Example sentences of "[vb pp] they [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the archaeologists ' obsession with the past had blinded them to the real cause of the lamentations they witnessed along the river . |
| 3 | ‘ In this case it 's because they believe you 've tricked them over the supposed disappearance of Clarion Call . |
| 4 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 5 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 6 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 7 | ‘ Two men … someone must have let them in the front door … they took Jacqui … ’ |
| 8 | But perhaps he could not have attracted them to The Other Story . |
| 9 | Nothing in the three villagers ' long but sheltered past could have prepared them for the horrendous sight that met their eyes . |
| 10 | Perhaps they had been loaded on the train many hours before Holly , because they seemed to him to be sleeping when he had first seen them in the darkened carriage . |
| 11 | By the time she had fed them with the filthy stuff , she was covered in oil and stuck all over with cotton fly . |
| 12 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 13 | They had bought them in the local sex shop in the hope of saving the money they would normally spend on E. So what were they like ? |
| 14 | The teacher had helped them with the capital letter to begin the sentence and the full stop at the end . |
| 15 | if it is not clear how the words were in fact understood , the question is how a reasonable listener would have interpreted them in the particular context . |
| 16 | He was still shuffling videos on the shelves as if having suddenly noticed that someone — herself , probably — had replaced them in the wrong order . |
| 17 | British exporters have been extremely successful and that is because the Government have provided them with the right framework for success . |
| 18 | My flocks of thought have dispersed and become lost for I have not marked them with the branding iron of the images . |
| 19 | Unionists proved quite able to handle the new mass electorate , and their efforts to gear up to meet new challenges in and after 1911 had set them on the right road . |
| 20 | Mrs Fletcher had brought them round the previous night . |
| 21 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 22 | In the mid-1950s he had introduced them to the Naval College in Rhode Island . |
| 23 | Since you may well be as unfamiliar with the basic concepts as Duchy 's two directors were , we have followed them through the preliminary learning process . |
| 24 | Customs had waved them through the green section . |
| 25 | And they have led them under the false belief that a negotiated solution was seriously pursued . |
| 26 | And it came to him , with a cold steely horror chilling the bloodstream as if from a lethal injection — he had left them in the stolen mini . |
| 27 | The flood apart from ruining their home made their own car which should have taken them for the fully-paid honeymoon in Scotland , float off down the road and crash into another car . |
| 28 | We had taken them with the aforementioned pinch of salt . |
| 29 | When will the Department publish the review of the social fund , which we have long awaited , and when will he restore the right of the poorest in our society to a grant for essential items such as clothing , furniture and cookers , which have been denied them under the current system ? |
| 30 | How- ever , the first instalment of the kingdom would soon be sent them by the ascended King himself . |