Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] they in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes at least they seem to have reported to Stockholm independently of the chief under whom they served ; and in the later years of the eighteenth century Gustavus III sometimes tried to use them in this way as agents of a secret personal diplomacy . |
| 2 | Voluntary organisations took mainly ‘ first offenders ’ and tried to place them in domestic service . |
| 3 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 4 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 5 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 6 | The early industrialists were proud of their achievements and liked to have them in full view . |
| 7 | He ( among others ) perceived adolescent labour as an obstacle to efficiency not only because it lacked knowledge of employment opportunities and the ability to distinguish between the merits of different occupations , but also because its inherent ‘ adaptability ’ was ‘ wasted ’ ( always a key notion in National Efficiency circles ) by the ‘ haphazard ’ nature of the transition which left too many youths in dead-end jobs and failed to enrol them in any form of further education . |
| 8 | And whoever took this four marb eight marbles had chucked them in this hole and if a even number come out it was mine , if a odd number came out then he 'd take the eight . |
| 9 | At first , Lucien had watched them in awed fascination , hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule . |
| 10 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 11 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 12 | Until then , Japanese drug firms ' poor R&D and their emphasis on selling imported drugs had left them in poor shape to compete internationally . |
| 13 | Browning traced the works to the collection owned jointly by Leon Levy , a New York financier , and Shelby White , who had purchased the pieces from the Ariadne Galleries in New York who , in their turn , had acquired them in good faith . |
| 14 | I suppose the reason was one of policy really — they had the youngsters hooked and they wanted to keep them in that position by not rocking the boat . |