Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Avignon 's captain , strolling down from the bridge in a crisp , freshly starched uniform , smiled on hearing their banter and approached to greet them both with a formal French handshake . |
| 2 | Isabel tried to yank them free . |
| 3 | There are few survivors of the first Holocaust because the Turks tried to kill them all and because age has now claimed most of the rest . |
| 4 | She said he threw the baby around , tried to strangle them all and ripped up the furniture . |
| 5 | The windows were tightly shut , and the rooms smelled stuffy , but not damp , though the drawers of the chest stuck as I tried to pull them open . |
| 6 | If you tried to remember them all as just these equations , you 'd be very easily getting confused about which one was which and you 'll just get your head cluttered with all sorts of stuff and so that way something that you know , something you can bring it back to . |
| 7 | The players sat as far away from her as they could , but the smell and the squealing promised to keep them awake all night . |
| 8 | The eggs would get broken if the mother animal tried to keep them warm , as the mother bird does , because she is so heavy . |
| 9 | Philip tried to hold them steady . |
| 10 | Beaten to death : A 45-year-old married man was beaten to death in Cardiff by a gang of teenage vandals after he tried to stop them damaging traffic bollards . |
| 11 | I would say that , instead of ‘ spoon-feeding ’ the residents , they tried to make them independent . |
| 12 | Their close contact with individual children or small groups seemed to give them some measure of what children can actually do in a foreign language in a relatively non-threatening way . |
| 13 | When , diffidently , he asked her if she would like to go to the pictures with him one evening , her immediate acceptance seemed to surprise them both . |
| 14 | Nationalism did not now overthrow orders , it seemed to make them stronger . |
| 15 | If the Government wo n't believe us when we tell them the truth , maybe they will now believe the people they paid to give them this report . |
| 16 | We hated to give them any encouragement but something might come of his uncle , if he existed . |
| 17 | In 1326 Scotland and France had concluded a new alliance , the Treaty of Corbeil , under which the French , while not being required to take military action on behalf of the Scots in any future conflict with England , agreed to give them diplomatic support , while the French obtained from the Scots an agreement to attack England in the event of war between the French and the English . |
| 18 | They would then take it in turns to piece together each others jigsaw , guaranteed to keep them happy for years . |
| 19 | So he stood with her , and held her , and very soon nature began to teach them both what to do , and before very long the neighbours heard a little shriek come from Pascoe 's cottage , and the old wives glanced and nodded to each other , content that the marriage had been consummated , and anxious to share with each other reminiscences of their own experiences in similar circumstances . |
| 20 | Not only did I get to model the clothes how I liked , I got to keep them all afterwards . |
| 21 | He planned to keep them idle , like some ship 's crew becalmed miles from shore . |
| 22 | He followed Carla into the kitchen and produced the coins for her to see , then started to flip them one by one . |
| 23 | The selectors could also have changed their top order , but decided to give them all another chance . |
| 24 | Marking the places from which they 'd come with scraps of paper , I decided to translate them first . |
| 25 | The result was two fragrances , which Laura liked equally , so they decided to introduce them both calling them , simply , Number 1 and Number 2 . |
| 26 | Only Frankie and Liza were in so I decided to tell them both what had happened . |
| 27 | It was gon na take quite a while so erm we got the base five as quickly as possible so that we had as many hands on the job at once and er we had some formwork getting spare so we decided to make them useful and it 's a case of we 'd got six tanks to do and if we had a breakage we ca n't afford to stop the programme so as a er , a standby , just in case , we may never use these we might three or four uses out of but if we do have a breakage we want to be able to replace that straight away so have a spare set and you 've got nothing more to do and er get the walls , get the er , the back build operation right at the very end , ongoing , till you 've got the waterproofers in er get the waterproofing up to the five meter level and er get the back build in as quickly as possible . |
| 28 | The present project will produce a complete transcription of the journals , edited to make them accessible to scholars and others interested in the many aspects of early nineteenth century life on which they throw light . |
| 29 | I ca n't find nothing here , except a couple of old spuds , and they ai n't no good cos you got to cook them first . |
| 30 | The man managed to pull them free after he heard their shouts for help at Towyn in Clwyd . |