Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] they [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 2 | Generally middle-aged , they may even have children who are working for the left-wing opposition , but their own closed environment has protected them from any understanding of the reality of their country . |
| 3 | There are cases where owners genuinely believe that their pet cat has followed them by some mystical means to a new home several thousand miles away from the original one . |
| 4 | He is amazed by the complex destiny which has put them before each other like this , two solid independent creatures face to face , two selves , with a common background and a common source of reference in Goethe 's Faust . |
| 5 | Yet in their own terms they seem fairly content with their lives , and they do not rail against the fate that has left them with this role . |
| 6 | She was always a busy , tidy little girl , going around the house at night making sure all the curtains were drawn and tucking up the zoo of small furry animals which crowded her bed — she has kept them to this day . |
| 7 | In a most interesting essay in the recent volume of Essays on the Depopulation of Melanesia the great psychologist W. H. R. Rivers adduces evidence which has led him to believe that the natives of that unfortunate archipelago are dying out principally for the reason that the ‘ Civilization ’ forced upon them has deprived them of all interest in life . |
| 8 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 9 | Giving Martin Bramah and Marcia Scofield the flick has deprived them of more than just some choppily percussive guitar phrasings and deft keyboard work . |
| 10 | He 'd seen 'em like that afore and a good gallop put 'em right . |
| 11 | and he 'd done them like that in microwave for eight minutes and er , done sprouts then he 'd put this meat pie in oven |
| 12 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 13 | He had n't slept in a bed like that before , yet there were all those advertisements for them on television , and they were on display in shop windows and in almost all the big stores in London so that I 'd imagined them in all the houses I could see from the bus . |
| 14 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 15 | I think , er you know , they 're just a , you know , if , if they were erm elm trees or something like that , or you know blackthorn trees here and you 'd taken them in this country , you 'd say , oh there 's a couple of blackthorn trees ! |
| 16 | Especially when Charity and her mother had done their very best to help with a problem that need not have concerned them at all . |
| 17 | It turned out that she did n't realise they were down , but thinks she must have pushed them into that position when dropping the ribber . |
| 18 | Frederica said obviously that the sky and the sea and the boats were uncannily like Van Gogh , and Hodgkiss said that of course they would never have seen them in this way before he saw them . |
| 19 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 20 | An especially clear example is in the fabliau Boivin de Provins , in which the hero , Boivin , having deluded a household of whores into providing him with a meal and a girl for free , and having set them at each other 's throats , goes off to tell the provost of the town the tale , who in turn spreads the tale around , producing much mirth and laughter . |
| 21 | But whalers could have enlightened them in this respect , for they knew that whales possessed acute hearing , the constant ‘ twittering ’ of the White whale even earning it the name of the sea canary . |
| 22 | If their historical interest had saved them from the pick , the swinging steel ball , and the bulldozer , their intractable lay-out had discouraged renovators who might have put them to some use . |
| 23 | It would seem highly unlikely , except at the times when falling piece rates forced them to , that domestic workers averaged such hours through the week , although they must have worked them on some days , if only to make up for slacker work early in the week . |
| 24 | Over the two matches we were every bit as good as Liverpool and , if we 're honest , we know we should have beaten them on both occasions . |
| 25 | Although the ceremonies contained in the Directory of Public Worship remained the official liturgy of the English church throughout the period from 1645 to the Restoration , few English parishes appear to have welcomed them with any enthusiasm , and all over the country clergymen continued to conduct services based substantially on the old Book of Common Prayer . |
| 26 | ‘ To have blown them after all that would have been awful . ’ |
| 27 | She regarded the Tollemarche ladies as being outside the pale , and had treated them with such blatant condescension that they had quailed , and had sought her goodwill by voting her hastily into offices in those organizations in which she had deigned to take an interest . |
| 28 | I 've given them to that solicitor that |
| 29 | The new technology of automation had stripped them of any human dignity in their labour . |
| 30 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |