Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [prep] those " in BNC.
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| 1 | The working man was so successfully emancipated that he ( and even more , polls suggest , his wife ) ceased to defer to those who said they were his public spokesmen . |
| 2 | The third area I need to take you through is some erm typographical amendments to the resolutions that you have in front of you , so if you just bear with me I proposed to go through those and perhaps if you want to mark them on the sheets as I go through and if I 'm going too fast erm just wave . |
| 3 | Coming in by train to Waverley I tried to identify with those tourists ‘ seeing ’ Edinburgh Castle for the first time . |
| 4 | ‘ Your reflections , ’ Hope cried out to the apparently enraptured merchant , ‘ set off my own — as do all the most acute thoughts , scattering from the hand like seeds , each of which can take on a life of its own , and I confess that I became absorbed in those great matters of morality and commerce raised by your eloquent conversation . ’ |
| 5 | And it came to pass in those days , that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . |
| 6 | I 'd forgotten about those two . ’ |
| 7 | I 'm sure there are people who do n't sort of bother with them at all , you know just saw er a man he dropped he 's erm , he dropped his till receipt and he looked as if he had a tremendous amount you know in his basket so I reckon it would of been over , but there was no erm cos you get it stamped yes so we have er , yes I 'd forgotten about those little erm chickens of course , so we can have that roast |
| 8 | Let's improvise something , as we 'd done on those remarkable nights six years ago . |
| 9 | A romantic little episode , yet the intensity of what she 'd felt in those moments could have overwhelmed her completely if she had n't remembered Didi 's words . |
| 10 | Well I think it was the discipline that you 'd got in those days . |
| 11 | Anyway , the clergyman who came to look after those who were C of E got to know about Grandma 's skill as a sewer and also knew that a little bit of extra money would be welcome in her household . |
| 12 | I can understand er I mean we had some calls off er last week mainly because erm we we took we 'd spoken to those people before Christmas and we do expect people to drop out . |
| 13 | I thought about all the young men who 'd climbed into those machines and the death they 'd seen and the death they 'd made and the death they 'd received . |
| 14 | Despite the material and social disadvantages that Harry had suffered as a child , he still seemed to think of those early years as happy ones . |
| 15 | The same people who 'd listened to those jokes were laughing in earnest now ; were calling him ridiculous . |
| 16 | All the colours of the sky seemed captured in those endless folds of whiteness . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm probably not compassionate or anything , I bet I 'm a real bastard inside and do n't care for anyone , but I fucking hated treading up those stairs to Mum , especially with Jean at the bottom watching my every step . |
| 18 | Geneva was still technically under the Holy Roman Empire where the Justinian code allowed burning for those who denied either infant baptism or the divinity of Christ . |
| 19 | Remarkably , its arguments began to sound like those of the Central Electricity Generating Board , as it sought to cast doubt on the very existence of an acid rain problem . |
| 20 | In other words , a positional good can not be shared without losing some of its value ; consequently as the countryside became more accessible during the 1960s , thanks mainly to increasing car ownership , so the value of the rural environment began to fall to those already in possession — and they quickly mobilized to defend their interests . |
| 21 | The team was underfinanced from the start and indeed , some of the finance Emerson did get-like some of the companions and hangers-on he began to attract in those years — was distinctly off-colour . |
| 22 | As 1968 dawned and events accelerated Jones 's politics began to skew from those of his co-founders . |
| 23 | I should , of course , in the event that they began disposing of those I like — you , Sunil , that rather delicious young Wu and that engaging Armenian . |
| 24 | Through Cripps the campaign became linked with those favouring " Unity " of the Left . |
| 25 | Some people decided to work with those having the same type of impairment as themselves . |
| 26 | The ‘ expert ’ opinions of my first sled varied between those who thought that the joints and lashings were too loose , and those who thought them too tight ! |
| 27 | ‘ I decided to smack into those issues head-on , ’ Jordan agrees . |
| 28 | However , in reality the number of jobs lost compared with those gained in the major growth industry of pollution control is small . |
| 29 | A significantly smaller proportion of patients with colonic disease survived compared with those with Crohn 's disease of the terminal ileum or mixed sites ( χ 2 2 1 =9 , p<0.01 and χ 2 2 1 = 4.7 , p<0.05 respectively ) . |
| 30 | We had other social policy commitments and we also needed to keep to those . |