Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for Dizzy 's locking of the door behind them became apparent within a minute , when Alina heard a hesitant tap on the other side followed by a young woman 's voice calling Dizzy 's name . |
| 2 | Charlie , now a light middleweight , could n't wait to get in the ring while Tommy somehow managed to keep himself out of the firing line , although both of them became aware of Captain Trentham 's menacing presence as his swagger stick continually struck the side of his leg . |
| 3 | The fire died down and the embers became grey ashes , the forest around them became full of noises as the creatures of the night resumed possession of it , but Marian , Allen and Hugh slept on until well after dawn . |
| 4 | One of them got lost in the corridors and another dropped some important equipment into the sea . |
| 5 | And eleven of them got involved in a fist fight in the middle of one of those New York streets . |
| 6 | We find them mentioned first during the reign of Edward I , in the 14th century when they were assessed to pay 20/ for the knighting of the Black Prince . |
| 7 | A few yards behind them came two of the gardeners and the young detective on duty at the nursery that morning . |
| 8 | Behind them came two of the Sheikh 's men and a Pakistani male nurse . |
| 9 | None of them seemed keen to be involved with the police . |
| 10 | They were elicited by my questions about his earlier career , and most of them seemed new to Laura for she laughed with unfeignable gaiety , her head at moments in helpless tears against his chest . |
| 11 | In December I was interviewed on a dark evening at Trinity by a group of Fellows , one of whom wore enormous boots and all of them seemed amused by my belief that there were no good books on eighteenth-century English history . |
| 12 | Her duties were many , and none of them seemed onerous to her . |
| 13 | ‘ Some of them reckoned one of the teachers — some arty chap with a beard — might have done it , but Laura do n't think so . ’ |
| 14 | TWO men who battered a man to death with hockey sticks after he shouted racist taunts at them walked free from the High Court in Glasgow yesterday . |
| 15 | I noted with envy the gold-embossed timber mansions of the merchants , the stalls in front of them piled high with goods of every kind : rich cloth of gold , rolls of murrey , silks and satins , leather bottles , Spanish riding boots , gold cord and testers , blankets of pure wool , and tapestries heavy with silver needlework and gold filigree . |
| 16 | Today most of them felt exhausted from the stress and the long journey . |
| 17 | A count at one meeting revealed that all twenty-seven people present were Guardian readers , and it was obvious that many of them knew little about popular papers . |
| 18 | But because many of them knew little about journalism , they did n't appreciate the difference . |
| 19 | At another he speculates that none of them knew much about news or editing . |
| 20 | But none of them lay still in quite this way . |
| 21 | With them went most of the exservicemen who had contributed much to the discipline and paradeground smartness . |
| 22 | The outfits were not particularly tight-fitting , yet they revealed much of their splendid physical development and amazing muscle definition . |
| 23 | They strafed one of the airfields , claiming one bomber destroyed and several damaged . |
| 24 | Some people thought that with the mitre on his white hair he looked like one of the effigies on the tombs of the prelates which they met recumbent in cathedrals , and fancied that here was a bishop out of the Middle Ages . |
| 25 | After the snowstorm , there was fog , and in the fog , they got lost on an ice river with hundreds of big holes in it . |
| 26 | Can we assume they got lost in the dark on their way ? |
| 27 | They got hung-up about status even though you explained it to them . |
| 28 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 29 | Customs have now returned the Skin 2 tapes ( perhaps they got bored with them ) , but still seem gripped by the American mags , the comics and the fetish art . |
| 30 | After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her . |