Example sentences of "[vb pp] they [art] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Lowell had heard them a few times before on the Sundays when life was normal and they were just background music at the commencement of an ordinary day . |
2 | But he agreed the police could have given them a few day 's notice of the situation . |
3 | Its object was to reduce disparity in sentences of imprisonment , and to remove the difficulty which judges faced when Parliament had told them no more than the maximum sentence for a particular crime : see Reflections on the English Sentencing System by Professor Sir Rupert Cross , Child & Co . |
4 | They were all in the kitchen where she had left them a few minutes earlier . |
5 | Manorial records in general concerned themselves solely with the head tenants ; the name of an undertenant might occur only incidentally , as at Long Crendon in 1535 when the vicar of Thame was presented for letting two tenements by indenture for ten years to William Byrte , from whom , in fact , he had purchased them a few years previously . |