Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pushing their way up through the soil with force they pierced the fallen leaves . |
| 2 | But once over the bridge they met the first vehicles of a German column and the Commando force were scattered . |
| 3 | Patients were classified into three groups : ( a ) ‘ probable ’ Alzheimer 's disease if they met the clinical criteria and had a Hachinski score less than 5 ; ( b ) ‘ broad ’ Alzheimer 's disease defined after reclassification of all presenile patients by discriminant analysis ( this group included all probable Alzheimer 's disease ) ; and ( c ) multi-infarct dementia — a definite history of at least one cerebrovascular accident and a Hachinski score greater than 6 . |
| 4 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 5 | ‘ He said he would buy me a hat and I told him we 'd wait until they got the new 'uns in ; but when we come to it a week or two later he would n't spend his money . |
| 6 | But do n't forget this this is a very important time with the all the increase coming in they 've got a helluva lot to take on , not just learning the company but they got the new routes and everything and it 's going to leave I would 've thought very short in an exceptionally busy period |
| 7 | ‘ They got the other women to call me that so that they would n't like me . |
| 8 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |
| 9 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 10 | They got the french windows and i , it looks it i , really is nice ! |
| 11 | Apart from the fact they got the wrong ones , as Clare said |
| 12 | Which was , say , when they 'd started the the roll of bacon , there always used to be some little bits before they got the full rashers , well , you could n't sell those , you could n't s I mean even though things were tight in those days , you could n't sell any sort of bacon , you either sold best back , or you sold belly bacon . |
| 13 | Still , they got the difficult jobs done and that was the main thing . |
| 14 | After their marriage they amalgamated the two operations , and formed the F and B chain . |
| 15 | The issues at stake could hardly have been greater , and they concerned the other members of the world community just as much as they concerned the USSR : for it was not only in the USSR that an answer was being sought to the question as to whether there could be a ‘ third way ’ — a socialism that ensured a decent and equitable living for all its members and yet avoided monopolistic concentrations of power of a kind that had led to political repression in the USSR and other communist-ruled nations . |
| 16 | They then formed a limited company of which they became the sole directors and shareholders and sold the business to the company . |
| 17 | Slowly they became the legal authorities on the religious law , adding comments and interpretations of their own . |
| 18 | In fact they became the rotten boroughs of later centuries . |
| 19 | But , debarred from owning land as they were , they became the great craftsmen of these regions , as carpenters , builders , and weavers . |
| 20 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 21 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 22 | Tom Mann believed that they made the best pickets of all . |
| 23 | The night duty was made up of nineteen areas , they made the nineteen beats , and er I had to go with older policemen learning each of the beats . |
| 24 | And it surely is som something that the people of Wiltshire can be glad that they made the right decisions in May , that they have n't got that administration , |
| 25 | Some of it was clearly new to them , and er , they made the right responses . |
| 26 | ‘ They made the usual checks then , because I was allowed to go back at any time if there was a problem , they let me go home . |
| 27 | They made the following observations in that regard . |
| 28 | They made the following remarks ( per Lord Diplock ) , which I take to apply to all implementing measures , whether they serve to implement provisions of the Treaty or the provisions of directives : |
| 29 | Harry Dodson and his wife are well versed in the language of flowers , and have made wedding bouquets professionally for a good long time : they made the beautiful posies for the Victorian wedding in the forthcoming television series The Victorian Flower Garden . |
| 30 | And when the first visors were introduced they made the heavy hats flop down over the troops ' faces . |