Example sentences of "they [vb past] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they disappeared he turned his attention to a couple of girls who were laughing and giggling as they flung an orange frisbee at each other . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , they also found that the professional newcomers to the area were often upset by the environmental consequences of modern farming ( see Chapters 8 and 9 ) and since they lacked a rural power base they formed environmental pressure groups to protest against the farmers , thus creating a new form of social division in the rural community . |
| 3 | Central government was felt to be too remote from the people ; they lacked a sufficient sense of participation in its affairs and were beset by a sense of unresolved grievance . |
| 4 | First it was claimed that LEAs had inadequate information about curriculum provision in schools ; and , second , that they lacked a clear policy on the curriculum . |
| 5 | TERRY Venables and Alan Sugar were all smiles when , in June 1991 , they announced a joint rescue package for financially-crippled Tottenham Hotspur . |
| 6 | In the US in 1986 when they announced a voluntary retirement incentive ( ‘ VRI ’ in their parlance ) , 13,000 IBMers grabbed it ; then in 88 when IBM consolidated US manufacturing and headquarters , another 7,500 went . |
| 7 | They revealed a poor judgement which damaged the Government and destroyed his career . |
| 8 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 9 | My ancestors were wealthy and powerful ; they owned a vast amount of property and a fleet of merchant ships . |
| 10 | On arrival at the laboratory , they met a second volunteer and the research scientist . |
| 11 | Next they met a small brook which Artemis and Buttons had also jumped previously , and which they flew again , and finally , before reaching the King 's Bushes , they met a low but wide hedge . |
| 12 | Life was faster , demands changed more quickly , and people were included because they met a particular need at a particular time . |
| 13 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 14 | There they met an equal number of members of the congregation , people like themselves , who would be invited to share their experiences . |
| 15 | Unless , of course , they met an incoming messenger on their way . |
| 16 | Last night the grieving couple were still baffled by the tragedy that struck down six-year-old Elizabeth a week after doctors said they expected a full recovery from a brain tumour . |
| 17 | The reaction of local farmers to this disruption of their normal farming activity was to wait the situation out , as they expected a high price for their lands . |
| 18 | But he knows actually what we 're trying to do on a Sunday , and they either like to play us , er er once or twice and they got a reasonable ground . |
| 19 | Till they got a good piece through . |
| 20 | Oh no that did n't , and cos they got a good job , I mean five pound seven and six a week a skipper 's earnings . |
| 21 | They got a brilliant reception from the Leeds fans at the end . |
| 22 | They got a five minute pep talk but they did n't get a sermon . |
| 23 | But when Norway and Austria ( the schilling is pegged to the D-mark ) applied for associate membership last year , they got a cool reception . |
| 24 | They got a nasty shock : real bush pilots had been attracted to the UK from the four corners of the earth to get these well-maintained examples , and the high prices they fetched reflected the great demand that still exists for these superb workhorses . |
| 25 | They got a new engine in the mill er the start of the war I think . |
| 26 | They were cleaned until you could see your face in them and fellows were so keen that when they got a new tunic , they would cut all their new buttons off , and put their old buttons on that were beautifully shined . |
| 27 | He said : ‘ The reason KimberlyClark chose Humberside is because they got a higher level of grant aid . |
| 28 | Why they got a little house down there |
| 29 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
| 30 | Well after this if they got a big rest did n't it , because I looked at , when we played Norwich and it was March the nineteenth , well given that there was a game the week before , are you listening to me ? |