Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , they 'll be back , they 've none of them got that sort of money . |
| 2 | ‘ And how many of them made any effort to get along with me ? ’ she exploded . |
| 3 | They could n't ignore the fact that they were to part , and neither of them made any attempt to avoid it in conversation . |
| 4 | Economists were being involved in the process of economic decision making in a manner which had been unknown previously , and most of them found this admission to the counsels of the influential and powerful to be very congenial . |
| 5 | They needed each other , them complemented each other , they were bound together in a joint world order that defined the period 1948–1989 . |
| 6 | Indeed , given the high claims monarchs made for themselves , and the excesses of adoration with which they were treated — and by the time of Mary Queen of Scots , this had reached a very high level indeed — we may wonder that so many of them retained any sense of balance at all . |
| 7 | One of them told New Scientist |
| 8 | Some of them received high command in the mid-fifteenth century , and some introduced their own characteristics to the fighting of war . |
| 9 | Unfortunately the kings of Israel were a pretty disappointing lot , and most of them showed little sign of the presence of the Lord the Spirit in their lives and reigns . |
| 10 | As the police privately noted at the time , most of them showed substantial expertise and one in particular was carried out with the skill to be found only among persons such as highly trained army saboteurs . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried the bank manager and the lawyer on that one and neither of them showed any enthusiasm . |
| 12 | Neither of them showed any inclination to do other than sit outside the café in the sunshine , and Oliver had shifted the conversation far away from the Durances and murder . |
| 13 | None of them showed any interest , however , in debating the matter with her or with us . |
| 14 | Neither of them paid any heed to the poor old grand-father , who had to tend the sacred fire all on his own . |
| 15 | It was puzzling : neither of them expressed any desire actually to see their origins again . |
| 16 | Women showed themselves to be remarkably adaptable to the heavy engineering work involved and many of them displayed such interest and versatility that they were able to undertake really high class work such as turning , milling , and drilling of precision components , high grade fitting work , electric and oxy-acetylene welding , crane driving , and operation of power hammers . |
| 17 | What they each gained separately was a greater individual confidence and capacity for self-determination as women , and each of them fed that confidence back into a variety of struggles to change the position of women , and in the case of the majority of women in that particular group , to a struggle for some kind of socialism . |
| 18 | At five o'clock tea was served to the Empress and about 20 of her guests , the groups being so organized that in the course of a week all of them enjoyed this privilege , thus avoiding any outbursts of jealousy or recrimination . |
| 19 | Not all of them enjoyed full sovereignty nor were very united or coherent in structure . |
| 20 | None of them raised any matter of substance and I need not consider them further . |
| 21 | It was conducted , too , in French since France was the country to which most of them owed intellectual allegiance . |
| 22 | Far too many of them lost all contact with the education system after the age of 16 and far larger numbers in England than in Germany were in dead-end jobs without any training at all . ’ |
| 23 | Many of them needed some kind of kick up the financial backside . |
| 24 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 25 | None of them offered any distinction from its neighbour . |
| 26 | They had both of them brought mysterious plastic carrier bags about which they ostentatiously avoided asking one another . |
| 27 | Sympathetic members of a local education committee could often be usefully approached : many of them kept special surgery hours for such consultations . |
| 28 | Harry felt as if he had heard or read them all before , in one form or another , and none of them shed any light on what had struck Mrs Diamond as ‘ not right ’ : |
| 29 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 30 | And of course I loved the town and although the station was about a mile from the town centre , people used to come from the town centre in their cars , they had lunch at our place er er at Cambridge , you see , and there , there were two waiters and one , one of them took part-time cellar work , you see , and er , they were two brothers and er their name 's |