Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on . |
| 2 | By formally merging , companies could continue their old practices within the merged company and take their chance if they got investigated by the MMC . |
| 3 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 4 | It was not that they went away , it was that they became interwoven with the strange elusive echoes and the memories that lingered in the vast dark Castle . |
| 5 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 6 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 7 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 8 | If only they 'd stayed in the little home on the train . |
| 9 | Being an intellectual or bourgeois did n't help that much in itself but those of their own journalists and professors they 'd sent to the remote prison island of their archipelago , Guru , had n't been systematically tortured ; just neatly excised from society for twenty years or the stay of their natural existences . |
| 10 | When they said goodbye they 'd embraced by the front door , a taxi waiting on the road outside . |
| 11 | The last time she and Arnie had eaten out they 'd gone to the local curry house where they went about four times a year . |
| 12 | They 'd gone through the big field and up on to the common and the slope beyond which was where the wall was , half-ruined and easier to jump because of the gaps . |
| 13 | How could she tell this hostile man that his brother had only suggested she pretend to be his fiancée as they 'd turned into the long drive leading up to Rocamar ? |
| 14 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 15 | Then they 'd returned to the stable and George had got back to the House about midnight . |
| 16 | In a few minutes they 'd left behind the head office of Chester Fabrics , driven past the fire-blackened fabric printing plant and escaped into the lush green countryside on the way back to Armscott Manor , the rambling Cotswold home of the Chesters for three generations . |
| 17 | that , that spoilt the course or were not relevant and they 'd forgotten about the relevant bits . |
| 18 | They 'd passed beyond the deciduous woods , and the trees on either side were conifers — larch , spruce and pine . |
| 19 | They stand condemned by the very tenets of their religions unless that religion is in itself a perverse and cancerous development which will in time kill what gave it birth in any case . |
| 20 | The principal transitions from one phase of people 's life to another were thought of as crises and as a result the community to which they belonged assisted with the appropriate rituals . |
| 21 | They get paid through the National Dock Labour Board . |
| 22 | They feel threatened by the two alternative prospects — move or take redundancy . |
| 23 | Many dolphins drown as the net is pulled and tightened towards the side of the seiner , and they become trapped in the closing mesh . |
| 24 | By this time they felt accepted into the local community , and part of it . |
| 25 | They grew used to the good life during the oil boom in the 1970s , an era they fondly recall as Venezuela Saudita . |
| 26 | The Audit Commission review which was published in 1986 identified five main obstacles which they thought accounted for the slow and fragmented way that community care had developed in England and Wales . |
| 27 | Do they get defined into the inner circle if there is a history of reciprocal support ? |
| 28 | I 'm of more use to him , if I carry his letters faithfully , than all the statutes and limitations and restrictions they 've clapped on the Welsh trade . |
| 29 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 30 | ‘ My guess is they 've gone to the other house , ’ he said quickly . |