developed with the Inns of Court . |
| 15 | They went with the notebooks and perspex box containing drawing instruments and a slide rule sitting in the open top of the bedside locker . |
| 16 | Many of the others — broke and sickened by the attitude of their non-refusenik colleagues , who included most of the staff of the Sun and the News of the World — experienced personal traumas as they struggled with the difficulties of what was obviously becoming a futile protest . |
| 17 | The Plymouth merchants gave up the idea of founding a northern colony , though they were interested in the prospects for fishing and they traded with the Indians along the coastline . |
| 18 | They will be able to milk local taxpayers as they did with the rates , irrespective of the consequences . |
| 19 | ‘ But Father and the other men had a great time at the headman 's — getting blind drunk on the raksi that they bought with the proceeds . ’ |
| 20 | They integrated with the Picts , the ‘ painted men ’ , finally absorbing them and their culture completely , leaving behind only robbed brochs , broken hill-forts and a few stone carvings as evidence of the Picts ' passing . |
| 21 | He says the victims only escaped injury because they cooperated with the robbers |
| 22 | After Frank had gone , they continued with the searches . |