Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many of them led to changes in classroom practice ? |
| 2 | Through reading the Bible we discover fundamental truths about God , and see them demonstrated by events in the lives of his people which illuminate his character and illustrate his will for all men at all times . |
| 3 | There are some great set pieces — a brilliantly evoked highway robbery , with Macheath 's gang riding invisible horses and commandeering a stage coach suggested by just a table and a few boxes ; and a grotesque parade of whores , some of them played by men in drag , in which the ladies of the night emerge through a trap-door like beauty contestants from hell . |
| 4 | Those who commission buildings rarely know what they want ; those who conceive grand plans see them reduced to ashes by the planning system . |
| 5 | The old quarter is a delightful mixture , with charming Renaissance houses and quiet corners set amid the bustle of the narrow shopping streets , many of them reserved for pedestrians . |
| 6 | Martha thought it was a beautiful school ; all the pupils were girls , most of them were white , and some of them arrived in cars even larger than her own . |
| 7 | The evidence against them consisted of confessions said to have been extracted under torture . |
| 8 | If in the end we wish to locate God in the destruction of Jericho , should we not search for him lying in the dust with the rest of his people of that city , like them hacked to pieces ? |
| 9 | The 28th saw them surrounded by tanks and under heavy artillery and mortar fire . |
| 10 | It was a big flat with eight or nine rooms , all of them covered in pictures . |
| 11 | For the next five minutes all three of them talked about dreams . |
| 12 | It took months of heavy work — and £6,000 worth of grass seed — to tailor new fairways everywhere , and in this week 's Riviera sunshine , some of them looked like carpets . |
| 13 | A preoccupation common to all the papers in the book springs directly from the difficulties involved in reassessing how the ‘ facts ’ of one 's experience correspond to the descriptions of them offered by others . |
| 14 | Economic growth averaging some 3% per year is likely to the end of the century , despite current measures to curb the huge budget deficit and the probability of periodic banking crises as financial institutions , many of them over-extended by loans to energy producers , go to the wall . |
| 15 | Now , from the mid-seventeenth century onwards , they were more than ever in evidence , as pamphleteers and propagandists ready to justify them grew in numbers . |
| 16 | Throwing throwing balls of putty to each other and a couple of them went through windows and |
| 17 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 18 | Quite often we have to encourage our younger executives to take more risks because their natural reaction , particularly if they qualified as accountants , is to be conservative . ’ |
| 19 | They met at flats around London , avoiding Diana 's apartments at Kensington Palace or the lawyers ' offices in Gray 's Inn . |
| 20 | When they met at parties Nigel continued to keep up a surface friendship . |
| 21 | They met on week-days , not weekends at first , in pubs never very far away from the flat . |
| 22 | They met as contestants at a Mrs Moscow competition which Yelena won ; modelling contracts and divorce followed for both . |
| 23 | And now William was the last surviving friend of his childhood and they met as dissidents who have escaped the Gulag but left their roots behind and need each other to share the memories . |
| 24 | United gave as good as they got at times . |
| 25 | And when they got into difficulties in the rolling ocean waves , the whales came to their rescue . |
| 26 | When they got into arrears , all four had to go . |
| 27 | They got through customs . |
| 28 | They doubled as bench-tables for small children at Sunday School parties and prizegivings . |
| 29 | She herself , incidentally , came from a family which was violent both emotionally ( they lived on rows and scenes ) and physically ( her father threw knives ) . |
| 30 | The health service residents were originally in the now closed St John 's Hospital where they lived in wards with up to twenty people . |