Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them became good Americans . |
| 2 | Most of them got thirty years . |
| 3 | It was noticeable that many of them made emotive comments when addressing this question ( for example , ‘ a last resort ’ , or ‘ a place for old people to go when nobody else wants them ’ ) , a reflection possibly of their personal involvement with the residents of the home and concern for their well-being . |
| 4 | Had any of them made any approaches to her ? |
| 5 | None of them made any concessions to the local Muslim culture . |
| 6 | Lots of them tried several times before succeeding . |
| 7 | The operation to free them involved four teams of three men from mines rescue centres at Selby and Doncaster working in 10-minute shifts to claw away debris from a bottom corner of the fall . |
| 8 | Two of them bore long fruits like courgettes , though pink in colour and set with needles like a cactus . |
| 9 | Only three of them secured enough votes to be assured of their seats . |
| 10 | The centrist Authentic Party of the Mexican Revolution ( PARM ) and the left-wing Party of the Cardenist Front for National Reconstruction ( PFCRN ) and Popular Socialist Party ( PPS ) between them commanded 42 seats in the Chamber of Deputies . |
| 11 | A study in which the majority of the subjects suffered from mental aberrations of one sort or another required them to perform tasks continuously , and in isolation , for forty-two hours.4 Three of these ten subjects experienced actual hallucinations , and seven of them suffered perceptual distortions or illusions . |
| 12 | Tonight many of them faced long delays as buses ran between Princes Risborough and Bicester . |
| 13 | They stress the often fragmented and piecemeal character of the racial hostility expressed by some white people in their survey : some of them blamed black settlers for housing shortages but not the loss of employment opportunities , for example . |
| 14 | Trinity House was ordered to remove the navigation buoys from the Thames estuary ; the militia in the south-western counties was called out , seriously disrupting the bringing in of the harvest ; Essex , Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire between them raised 22 troops of cavalry who occupied Hounslow Heath ; while the foot from Kent and Surrey were mustered at Blackheath . |
| 15 | Many of them recorded complicated transactions in cash and kind , often accompanied by the laconic comment ‘ massive profit ! ’ |
| 16 | Around and among them lounged villainous men with pocked faces and broken teeth . |
| 17 | The wondrous feast that Constant Drachenfels placed before them contained paralysing poisons , and after the first mouthful none of the guests could move . |
| 18 | Only two strands appear consistent throughout ; and both of them meant lasting complications . |
| 19 | None of them shed any tears over Riddle . ’ |
| 20 | Some of them took extreme precautions against being removed . |
| 21 | Most of them wore camouflaged smocks and jump boots . |
| 22 | Both of them wore short skirts . |
| 23 | He writes that people ‘ choose ’ yakhtaru ) members of committees ( see chapter I , ‘ Popular congresses and people 's committees ’ ) ; but everyone else called these choosings ‘ elections ’ ( intikhab ) : older people had experience , younger ones the tradition of elections under the monarchy ; and they assimilated these procedures . |
| 24 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 25 | The social taboo placed on discussion of birth control and sexuality , and the acceptance by a majority of middle class women of the idea that they lacked sexual drives — what Judith Walkowitz has called the doctrine of passionlessness — meant that little information was likely to come within the purview of women generally . |
| 26 | According to the book 's author , Zhang Yong Jie , himself a young man in his twenties , they were forced to find short-term solutions to long-term problems and they lacked well-established beliefs and values because of the rapidly changing nature of Chinese society . |
| 27 | They decried human rights abuses and curbs on basic freedoms . |
| 28 | The Music Halls , as might be readily anticipated , attracted the familiar accusation that they lowered moral standards and encouraged imitative crime . |
| 29 | Gradual encroachment by landowners stealing a few feet whenever they cultivated adjacent fields had severely reduced the width of the original ‘ cordons sanitaire ’ . |
| 30 | Alternatively , the prices could be adjusted somehow so that they met total costs . |