Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six-year-old Michael Smith and his parents were spotted by a passing yacht as they clung to a tiny buoyancy bag in darkness . |
| 2 | Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 . |
| 3 | These lectures have never been published and have received little critical attention since the time of their delivery ( when they met with a mixed reception mainly due to Turner 's chaotic approach to delivering a lecture ) . |
| 4 | Some of them came to our house on some pretext or other , but they met with a chilly reception from my mother , who could look severe and forbidding when she wanted to . |
| 5 | Six players had dual qualification and the Exiles were prepared to settle for Dobson and Hunter , but they met with a blanket refusal from the Ulster Branch . |
| 6 | They met at a party in the mid '80s . |
| 7 | They met at a dance . |
| 8 | Helena Lisandrello says she had an affair with the actor after they met at a party in 1979 . |
| 9 | They met at a café near the opera , and Arnoux urged his political chief Albert Sarraut to meet this remarkable young man ( Sarraut had previously been Governor-General of Indo-China ) . |
| 10 | She had told me how they met at a First Spiritualist Church ‘ Convert the Heathen ’ session outside the Anglican church in putney . |
| 11 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 12 | Romance flared after they met on a camping holiday in Cap d'Agde in the South of France . |
| 13 | They met as a commission , under the chairmanship of the Swede Gustaf Aulén , to debate the first theme of the agenda , the Universal Church in God 's Design . |
| 14 | Soon after his call , they met for a meal at Shoney 's Big Boy restaurant where Franks/Schafer introduced him to Burchette , who was then working from home as a one-man security service , and to Jack Terrell , a former operative of Oliver North 's in Central America . |
| 15 | NINE former staff at the old Williams & Glyn 's Bradford Branch were soon talking about ‘ the good old days ’ when they met for a reunion in one of the city 's wine bars . |
| 16 | His earliest rape , of a 19year-old girl , happened the previous year after they met via a mutual friend . |
| 17 | It was the experimental air fields which gave him a taste for exploring ideas which he later satisfied by joining a university ; it was the German language which brought him his wife Mary ( they met through a German class in Bristol ) . |
| 18 | He sometimes had to disappear to the lavatory several times when they met in a pub or café . |
| 19 | On Friday they met in a mosque with the men from Zliten , demanded 6000 dinars ( £11,800 at the then official exchange rate , £6500 at the going rate in the free market ) , and received assurances of payment . |
| 20 | They met in a soup kitchen in Hull , decided that cutting a record together would be fun , and before long had Paul Weller offering to play guitar for them . |
| 21 | Not many miles away , two estates meet , between Wootton and Steeple Barton , precisely where they met in a charter dated 958 , and possibly for some considerable time before that . |
| 22 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 23 | They gazed with a covetousness at the scarf around his throat , the socks under his boots , the pants he stripped off in the Bath house , wanted to hold and feel the texture of the garments of a stranger . |
| 24 | Through a plascrystal port they gazed upon a vast hazy hangar lit by the occasional glowstrip . |
| 25 | People did n't move much once they got to a road like this one . |
| 26 | They got to a door labelled ‘ Studio 1 ’ , and went in . |
| 27 | ‘ You would n't believe how many of our employees told me what a good deal they got on a car or a boat because they adopted Karrass ' strategies ’ says an executive of a major oil company . |
| 28 | I made my original prediction because I believed that , whatever people said , once they got into a polling booth , lots of them simply would n't vote for Kinnock . |
| 29 | One produced a gun before they got into a yellow Ford Escort and drove off . |
| 30 | They got into a big car and drove away . |