Example sentences of "[vb infin] [conj] they [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I could know that they fell into the hands of men of learning and curiosity , I should be more easy about them . |
| 2 | LITTLE did they know as they lazed by the pool that the roof was about to fall in . |
| 3 | They did not contest that they participated in the crime ring , but said they had no choice because of pressure from Chinese secret societies . |
| 4 | In addition , since the CAB did not succeed when they pressed for the extension of legal aid to cover representation at industrial tribunals , there simply is no other organisation able to take on this work . |
| 5 | How did the people here feel when they heard of the raid ? |
| 6 | Indeed , the Teds had appeared on the streets before postwar meat-rationing had been abandoned in Britain — which might suggest that they belonged to the world of postwar austerity , rather than ‘ affluence ’ . |
| 7 | Government policy was , and is , to maintain urban densities to conserve farming land , and when the developers won an appeal on the second half at a density of twelve houses per acre , the developer asked the district council whether , in view of the Secretary of State 's decision , they would agree to waive the restriction ( which they could still enforce if they wished under the Section 52 agreement ) ; this the district council agreed to do . |
| 8 | Bernice felt sorry , but thought many more would die before they escaped from the castle . |
| 9 | This did not mean that ideas and values came from some supernatural source , but it did mean that they came from the history of society , not the history of the individual . |
| 10 | Yet , in contrast to official policy , Contact staff allowed users to come and go as they pleased in the centres . |
| 11 | After they realised that the warriors did not care if they stayed in the saddle or not , Yuan , Alexei and the others got down as well . |
| 12 | Clouds of steam would rise as they scooped beneath the surface of the warm fermenting heap , and as they carried their loaded baskets through the frosty morning air . |