Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six-year-old Michael Smith and his parents were spotted by a passing yacht as they clung to a tiny buoyancy bag in darkness . |
| 2 | Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 . |
| 3 | These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) . |
| 4 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
| 5 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 6 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 7 | They had a son but divorced eight years later , and did not see each other for the next 45 years , until January when they met at an 80th birthday party of Dougan 's sister Gwendoline . |
| 8 | His earliest rape , of a 19year-old girl , happened the previous year after they met via a mutual friend . |
| 9 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 10 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 11 | They met in an undistinguished office block just off the Euston Road , two floors ofwhich were used as secure neutral territory for committees and meetings between Government depart-ments who would lose face by visiting the other fellow 's wigwam . |
| 12 | Through a plascrystal port they gazed upon a vast hazy hangar lit by the occasional glowstrip . |
| 13 | They got into a big car and drove away . |
| 14 | One produced a gun before they got into a yellow Ford Escort and drove off . |
| 15 | Seems like the only parts they got for a young actress nowadays she gets six lines , they cut three and she gets raped in the first ten minutes . |
| 16 | You know , sort her meals out and then come back home that 's why she wants them to move in with her , cos they got like a little self contained flat there |
| 17 | Until they got within a hundred yards , |
| 18 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 19 | At the beginning of his reign in the parliament of 1307 they assented to a fifteenth , but seven more years passed before the clergy again conceded any more : York province offered a small sum to ward off the Scots in 1314 , and Canterbury reluctantly , and upon certain conditions , granted a tenth in January 1315 . |
| 20 | They lived at a low level of amenity for , even if they had had the wealth and knowledge to run a specialized judiciary or a hospital service , they resisted the organizational and constitutional consequences of such institutions . |
| 21 | They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage . |
| 22 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 23 | They could never forget , he told his audience in his 70th anniversary speech later in the year , that they lived in a multinational state . |
| 24 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 25 | For many disabled people , unwanted dependence on others would disappear overnight if they lived in a physical environment which did not handicap them . |
| 26 | They lived in a depressing house in Finchley . |
| 27 | While they could point to the fact that the town might have a poor bus system , could have better public amenities and that in winter it was dull , they could also point to the good health they enjoyed compared to when they lived in a large industrial city . |
| 28 | Often they lived in an impersonal tower block some distance from their immediate relatives . |
| 29 | They lived by a simple code : do what the hell you liked , do it together , but be loyal to the King Rat . |
| 30 | Led by Siemens and Philips , they agreed on a co-operative research and development programme , half-funded by the EC . |