Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a general expectation that people will not remember detailed facts correctly if they are only exposed to them in the spoken mode , especially if they are required to remember them over an extended period of time . |
| 2 | Information is only appended to them in the form of agreement comments during their various states . |
| 3 | The ones , most people ca n't do anything with those , they 're just paralysed by them in the States , and then we have project management forms . |
| 4 | Once territories have been established by young fans , occupants are physically confined within them for the entire duration of the match . |
| 5 | He has also insisted that we will not keep troops on the ground when the war is over , and that a solution must be found by the local governments and not imposed on them by the US and/or Britain . |
| 6 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 8 | Indigenous groups gained three seats in the Senate — two specially allotted to them under the new constitution and one elected . |
| 9 | and maybe like read to them at the end of the day or whatever . |
| 10 | They should not undertake the sung parts traditionally assigned to them in the Offices and in the Eucharist . |
| 11 | They now carry deeper theological meanings , which were probably given to them by the Church in the period of the oral tradition . |
| 12 | If one remembers that the rebels had sympathizers in London , although these may have been partly alienated from them by the disorders , it is all the more remarkable how quickly the city authorities reasserted their control and obtained substantial support . |
| 13 | We used to embrace the comfortable doctrine that the Roman cities of Britain survived as the shells of walled towns — with cathedrals often built within them in the seventh and eighth centuries , but little other semblance of civic life — until English towns were revived in the late ninth century by King Alfred , who enjoyed a vision of urban life which could owe nothing to the English civic scene in which he had been brought up . |
| 14 | But , putting to use the superior education unwittingly handed to them by the state or paid for by their parents , they soon displaced the handfuls of old faithfuls . |
| 15 | In the abstract it may not be too difficult to acknowledge that the thinking , desiring and feeling which seem more intimately myself than my bodily motions are spontaneous , and also voluntarily controllable , in much the same proportions as the physical process of breathing , and that there has never been a moment of choice when I was not already being spontaneously pulled by them in the directions between which I chose . |
| 16 | This research is concerned with the nature of the writing submitted to the Mass-Observation Archive by a range of ‘ Observers ’ in response to ‘ directives ’ periodically sent to them by the Archive . |
| 17 | so much for international success … what about Swindon … he has n't scored for them in the league yet … but would give anything … and everything to get amongst the goals |
| 18 | She tells that there is only a photograph of one kitten ( left ) as the keepers were n't allowed near them by the mother , Cato . |
| 19 | As she had n't returned for them during the week they would have to be returned to her — via Lowell . |
| 20 | We are not Americans , even though I do hate the way we sometimes run around them like the little brother . |
| 21 | In 1859 Engels contemptuously referred to them as the ‘ ruins ’ of a people ‘ no longer capable of a national existence ’ . |
| 22 | If only such offenders were punished by having a Radio One DJ surgically joined to them at the hip , perhaps they would understand the crime of incongruous and pig-ugly extensions . |