Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] they [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 2 | She has come to tell them about the opportunities which await them if they are prepared to make the long journey to Oregon . |
| 3 | On the other hand apologists for such policies rarely if ever sought to justify them on the grounds that they would reduce the real wage rate à la Malinvaud . |
| 4 | Cacheris had sought to reassure them over the guarantees of civil liberties governing trials in the USA . |
| 5 | Officials usually knew who they were , though they could not obtain the evidence needed to convict them in the courts . |
| 6 | There 's people out there with stories to tell , and we 've got to get them into the bookshops , get something different on the shelves . |
| 7 | The hideous iron railings round the tombs of the more opulent dead were intended to protect them against the depredations of body-snatchers . |
| 8 | Anyone finding the tablets is asked to hand them into the police . |