Example sentences of "they [vb base] [be] [vb pp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and I live in a place where there 's a lot of old people and they come round to us and they tell us they 've been scared the night after |
| 2 | Semi-nomadic tribes live on the fringes of the notorious Empty Quarter desert , where they have been given the task by Sultan Qaboos and the World Wildlife Fund of reintroducing the rare Arabian Oryx ( antelope ) to its natural habitat . |
| 3 | They have been granted the tenancy of a 71-acre county council holding at Underbank , Gawsworth , near Macclesfield . |
| 4 | Until now they have been spared the encounter with large ‘ megastores ’ , fast becoming commonplace in every major city . |
| 5 | A number of them have been denied the opportunity to collect the awards for nearly 50 years by the former communist regime . |