Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they disappeared he turned his attention to a couple of girls who were laughing and giggling as they flung an orange frisbee at each other . |
| 2 | Nonetheless , they also found that the professional newcomers to the area were often upset by the environmental consequences of modern farming ( see Chapters 8 and 9 ) and since they lacked a rural power base they formed environmental pressure groups to protest against the farmers , thus creating a new form of social division in the rural community . |
| 3 | They lacked a subtle wavering aura of sound and responses to sound . |
| 4 | Central government was felt to be too remote from the people ; they lacked a sufficient sense of participation in its affairs and were beset by a sense of unresolved grievance . |
| 5 | First it was claimed that LEAs had inadequate information about curriculum provision in schools ; and , second , that they lacked a clear policy on the curriculum . |
| 6 | But this could not disguise the fact that however much influential educationalists , notably those associated with the Education Reform Council , might refer to combining vocational and general subjects ( in whatever mix for whatever age of pupil ) , and might intellectually appreciate the relevance of vocational training they lacked an effective political policy for reconciling both types of syllabus . |
| 7 | Helen Cam once suggested that parliamentary petitions may have sprung from the already practised art of the clergy in drafting lists of gravamina , or grievances , which at intervals since 1237 they had submitted to the king for redress ; but G. O. Sayles traces the origin more directly to the legal procedure of bills of complaint submitted to the king 's itinerant justices , and certainly the character of the early parliamentary petitions seems to bear this out : clerical gravamina were corporate complaints directed against general practices rather than particular people and they lacked the specific quality which individual parliamentary petitions naturally displayed . |
| 8 | True , they lacked the pipe-smoking liberal American politics of Fancher and Wolf thirteen years before , but they had , briefly , the market , caught on the cusp between the old and the new wave of 1968 , and they had the listings . |
| 9 | Since they lacked the necessary cash , the government would be obliged to furnish them with credit . |
| 10 | More significantly , they lacked the personal conviction necessary to argue for the ‘ balanced ’ curriculum for the younger pupils . |
| 11 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 12 | They lacked the menacing physical edge of the French loose trio , however , which had inflicted terrible damage on Wales 's budding stars . |
| 13 | Perhaps they lacked the ideological baggage , or even the intellectual equipment , to recognize the type of mentality which lay behind the smiles and jokes . |
| 14 | Pushing their way up through the soil with force they pierced the fallen leaves . |
| 15 | TERRY Venables and Alan Sugar were all smiles when , in June 1991 , they announced a joint rescue package for financially-crippled Tottenham Hotspur . |
| 16 | In the US in 1986 when they announced a voluntary retirement incentive ( ‘ VRI ’ in their parlance ) , 13,000 IBMers grabbed it ; then in 88 when IBM consolidated US manufacturing and headquarters , another 7,500 went . |
| 17 | They revealed a poor judgement which damaged the Government and destroyed his career . |
| 18 | He watched intently as the tiny shutters of tree-bark opened wider and wider , and when they were fully open they revealed a small squarish window set neatly in the curve of the big branch . |
| 19 | Another neglected master emerged on three LPs of Piano Sonatas by Harold Truscott , played , as in the Founds , by the indefatigable peter Jacobs ; they revealed a muscial thinker of a very high order who has been , and still is , cruelly ignored by the muscial establishment ( again , I understand that John Ogdon 's recording for Altarus of Truscott 's Tenth is due for release soon — and I would also make a plea for a re-issue of those other Sonatas on CD : they are contrapuntal masterpieces , sometimes witty , often beautiful , and they ought to be much more widely known ) . |
| 20 | Finally , the RAC 's responses were interesting in that they revealed the wide variety of provision of training that already existed , carried out within institutions and provided by major regional centres , and also suggested that this diversity would continue . |
| 21 | He said they revealed the true length of the queues . |
| 22 | It is logical that they revealed an intimate but not servile attachment to the achievements of past master sculptors . |
| 23 | But his reckoning was good : they skimmed the British trench system and raced across the ruptured wastes of no-man's-land exactly opposite the given map reference . |
| 24 | I remember how calm and serene my father looked as he lay in his coffin and how I seemed to feel something break within me when they lowered the plush-covered lid and we rode behind the hearse to Rosedale Cemetery for the interment . |
| 25 | He had watched them silently as they lowered the little bush into the prepared hole , with considerable argument as to how the roots should be spread . |
| 26 | When the clothes were wet and were put to dry in front of the household 's fire , they polluted the whole atmosphere with sulphurous fumes . |
| 27 | My ancestors were wealthy and powerful ; they owned a vast amount of property and a fleet of merchant ships . |
| 28 | The brothers told me that they owned a remote and beautiful beach which had recently been colonised by hippies living in crevices among the rocks . |
| 29 | Their lips met once more as slowly they savoured the pure essence of love . |
| 30 | Then the moment came when the tow line was released and they savoured the eerie feeling of riding the rising thermals . |