Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by [art] germans " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the initial successes of the Normandy landings , the Allied armies had been pinned down by the Germans . |
| 2 | This was a newly independent state formed by the Allies around the nucleus of the Polish puppet state set up by the Germans in 1916 . |
| 3 | The Slovene Domobranci ( or Home Guard ) were a militia set up by the Germans to take part in operations against Tito 's partisans . |
| 4 | To avoid his being rounded up by the Germans for STO ( Service du Travail Obligatoire ) and sent to the munitions factories in the east , Montaine and Mme Guérigny hid Jean-Claude in a sunken hollow in the grounds of a crumbling manor house at the edge of the village . |
| 5 | There the Kaszubians occupied smallholdings ; all the better farmland towards the coast had long since been taken over by the Germans . |
| 6 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |
| 7 | Bruin many years later became the CO of No 84 Squadron in Greece — that is before we were all thrown out by the Germans and , let me say at this stage , aided and abetted by a rather unmentionable faction of Greek insurgence . |