Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] they [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logging remains crucial to the economy in the central provinces of Binh Dinh and Gia Lai and the bans are seen as being largely for international consumption , with little effort made to enforce them on the ground . |
| 2 | All who have kept wild animals as pets or got to know them in the wild have come to realize that they each have their own personality and manner of expression , within the constraints of that species ’ natural instincts . |
| 3 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 4 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 5 | Well I tried to fix them on the door and they would n't stay |
| 6 | In some of the more remote parishes , sculptures and carvings escaped the attentions of the iconoclasts , and elsewhere ornamental features such as carved fonts were boarded over and plastered to protect them from the commissioners . |
| 7 | When the first Vietnamese arrived in 1975 after the fall of Saigon , the federal government tried to spread them around the country . |
| 8 | Not long ago , my parents were driving home late at night when , for no apparent reason , a car full of men tried to force them off the road . |
| 9 | Frost 's friends stormed out of court , followed by police who tried to disperse them from the court car park . |
| 10 | He tried to educate them about the nature of demythologizing , a word of which the press had got hold , and to guide them about the best modern writing on the New Testament . |
| 11 | We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about . |
| 12 | As the rebels , sword in hand , ran after the retreating cavalry , sonic of the royal infantry stood their ground and tried to take them in the flank but the heavy rain had left most of their cartridges too damp to fire and the frustrated musketeers thereupon also took to their heels . |
| 13 | So he tried to show them on the piano . |
| 14 | ‘ You 've got chilblains ! ’ their mother said when she came to see them at the beginning of December . |
| 15 | ‘ Fairly early on we decided we 'd have separate people doing the Dalek voices because the actors hired to work them from the inside were being engaged more for their physical skills in manipulating Daleks than for their formal acting abilities , made redundant by the energies just to operate them . ’ |
| 16 | Their personal responsibility for decision-making seemed to elevate them above the social struggle , to make them neutral arbiters between the competing interests of nobles , townsmen , and peasants . |
| 17 | Since the good faith and honesty of the protesters were admitted by all concerned , this seemed to bring them within the statutory defence regardless of whether their beliefs were reasonable or whether they were universally held . |
| 18 | The snow would certainly invade the tops of her boots when she stepped out of the car , and she swore softly in Ruthenian as she retrieved the groceries from the floor of the car and turned to carry them into the house . |
| 19 | Each one of them envisaged the scene where Hans Kramer , overwhelmed by their particular performance , begged to represent them in the international field . |
| 20 | You began to see them in the expensive cars . |
| 21 | While he was talking to her , Melissa took the twins out of the pushchair and began to carry them around the store , one balanced on each hip , until she found somewhere to sit down . |
| 22 | In the Peak District and Northumberland National Parks many people held overnight vigils on appointed summits on the Friday and Saturday nights , while others walked to meet them on the summit . |
| 23 | Silver roused the others and began to coax them into the field . |
| 24 | Sister Cooney picked up a pile of books and began to replace them on the shelves . |
| 25 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 26 | The audience sat in tiers round the front half of the orchestra , which thus served to separate them from the skene . ) |
| 27 | Frank took off his glasses and began to polish them in the sheet with enthusiasm . |
| 28 | In his characteristic phrase , " I am their leader , I must follow them " — but he determined to follow them from the front . |
| 29 | As Uncle George drove off , Carol began to tell them about the strange flight she 'd had on the broomstick , but then her gaze was caught by several dark objects lying in the snow of the lane ahead . |
| 30 | There 's nothing to inspect and without my words the photographs are useless unless Mitch decided to sell them to the national Press . |