Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] they in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Since the early part of the 1960s the sense that the universities needed to take their national role more seriously , as Reid had reminded them in 1948 , had been somewhat enhanced by the appointment of the Robbins Committee . |
| 5 | The two men knew that the USSR had matched them in nuclear terms , believed that the Soviets could help to extricate America from the ‘ unwinnable ’ Vietnam war , and hoped to deal with Russia on rational , balance-of-power terms instead of the ideological rivalry of the past . |
| 6 | And whoever took this four marb eight marbles had chucked them in this hole and if a even number come out it was mine , if a odd number came out then he 'd take the eight . |
| 7 | At first , Lucien had watched them in awed fascination , hardly daring to practise any movements himself for fear of ridicule . |
| 8 | Although the LTTE denied involvement in the assassination , it was widely noted that they had a strong motive , believing that Gandhi had betrayed them in 1987 when he dispatched the Indian army in an unsuccessful effort to bring Sri Lanka 's civil strife under control [ see p. 35313 ] . |
| 9 | But he had locked them in last night and he had done so on orders from the Gruagach so they did not dare rely on him . |
| 10 | It meant that women could work towards defining their own autonomous sexuality , independent of the social institutions of marriage and the family which had fixed them in oppressive relationships with men . |
| 11 | All he had was the certainty that whatever steps had been taken that day had led them in one direction only . |
| 12 | Until then , Japanese drug firms ' poor R&D and their emphasis on selling imported drugs had left them in poor shape to compete internationally . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's so humid , ’ they moaned , and they wondered why it was that the storm had left them in this stifling , steamy condition when storms were supposed to clear the air . |
| 14 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 15 | She had used inexperienced girls with no make-up , she had shown their deliberately unshaven armpits , she had dressed them in creased and crumpled frocks — the mood shot taken to its logical conclusion , perhaps , as well as an echo of her mother 's antipathy towards using professional models , but a far cry from the traditional ‘ Laura Ashley ’ image of strawberries-and-cream-tea on the lawn . |
| 16 | Furthermore , a quarter of the freeholdings were in the hands of completely different families from those which had held them in 1575 . |
| 17 | Although the Ramsay Committee had suggested them in 1945 , they were never established . |
| 18 | Browning traced the works to the collection owned jointly by Leon Levy , a New York financier , and Shelby White , who had purchased the pieces from the Ariadne Galleries in New York who , in their turn , had acquired them in good faith . |
| 19 | He had read them in more languages , too . |