Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , the council 's took it over , they sold it to this bloke . |
| 2 | They described themselves to each other as being virtuous even , and certainly industrious . |
| 3 | before they transferred him to another prison . |
| 4 | They subjected her to verbal abuse . |
| 5 | The Mitchells were granted permission to burn charcoal from coppiced timber at Hangman 's Wood if they returned it to this state of management . |
| 6 | they always seemed backward , they found that they took them to different specialist and the truth is , they 've both left school now and got jobs , but they were er , dyslexia |
| 7 | They took me to Lochleven Castle , and put me in a room like a prison . |
| 8 | Any farm worker could easily anticipate the consequences of ‘ going against ’ the local farmers , so for the most part they resigned themselves to this situation , bit their tongues rather than spoke out and developed what is by now their notorious taciturnity and ability to ‘ keep themselves to themselves ’ . |
| 9 | They gave themselves to each other naturally , confident that she would take and hold as he would thrust and that she would give to let him thrust again — long and deep , longer and deeper , longer and deeper still — till both their hearts were thudding and each was lost in the act . |
| 10 | Cos erm they gave it to this woman and the woman gave it to me . |
| 11 | They buttressed me to some degree from the isolation I felt . |