Example sentences of "they [vb past] [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Domesday shows that they provided Edward the Confessor with a revenue of £53 a year and the three works of the king — probably the maintenance of fortresses and bridges , and service in the army . |
| 2 | Husband and wife Graham and Gill Moore said they found Sunday the best time to shop . |
| 3 | ‘ They beat Holland the same way they beat Italy , by defending tightly with a sweeper and breaking away cleverly to score . |
| 4 | In the Middle Ages , people often depicted their monks as ruminative animals , chewing over the Word of God repeatedly , as it were , rolling the words around in their mouths and absorbing it into themselves just as they received Jesus the Word in the Eucharist , in a symbolic and sacramental manner . |
| 5 | In Riga they paid Hughes the compliment of putting two defenders on him but that merely created space for the other Northern Ireland players . |
| 6 | The Wisconsin state authorities feel that they have lost enough money on Steve Chen 's dreams — his failed Supercomputer Systems Inc received $75m in incentives from to establish its operations in Eau Claire , and they showed Chen the door when he asked for another $5m to get his fledgling SuperComputers International Inc off the ground in Eau Claire . |
| 7 | They called Massingham the Honjohn behind his back and occasionally to his face , and bore no malice . |
| 8 | They reached Darwin the same day , covering the 2,435 miles at an average speed of 188.4mph , with stops at Charleville and Cloncurry . |
| 9 | Once they reached Singapore the company 's duties were varied . |
| 10 | He told the 114 delegates assembled at the resort 's Savoy Hotel how the environmental group had regarded BNFL when he took office in 1986 : ‘ You remember , they re-named April the first , my first day in office , British Nuclear Fools Day . |
| 11 | They gave Ken the best reviews he had had to date — and the best he could possibly wish for . |
| 12 | They gave Jack the chance to practise some of the underhand humour that eventually became part of his mystique . |
| 13 | Traditionally , a company of White Lions acts as the personal bodyguard of the Phoenix King in honour of the time they saved Caledor the first from Dark Elf assassins . |
| 14 | In those days a new house was usually constructed out of wooden hut sections of which there was a plentiful supply as most of the troops stationed here in the war lived in wooden prefabricated buildings and when they left Orkney the buildings were dismantled and then sold . |