Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if the police , or anyone else , will think there must be something wrong with them for them to have got such letters in the first place . ’ |
| 2 | Johnny Cooper thought it almost impossible that three men carrying only sixty small bombs between them had created such havoc and destruction . |
| 3 | In their assumption of systematically traceable content , either reflected or mediated , they have considerable common ground , and between them have produced much valuable work . |
| 4 | Of the teachers we spoke to , two-fifths reported that they had rearranged their furniture , and well over nine-tenths of them had made some kind of change to their classrooms as a direct consequence of suggestions or recommendations made to them as part of the Primary Needs Programme . |
| 5 | They sat together , in the small-sized chairs brought up by Balor , and ate their breakfasts and told one another was n't this the finest meal ever and would they all look at the roasting oxen , because it was a long time , well it was years , really , since any of them had seen such a sight . |
| 6 | By 1811 only some rural parishes were without any provision , while most of them had registered some improvement over the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | Neither of them had breakfasted that morning . |
| 8 | A survey of Aberdeen University students conducted by Peter McKellar showed that about two thirds of them had experienced these sensations , which were slightly more often auditory sensations than visual ones . |
| 9 | 1910 is the year in which the Cubist painters , other than Picasso and Braque , came together as a conscious group , although many of them had known each other earlier . |
| 10 | Neither of them had expected this . |
| 11 | Oh no of course ver very few of them had got any work . |
| 12 | But if one of them had shown some of the you never , you 'd never get scenes like that . |
| 13 | Suppose one of them had used this knife onm me ? |
| 14 | Solihull teachers were strongly so , but it should be recalled that only a relatively small proportion of them had had any direct experience of the process . |
| 15 | Here the regionals started with the advantage of not being as bloated as the big banks in the first place , and most of them have stayed that way . |
| 16 | As the Party has grown and recruited more articulate and able activists , a number of the old ‘ war-horses ’ have been put out to grass and , quite naturally , some of them have resented this . |
| 17 | Some of them have spent more terms in schools than others — which must be borne in mind when looking at the position of an individual pupil — but all those factors even out in the local authorities . |
| 18 | And Carl sa I was speaking to Carl today and he said , well surely , you know the three of them have weighed that up ? |
| 19 | Incidentally , Michael Land reckons that there are nine basic principles for image-forming that eyes use , and that most of them have evolved many times independently . |
| 20 | provided all all of them have got that one in . |
| 21 | Yeah worth switching on anyway , quite a few of them have got these er carriages in ? |
| 22 | But the thing is that now , I mean now that most of them have got some sort of house , an' there 's food an' money around , they know they 're better off but , honest , they know they 've got nothin' as well . |
| 23 | So some of them have got both sides , some of them have got a mixture . |
| 24 | Well yeah and there 's a couple of factors , one is a good they may er er some of them have got more power , yeah ? |
| 25 | With them have gone much of the outrageously condescending theorising expressed by professionals such as Watney Mann 's head designer Roy Wilson-Smith , who declared in the early 70s : |
| 26 | In literature , though there are still cases of artisanal and distributive post-artisanal relations , productive post-artisanal relations have long been dominant , and important internal changes within them have taken much publishing into a later market phase . |
| 27 | In between they have experienced all sorts of eccentric people and weird events . |
| 28 | They relate to a brief two-year crisis period in her forty-four year life ; and although they are by no means irrelevant to her political role , the approach to them has had such a predominantly personal — one might almost say tabloid — quality that the historiographical Mary is immediately marked out from all other historical monarchs , Scottish or otherwise . |
| 29 | Ever since the age of 13 I 've been hoping my spots would go away — but constant picking at them has left some scars . ’ |