Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] they [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its voice seemed to hover over them all . |
| 2 | I recall those things because of their typicality : this is what the English and Welsh grammar schools were like , and ( more surprisingly ) were still like when I began to teach in them ten years after the 1944 Act . |
| 3 | At the same time , the Spanish regime was not actively hostile to the Allies , for it needed to obtain from them vital supplies of rubber , petroleum , cotton and wheat . |
| 4 | In the early studies we chose to look at them twenty-four hours after training on the grounds that any structural change would take time to build up , ; more recently he has pushed the earliest time at which changes can be found back to as little as an hour after the bird pecks the bead . |
| 5 | Because come somebody saying , and just giving me them , I had to go through them all . |
| 6 | And you had to stay with them all the while ? |