Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They crept up the stairs but ca n't have got more than half way up when our cat , Pete , came scurrying down followed by the chopper and the lump of wood . |
| 2 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 3 | And they met in the woods where Robert was murdered . |
| 4 | She stood shaking , setting the flaming tresses about her quivering so that they rippled in the shafts of light broken by the barrier of trees . |
| 5 | When they got to the windows , Maisie put her ear to the glass . |
| 6 | The Sussex Daily News could only say that it was the boy who had the black eye when they got to the police station . |
| 7 | See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer . |
| 8 | After a further period four queens and then four aces came along and they got in the beds too . |
| 9 | Wher near our hospital they all liked to wear western clothes , they were a bit out of date but er the there , there were lots of T-shirts and s and dresses worn by the people , there was even a Blackpool T-shirt , I 'm not sure how they got in the shops . |
| 10 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 11 | From the vibration of air , they lived through the eyes , |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They lived amongst t' roots of t' trees . |
| 14 | Grinning broadly the French boy led the way into the forest , and for a quarter of an hour they threaded through the trees following a narrow trail . |
| 15 | Among those who could not attend but said they agreed with the aims of the delegation were Owen Jones and Bellamy . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A main difference is that Hume , like Hutcheson , was confident that the basic moral attitudes or feelings of men would be uniform once they agreed on the facts of a situation . |
| 19 | Since then the personnel committee have considered the report , and they agreed to the recommendations in paragraph 7(a) , 1,3 and 4 , but the third paragraph , 7(a) ( 2 ) to . |
| 20 | After that long silences fell between them , and as they rode across the fields the thoughtful frown on Silas 's brow made Lucy wonder if he regretted his offer of comfort by means of an embrace and — and a kiss . |
| 21 | The princes were seen from time to time when , with a strong guard , they rode through the streets of the City . |
| 22 | The clash they made on the stones below jarred Harry from head to heels , and for a moment shook the intensity of his concentration . |
| 23 | In fact , they asked for the practices and procedures of all the agencies involved to be thoroughly scrutinised . |
| 24 | ‘ Things no better , I assume , ’ Weasel said as they tramped down the stairs , deftly avoiding those treads which had rotted . |
| 25 | As they passed through the dancers , Connon noticed-Pascoe moving slowly around with an attractive young girl . |
| 26 | These charities were originally administered by the Church or trustees appointed by the old vestry meetings , but with the Local Government Act of 1894 , they passed into the hands of the new parish councils , or such as still existed , for in 1893 , we find the local vicar complaining that most of the charities were dead and buried , and that Thomas Towers promised to give twenty shillings each Christmas Day , very kind of him no doubt , but unfortunately he left no provision for anybody to give it after he was dead , so that in his case he and benefaction are both dead and buried . |
| 27 | They passed on the details to Leannda 's paediatrician and arrangements were made to fly to America to see if the surgeons , believed to be the only specialists in the world with the expertise to tackle the retina abnormality , could help . |
| 28 | Chirac did n't even know where to go while Le Barre was speaking on an empty white platform with no chairs , and when it was his turn to speak he had no chance of a good clean start because he had to shake hands with Le Barre as they passed on the stairs . |
| 29 | Bridget too had a similar experience : " The other girls had mixed feelings , some of them were happy for me but some thought I was a slag and a tart and that I did n't know who the father was , and they were bitchy towards me when they passed in the corridors . " |
| 30 | 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 . |