Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 2 | Middlesbrough were stronger defensively in the second half as , surprisingly , Swindon tried to upset them with a long-ball game rather , than with their usual slick passing style . |
| 3 | Their personal responsibility for decision-making seemed to elevate them above the social struggle , to make them neutral arbiters between the competing interests of nobles , townsmen , and peasants . |
| 4 | Since the good faith and honesty of the protesters were admitted by all concerned , this seemed to bring them within the statutory defence regardless of whether their beliefs were reasonable or whether they were universally held . |
| 5 | Each one of them envisaged the scene where Hans Kramer , overwhelmed by their particular performance , begged to represent them in the international field . |
| 6 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 7 | And the Cid began to encourage them with a loud voice , shouting God and Santiago ! |
| 8 | She began to mince them into a fragrant green hill on the board in front of her . |
| 9 | Alex stomped by and declined to join them for an early morning cocktail . |
| 10 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 11 | Pupils got on so well with the decorators when the school got its first brush-up for more than a decade that they decided to remember them in a life-size painting . |
| 12 | There 's nothing to inspect and without my words the photographs are useless unless Mitch decided to sell them to the national Press . |
| 13 | Believing that efficient charge separation could only be possible if the electron donor ( that is , chlorophyll ) and the electron acceptor ( quinone ) were in close proximity , they decided to put them into the same molecule . |
| 14 | Moslems in Bosnia on Sept. 9 detained Milan Martic , the " Defence Minister " of the ( Serb ) " Krajina Republic " , together with three JNA officers but Bosnia 's Moslem President Alia Izetbegovic decided to release them to the federal authorities after Serbs threatened to attack the town . |
| 15 | She rolled out the pastry and , using a small cutter , cut out seven small tarts and started to place them in a six-sectioned tart tin . |
| 16 | The agency provided funds for a specifically approved line of research only , so Jones now decided to tell them of the new ideas . |
| 17 | Eventually , frantic with frustration , I managed to force them over the raw meat of my knuckles with my teeth , my sore and bleeding lips spreading red stains through the grating wool . |
| 18 | I held out my free hand to catch the gooey bits before they fell on the rug and , mischievously I thought , Dawn proceeded to place them in a precise bloody pile in the palm of my hand . |
| 19 | With a solid , straight-batted technique and a calm , unruffled temperament , Hudson proceeded to bat them into a commanding position on the second day , remaining through the 90 overs to finish on 135 . |
| 20 | About a year later one of the boys met an old lady who lived not far from the pond and they were discussing the strange happenings when the lady said , ‘ I can tell you a bit about it , ’ and she then proceeded to tell them about the crazy motorcyclist . |
| 21 | He said he supposed it was and offered to show them into the Intensive Care room which had a hot drinks machine . |
| 22 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 23 | If schemas are widely held , it should usually be obvious to the manager what they are — especially , of course , if he or she aimed to establish them in the first place . |
| 24 | The Orcs were also provided with food and reinforcements by Forest Goblins who flocked to join them from the Great Forest . |
| 25 | But a nice undertaker with a very smart 1950S hearse agreed to take them to the next town . |
| 26 | ‘ I kept sending the demands back and when I went in I was told not to worry , they had to send them to the last known address . |
| 27 | ( That is why we refused to treat them as a separate school . ) |
| 28 | The parents of 26 children refused to send them to the designated school and instead made arrangements for tuition to be given to them by , inter alios , a volunteer retired teacher , in rooms above a public house . |
| 29 | The generally accepted reason was that the French coffers were nearly empty and he wanted to replenish them from the vast treasures of the Knights Templars . |