Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
2 | Prior to laying the information Mrs Bujok had not served an abatement notice upon the council or informed them of the alleged defects in the premises . |
3 | I 'm never quite sure really to be honest whether these individuals had an interview with Jesus or Jesus had an interview with them , because whether they thought that Jesus or whether they thought they were doing the , the probing and the questioning really it was Jesus who was in charge of the interview , you may of watched er certain chat shows on the , on the television or heard them on the radio and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and its the interviewer who really is being put through it , its the , its the person who 's being interviewed is in charge of the situation and that was the case here Jesus . |
4 | You may have watched er , certain chat shows on the , on the television , or heard them on the radio , and er depending who the person being interviewed is , very often it actually changes , and it 's the interviewer who is really being put through it it 's the , it 's the person being interviewed who is in charge of the situation and that was the case here with Jesus . |
5 | Often Minoan worshippers tore branches or boughs from a sacred tree and venerated them on altars or planted them in the sockets between sacral horns . |
6 | I refer , of course , to unsupported mothers , women who have neither shirked their obligation to have children , nor left them to seek jobs , nor abandoned them to the tender mercies of the social services — , |
7 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
8 | Then he took the stones from their pouch and laid them at the bottom of the Bowl . |
9 | So all attending had brought their freshly picked bunches with them and laid them on the coffin as they arrived , and I must say that it looked — and smelled — lovely . |
10 | A human chain of soldiers , castle employees and members of the royal family carried out paintings , carpets , furniture , Sevres vases , books and drawings and laid them on the lawns before being transported by convoys of lorries . |
11 | Carson appeared with the towels , a bath-sized and two hand-sized , and laid them on the duvet by her bag . |
12 | She took some notes from her pocketbook and laid them on the table by her plate and her half-empty glass . |
13 | George Yaxlee took the contents of the back pocket and laid them on the mantelshelf . |
14 | He took the locket and the manuscript out of his pocket and laid them on the desk in front of the headmaster . |
15 | Zen took out a notepad and pencil and laid them on the desk . |
16 | Carter took out his packet of cigarettes and a box of matches and laid them on the locker . |
17 | Ronni carried them indoors and laid them on the kitchen table , scarcely able to bear the mouth-watering aromas that were escaping from beneath the tin foil . |
18 | As the half-stifled bees crawled drunkenly across the stone and straw , they swiftly cut most of the heavy slabs of honeycomb off the sticks and laid them in the leather sacks . |
19 | Downstairs , the old man gathered together the piles of coins and laid them in the tin chest . |
20 | Ivan had wrapped them together in the curtains his mother had made for the sitting room , and laid them in the bottom of the grave . |
21 | Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table . |
22 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
23 | At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies . |
24 | He gestured towards the table with an amiable smile and led them to the gate . |
25 | The count simply abandoned the small , expensive aircraft and led them to the car . |
26 | They collected their horses from the stables and led them through the cold , bustling streets . |
27 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
28 | A pack leader saw the police in hot pursuit , called six Sturmabteilungen to him and led them into the stadium . |
29 | Lady Macleod received the travellers in ‘ a stately dining-room ’ , fed them and led them into the drawing-room for tea to meet the family . |
30 | He pulled a helpless face , took off his glasses , and wiped them on the tail of his shirt . |