Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] they [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 These call-slips , as submitted , already contained much of the information required , but for the purposes of the Survey additional information was added to them both by the members of staff to whom they were submitted , and by fieldwork students from the College of Librarianship Wales who physically examined the requested items before their delivery to readers .
2 Second , the small congregation at St Barnabas ' , of some fifteen , that were to be ‘ moved in on ’ had had to accept radical changes that were presented to them prior to the move for their agreement .
3 He had an alley mate , the man on the next machine , who pulled the levers for both of them at one end while William 's grandad pulled for them both at the other .
4 As with the indecent assaults on males , the predominant feature of these reports is that they are concerned with men abusing their positions of trust rather than being some unknown sex beasts who are assaulting victims not known to them prior to the offence .
5 There is a growing realisation that science and technology have embodied within them many of the ideological assumptions of the society which has given rise to them .
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