Example sentences of "they [vb past] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them dreaded seeing the " hand-of-death " . |
| 2 | All of them died leaving a minor to succeed . |
| 3 | Secondly , on the issue of the precedents for making a defendant prove his defence in the way in which the Bill requires , I argue that every year — certainly since I have been in the House — we have created numerous new offences which have defences attached to them , usually for those who can show that they acted reasonably or that they used due diligence to ensure that they avoided committing an offence . |
| 4 | They stopped providing the subsidized food which had made it possible to survive . |
| 5 | On the lighter side actually , my husband , and my sister-in- law and brother-in-law used to smoke , and I got very cute to this , because I sa , noticed that they stopped working every time they had cigarette |
| 6 | Whenever they stopped talking the muffled sound of the machinery in the workshop seemed to become louder . |
| 7 | Well er they they took so much money when the end of that when they stopped travelling the horse when they was finished the season , they went round all the farms and collected what they call the fairways money . |
| 8 | If they stopped visiting the hospital every day , there would n't be anything left in life except a gaping crater of nothingness and broken bricks . |
| 9 | Although they proposed retaining the City of London Boys ' School on the Embankment , all buildings behind , including the School of Music , would be swept away . |
| 10 | They proposed raising the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen and extending the provisions of the Industrial Schools Amendment Act . |
| 11 | Two of the schemes were paraded somewhat grudgingly , and only on an interim basis , because they involved preserving a measure of selection at the age of thirteen or fourteen . |
| 12 | Well , alas , in that particular case , there was a panicky policy , because they delayed drawing the proper consequences from their data for too long . |
| 13 | Samantha Sherratt , who is compiling the Information Pack , would be glad to hear from people with any comments or details of problems they faced following a partner 's imprisonment . |
| 14 | They probably had a variety of different habits , some no doubt were scavengers , others sediment grazers , and it seems probable that some trilobites were also active hunters , pursuing worms and other soft-bodied prey , which they shredded using the spines on the base of their legs . |
| 15 | But in 1921 the King 's personal physician , Lord Dawson , stunned his profession alike and delighted the press by praising the morality of family limitation and warning Church leaders that they risked losing a whole generation by their unrealistic pronouncements ; an example followed in 1925 when the next King 's physician , Sir H. Rolliston , Regius Professor of Physick at Cambridge , became president of a new family-planning clinic . |
| 16 | The next day they began digging a pit at the base of a rock . |
| 17 | They began opening every door as they walked up its length . |
| 18 | Although it 's only two years since they began acquiring the magazines , there are now so many that the bulk must remain in storage . |
| 19 | They enjoyed doing the shop , and wanted others to have the pleasure of listening to it as they drive in their car , or walk with their walkman . |
| 20 | Our doctors were delighted for they knew they would soon need expert surgical help , but secretly they enjoyed showing the ‘ greats ’ who had little rooms adjoining each other on that top floor , the good work that had been done in ‘ the acute exanthemata . ’ |
| 21 | Probably Tom 's fellow commuters sincerely enjoyed their Sunday morning Martinis , just as they enjoyed shining the tail-fins and chrome of the Plymouth and cutting their grass with power mowers ( power mower sales quadrupled ) . |
| 22 | It tells how they returned bearing a huge bunch of grapes , and with reports of a land ‘ flowing with milk and honey ’ , just as God had promised . |
| 23 | They finished filling the sugar bowls and Catriona left for the afternoon . |
| 24 | Children read incomplete sentences such as " the dog ran after the … " , and as they finished pronouncing the final word , which was always the word " the " , a completing word was presented . |
| 25 | A week later , they recorded reaching the ‘ Kooskooske ’ River , from the Nez Perce Koos keich keich , meaning Clearwater . |
| 26 | In December 1966 , police had to evict anti-war demonstrators from the Berkeley campus , and , as student leaders called for a campus strike , they started singing the old student favourite ‘ Solidarity Forever ’ . |
| 27 | How long before they started harvesting the MID 's with Sweeper squads ? |
| 28 | Jobson said : ‘ If they started supporting the team we might win a few games . ’ |
| 29 | Last week they started breaking the wild three year olds and goodness , Raimundo and the grooms adored it , treating it like some macho game . |
| 30 | The old lady died and within weeks they 'd decided to get married ; they started furnishing the rooms over the shop and all was set for a wedding . ’ |