Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utterly absorbed with their cooking , none of the Halflings had noticed the Wolf Riders as they sprung from the mountain valley , neatly enveloping the camp and driving a wedge between them and the rest of the Emperor 's army . |
| 2 | What did you think they lacked at the time ? |
| 3 | It has been the deliberate policy of the Supplement to give these the prominence they lacked during the period when the OED was being edited . |
| 4 | Now , belatedly , they tried to take them by force , an exercise in which they failed despite the loss of tens of thousands of irreplaceable soldiers . |
| 5 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 6 | One prime minister was assassinated by the Brothers ; they failed in an attempt on Nasser himself . |
| 7 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 8 | The pastel-coloured costumes were at once demure and provocative ; fitted tight from throat to hip , they clung to every line of the delicate , high-breasted figures , heightening the allure of slender shoulders , tiny waists and the swell of young Ranks ; below the waist , however , the gossamer-light , side-split skirts and billowing trousers of white silk shrouded legs and thighs in secrecy , and to Chuck and Joseph the exotic girls of Saigon seemed not to walk but to float gently beneath the tamarinds on the evening breeze . |
| 9 | Six-year-old Michael Smith and his parents were spotted by a passing yacht as they clung to a tiny buoyancy bag in darkness . |
| 10 | At one point tears rolled from his eyes ; they crept down the side of his face , and into his ears ; he continued to lie rigid . |
| 11 | Inside the garden , they crept towards the house , and now , for the first time , Oliver realized in horror that the purpose of the expedition was robbery , and maybe even murder . |
| 12 | Later , under cover of darkness , they crept into the house , where Charles hid for the night in the attic . |
| 13 | The woman had four other children by her marriage ; they crept into the room , peeped at Edouard , and crept away . |
| 14 | They crept onto the bridge without meeting the expected sentry . |
| 15 | They crept up the stairs but ca n't have got more than half way up when our cat , Pete , came scurrying down followed by the chopper and the lump of wood . |
| 16 | Cramlington illustrates real issues , in particular the extensive development gains made by the private developers on land they owned at the beginning of the whole process . |
| 17 | Something they cultivated after the Iraqi Gulf War . |
| 18 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 19 | Normally that would mean they qualified for the world indoor event , but Johnson has the option of appealing to Athletics Canada for one of Canada 's two 60m berths . |
| 20 | It was then that she noticed how gravely and interestedly he was looking at her , had looked at her ever since they met outside the shop . |
| 21 | They met outside the Social Services and he had pleaded with her to return to him and their home in Oxford . |
| 22 | They met with no resistance from government troops . |
| 23 | Here they met with a better reception and Leverburgh was renamed in his honour , but they were not continued after his death in 1925 . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ They met with the president . |
| 28 | But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in . |
| 29 | They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order . |
| 30 | They met at a party in the mid '80s . |