Example sentences of "[noun] was [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 2 | But Platt insisted that his only interest in Diego Maradona 's old club was beating them at the weekend to boost Bari 's survival chances . |
| 3 | These were old aims but the intention was to pursue them with greater vigour and effectiveness . |
| 4 | So we put them all into bin bags and we was trying to carry these bin bags so the wind was taking them like balloons ! |
| 5 | Japanese records suggest that Kim was opposing them in May 1929 . |
| 6 | On the way home in the taxi ( Nigel was indulging them for once — he could n't let Gina use her bike under the circumstances ) he took delight in telling her she had a spot on her backside . |
| 7 | Originally , the plan was to return them to their last known home , on Pitchfork Ranch near the little town of Meeteetsee , Wyoming . |
| 8 | He knew well enough that convincing politicians was a tough job , so his plan was to present them with an informed and insistent electorate of the future . |
| 9 | Because these areas contained many people of Slovenian stock , Tito was claiming them as parts of a " Greater Yugoslavia " . |
| 10 | From their point of view , the most reasonable way to interpret these strange articles was to regard them as headgear . |
| 11 | Where the programme is most revealing is in its assumption that the proper way of handling young refugees was to treat them as if they were entrants to a minor public school . |
| 12 | Mrs. Jarrett was leaving them with a legacy . |
| 13 | His job was to talk them through any roadblocks . |
| 14 | Flowers looked at fault , but the happy Town fans chanted ‘ Goddard for England ’ while the band was serenading them during the interval . |
| 15 | The aim was to put them on the spot — or at least to impress the Inspector with your knowledge and concern . |
| 16 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 17 | His aim was to reconvert them to a Unitarian Christianity devoid of superstition . |
| 18 | The aim was to keep them in as long as possible , for without them the people employed to do the menial duties would have no time to relax … |
| 19 | As they returned to Swinbrook on Grye , the gipsy horse , the trees of Wychwood closed in about them and Carrie imagined the sadly diminished yet still proud forest was protecting them from the rest of the world . |
| 20 | It was not so much meanness that restrained her , as a profound mistrust of her own organizations : and also she felt obscurely , that to invite people into her own room was to condemn them to boredom and unease . |
| 21 | ‘ They are based on a freelance design and one of the main things was make them with a view to easy maintenance , ’ explained Mr Blackhurst . |
| 22 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |
| 23 | Being English , she thought that a sure way of bestowing pleasure on strangers was to compliment them on their dogs . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought Oliver was getting them for Rosie . ’ |
| 25 | The subsequent chronology of the licences , as well as the varying charges for them , reveal that the king was granting them for political and financial ends , to make friends and raise cash , particularly from the late 1290s when he desperately needed both . |
| 26 | On the one hand papal taxation was preserving them from Edward 's attentions , except for customary feudal dues and prerogative levies ; it is safe to assume that the laity were adapting readily to the notion of leaving the tax burden , or as much of it as they could , to the clergy . |
| 27 | Agnese was leading them through the front door into a cool tiled hallway , strewn with locally woven rugs and sweet with the delicate scent of freesias . |
| 28 | One way of showing them respect was to enclose them in reliquaries and enrich these with precious substances . |
| 29 | Old Ladjang remonstrated with him quietly , but the others were silent , and we realized that our captain was infecting them with a subtle but poisonous hostility towards us . |
| 30 | All of them were drawn together on the basis of a conviction similar to our own that God was calling them to something new . |