Example sentences of "[vb pp] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas |
| 2 | There seems nothing at all strange about the Church , which paid the salaries of these men and expected them to serve it , considering the question of whether or not they should be able to engage in an activity which , no matter how acceptable , would have diverted them from their main task . |
| 3 | Some of them are on N two , that erm , not necessarily , in fact the majority of the forms in the supporting guidelines on manuals are not versioned yet but they , we followed the advice of Roy there and we have listed them in each of the guidelines with a statement of erm , we 've just , I mean , a clear listing there of each form and when we actually go to introduce the next time , reprint , we will then put version codes on them . |
| 4 | Sometimes , new ideas involve such radically novel perspectives that the lack of key individuals ‘ in the chain of thought leading up to them … could easily have delayed them for … a generation ’ . |
| 5 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 6 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 7 | And Goldberg , in his pad : I have never said or written any of the sentiments attributed to me here , though I have heard them from the mouths and read them from the pens of others . |
| 8 | Sister had heard them from the S.C.O . 's office and was already beside me . |
| 9 | Two dangers with cliches such as ‘ May all their troubles be little ones ’ are that older members of the audience have heard them before and that the previous speaker may use the same joke or saying . |
| 10 | Maria had left the identical cuttings anchored by a small china bowl on her coffee-table , but the bowl had been moved , so he must have examined them on arrival . |
| 11 | Nutty adjusted them for him . |
| 12 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 13 | Fate had parted them for ever , but she would never know any other man in the way she had known Tyler . |
| 14 | He is leaving tomorrow , and I have parted them with my selfishness and my love . |
| 15 | The House of Lords has concluded that our Sunday trading laws are unclear and has therefore referred them to the European Court of Justice to clarify whether they are compatible with European law . |
| 16 | We had seen and sensed them on our way up , their tentative postures , their unanimity of hesitation . |
| 17 | A physicist colleague has kindly calculated them for me . |
| 18 | That 's for the We actually calculated them by using the unit quantity |
| 19 | These are moderate to severe pain relievers , but numerous instances were cited in the interviews where GPs had prescribed them for relatively minor ailments , some of which were fictitious , such as headaches , backache and arthritis . |
| 20 | Most previous commentators on the small towns have distinguished them from their larger counterparts on the basis of their usually haphazard and seemingly piecemeal development , though it has recently become clear that such a distinction , however useful , obscures recognizable variations among the surviving plans . |
| 21 | But environmentalists have criticized them for failing to address Southern countries ' real needs . |
| 22 | And critics of the men inside both black and white communities have criticized them for causing bloodshed . |
| 23 | and criticizing the royal family , we have admired and criticized them in the course of the last half hour . |
| 24 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 25 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 26 | It has also exposed them to explosions and radioactivity . |
| 27 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 28 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 29 | In ‘ Smooth Operators ’ I took to task the brace of pop collaborators — Hue and Cry , Wet Wet Wet and so forth — whose reading of white funk has implicated them as collaborators in pop 's current fixation with sincerity , soulfulness , positivism . |
| 30 | However , no accounting standard-setting body in the world has recognized them as serious propositions for replacing accruals accounting . |