Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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1 | The Goths , the Avars , the Lombards , the Huns , the Franks became absorbed in the Romanised populations they dominated . |
2 | With almost all the farms having stock on them for 365 days , and with wives restricted in the heavy work they could do , most men had quite a bit to do when they returned from work . |
3 | Activists also like being thrown in the deep end they quite like the challenge of being thrown in and sink or swim and learn from the experience , rather than actually talking about too much and then a little bit of action later . |
4 | This is because if such proceedings are commenced in the High Court they are liable to be struck out under s 40(1) ( b ) of the 1984 Act ( see below ) . |
5 | The barge anchors were unrecognisable as such , more like crustaceans , specimens of some giant type long since discarded by Nature , but still clinging to their old habitat , sunk in the deep pits they had made in the foreshore . |
6 | It is now their individual responsibility to decide the constitutional powers of these assemblies and to see how democratic parliaments may be established in the presidential systems they have adopted . |
7 | In the eleven general elections held in the Federal Republic they have successively numbered 2 , 3 , 3 , 5 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 0 , 1 , 2 and 1 — only 17 in all . |