Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those mariners set about whaling , settling , plundering ; they established a presence in Hawaii ; they shared with Britain the spoils of the Chinese treaty ports ; they took Samoa ; they befriended Korea ; they seized and settled Midway , Wake , Guam and ( a spoil of an Imperial war ) the Philippines — thus creating a series of stepping-stones , a lifeline of tropical islands that led all the way to that greatest and most elusive prize , the Middle Kingdom , China . |
| 2 | They shared with Foxton the misfortune of coming into existence at the beginning of the motor car era , and whatever miscalculations may have been made in the construction , there was for all of them no way of gaining the large amounts of traffic that alone would have made them profitable . |
| 3 | When they returned to Cochinchina the French began by treating it as a restored colony and with Cedile , the French Commissioner in the South , and Moutet in Paris both anticipating , or frustrating , the results of the promised referendum there were increasing prospects that it would be retained for French economic interests in the form of a nominally autonomous government . |
| 4 | After releasing a couple of singles on their own Hag label in 1989 , they signed for Musidisc the following year and released a debut album in ‘ A Weapon Called The Word ’ , which has since gone on to earn them a silver disc . |
| 5 | They flew to Bombay the following spring , encased a two-grand package of smack in six Tibetan Buddhas and shipped the load to England . |
| 6 | But such was the liking they felt for Colley the Mason that no one said a word . |
| 7 | That 's exactly what they said to Mike the clerk , how you going to pay ? |