Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got no more sympathy from the global banking system than you or I would ( or did ) in similar circumstances . |
| 2 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 3 | Once constructed , sanctuaries and temples of whatever cult continued to receive votive offerings , and the richer and more prestigious they became the more emulation they aroused and the greater the inflow of precious substances . |
| 4 | In many ways the amoral blood baths were preferable because they made no such pretence . |
| 5 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 6 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 7 | The difference was , of course , that they shared the same land mass , and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks . |
| 8 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 9 | They shared the same paynote and were self-selected . |
| 10 | They nearly always ate together ; they gave each other all they had that was especially valuable ; they shared the same house , slept under the same roof . " |
| 11 | and they shared the same manager . |
| 12 | They shared the same cigarette and frolicked in the pool . |
| 13 | However , when other people repeated my calculation , they found the same effect . |
| 14 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 15 | Staff were separated less and less from pupils ; they used the same library and the same resource centres . |
| 16 | When they launched themselves into production in 1922 , Balcon and Saville with Woman to Woman , the story of a shell-shocked officer who comes out of amnesia to discover the truth about his sordid past , and Wilcox with two films of which the second , a florid melodrama called The Flames of Passion , was a hit , they used the same director , Graham Cutts , and judged it worthwhile incurring the expense of bringing over American stars , Betty Compson for Woman , Mae Marsh for Flames , in order to increase their films ' marquee value at home and abroad . |
| 17 | Two solutions might occur to ingenious engineers , indeed did occur to them when they encountered the same problem , again in the analogous case of radar . |
| 18 | The French recovered the lead but two laps later they tried the same move in the same place and there was a collision between the two boats . |
| 19 | They visited the same city , perhaps the same places , and spent the same amount of money — but Joy had a marvellous time , while Gloom was thoroughly miserable from start to finish . |
| 20 | Free men on the frontiers of industry , shocking the respectable of all classes , the heroes of an unofficial folklore of masculinity , they played the same sort of role as sailors and frontier miners and prospectors , though earning more than the ones , and lacking the others ' hope of making their fortune . |
| 21 | The recovery was slow and by 1937 the rate was still at 9%. 3 By 1941 , then , people looked back across two decades of mass unemployment to the end of the previous war , and by and large they assumed the same thing would happen again . |
| 22 | and they 'd the same bed that that they 'd got married in |
| 23 | The friar returned a light scowl , after which they paid no more attention to one another . |
| 24 | Some of the early groups joining the Modular Course as they faced the same problem of replacing London external degrees ( humanities and social science ) felt the strong hand of management as they exercised their ‘ academic ’ decision to join . |
| 25 | Rather , while they showed the same pattern of alternating between slow wave sleep and REM sleep about every ninety minutes , the proportion of light sleep stages ( I and 2 ) was low . |
| 26 | Remains of older persons present more of a problem , and when dealing with earlier populations , it is difficult to be sure that significant age-changes took place at the same time , and that they showed the same group variability , as in modem populations . |
| 27 | They given the same grant |
| 28 | They walked a little way into the Trees , where it would be more comfortable to sit on the thick , dry forest floor and eat their food and rest . |
| 29 | They walked a little way in silence . |
| 30 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |