Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got the losers ' medals , in the end , though someone at the FA should get round to re-naming them the runners-up medals . |
| 2 | ‘ Last year , ’ said Kāli , as we walked along behind the houses , ‘ Mother and one or two other women started before the forest was officially opened — before ban pasāi — and people were so angry that they made the women 's husbands go to the headman and pay a fine of five rupees each . ’ |
| 3 | The prosecutor has alleged that the police were shot when they stopped the men 's car for a routine check . |
| 4 | And they dismissed an inspectors ' report which doubted standards were being maintained . |
| 5 | Shortly afterwards officers smashed their way into Mrs Curran 's bungalow where they found the victims ' bodies in separate rooms . |
| 6 | Officers smashed their way into the bungalow where they found the victims ' bodies in separate rooms . |
| 7 | They shielded the broadcasters from outside pressure — from all directions , not just from the politicians — and they reviewed the broadcasters ' work , explaining , justifying and sometimes excusing it to government and the public . |
| 8 | Monika Wulf-Mathies , leader of the public service employees union , warned state and local community employers that if they rejected the arbitrators ' recommendations her union would call an immediate strike ballot . |
| 9 | They rejected the Georgians ' argument that the 5,000 dollars given to match officials prior to the first leg game was legitimate expenses and reinforced the judgement that Tbilisi be expelled from this season 's competition and the next one they qualify for . |
| 10 | No wonder then , that in the statement read out by goalkeeper Gary Phillips , they beseeched the players ' union , the Football League and the FA to protect them from the man who has virtually become a tyrant . |
| 11 | They found that the swamp was forcing them back and that they could no longer keep even an erratic southward course but were withdrawing towards the east , away from where they believed the Outlaws ' Camp lay . |
| 12 | They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be . |
| 13 | They now had no idea where they were except that they must be east of the Ridgery and well to the west of where they believed the outlaws ' Camp to be . |
| 14 | The ladies held an ‘ At Home ’ ( tea and bridge , paid for by the Club ) , to encourage more golf , and they secured the men 's agreement that a fire be lit in the lounge by noon every cold day . |
| 15 | Then they faced an admen 's nightmare as one by one their heroes failed . |
| 16 | They organized a boys ' camp in such a way that two deliberately-created groups were formed for the experiment . |
| 17 | Though the industrial and agrarian revolutions may not have changed the appearance of the Lake District , they claimed the peasants ' children . |
| 18 | Little did those two cricketers — the veteran Bill Lister and his friend John Beanlands — think when they instituted the tradesmen 's match that it would have assumed such proportions as it had . |
| 19 | On the one hand they strengthened the polytechnics ' resistance to the institutional review element in the CNAA 's procedures , but on the other hand they confirmed for the CNAA the value of gaining intelligence about the overall health of the institutions . |
| 20 | But the local Labour party yesterday paraded a cardboard cutout of chancellor Norman Lamont to illustrate what they called the Tories ' ’ hidden costs ’ . |
| 21 | At that time , when the Nikkei 225 index was trading at 26,230 , more than half by value of the warrants outstanding were more than 20% ‘ out of the money ’ : in other words ( see table ) , they needed the issuers ' share prices to rise by at least that amount to reach the exercise price . |
| 22 | In the autumn they established a Women 's International League based on a joint platform of women 's rights and pacifism : ‘ only free women can build up the peace which is to be . ’ |
| 23 | Then they took the men 's letters and diaries , and went north to Cape Evans again . |
| 24 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters belonging to the last farm on the road they found Matt drinking tea while he awaited their arrival . |
| 25 | When they reached the shearers ' quarters she became a bundle of activity , doing all she could to assist Matt in setting up the large barbecue , and then searching for dry wood to boil the water for the billy tea . |
| 26 | Then it was a half-hour 's drive from our base to Christophe and Hedwige 's house , and from there Mike would set off on an hour 's run with Christophe through the forest , still in darkness , to ensure they reached the chimpanzees ' nest site before the occupants moved off for the day . |
| 27 | After they left the druids ' circle at Strichen , Boswell and Johnson exchanged a number of observations , the first of which had been an expression of compassion for Mr Fraser . |
| 28 | In this they reflected the children 's literature of the time as created by authors such as Noel Streatfield , Christine Pullien-Thompson and Enid Blyton . |