Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] they [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As time goes on the need for such support will , obviously , diminish — it 's more than likely that your staff will become more conversant with the product than the person who either sold or trained them on it . |
| 2 | When the entire pile had been transferred , she bunched the needles together with her hands and alternately stroked and beat them with her karaso , knitting them into a kind of rudimentary bale . |
| 3 | The tracking and following of the youths , through rush-hour traffic , took Tom through most of Edinburgh New Town , and culminated , almost an hour later , with his flagging down a Police motor cyclist who stopped and questioned them at Mackenzie Place/India Place . |
| 4 | Cornelius stooped and returned them to him . |
| 5 | The storm came and drove them into their flimsy shelter . |
| 6 | They talked for ages , making their drinks last , and no one came and bothered them at all . |
| 7 | They claimed that Philip III of France , his court and his officers had recently ( a modico tempore ) hindered and troubled them by citing them before other courts — not only the Paris Parlement , but the court of the French seneschal of Périgord . |
| 8 | Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too . |
| 9 | While half of her brain hated and despised them for the job they were doing , the other half acknowledged that at least part of her present mission was to buy newspapers and read what was said . |
| 10 | Now in the lock museum I 've taken some locks th that I collected and took them over there they used to do speed locks butted locks sidecar locks er then , as the motor trade changed from all wood frames to metal frames , other types of locks , I took there but this is what is amazing me , they , at the lock museum they highlight all the Willinghall locks which are the padlocks , which are locks er wardrobe locks , cabinet locks and all the smaller type of locks but there was the biggest industry , I mean Walsall locks are still in existence now , they made er er locks for , for , for cars , the Bloxwich lock , that was their biggest trade was er , was er the bigger locks . |
| 11 | They were the sport of rich noblemen who hunted and ate them with terrific enthusiasm — until there were none . |
| 12 | Japan shredded a large proportion of the dolphins it hunted and turned them into fertiliser . |
| 13 | They were much favoured by the French ( hence the name ) , who developed and raised them to prominence in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , until the introduction of the Chinese wonders . |
| 14 | We sat stuffing ourselves with smoked-salmon sandwiches , slurping Earl Grey , while she charmed and intimidated them with her stolen airs and purloined graces . |
| 15 | How right we were : he drew plans with all the details we needed and submitted them for planning and building approval . |
| 16 | Well you should save the programmes you recorded and watch them on a Saturday . |
| 17 | I went and fetched them off the sheet counter . |
| 18 | She could not associate him with any loss of dignity , or credit , or grace , not because he felt these too nearly and jealously , but because he wore and used them with as little thought as the breath he drew , and they were as natural a part of him , and like breath , when they left him they would leave him dead . |
| 19 | They were in the collection of the local parish priest Johann Georg Martin Dursch ( 1800–1881 ) until King Wilhelm I bought and donated them to the town in 1850 . |
| 20 | Aunt Margaret hastily took a bunch of paper roses from a bag she carried and threw them at the stage . |
| 21 | It was thought that if Calvinism were undermined the Presbyterian churches would give up their people to the Episcopal Church ; in fact the slow waning of Calvinism in the Presbyterian fold took away the one advantage the Episcopalians had and doomed them to irrelevance . |
| 22 | It was this desire to win that dragged and sucked them into the war . |
| 23 | He said but I sit at night he said when she 's gone to work and he said and help them with their drawings and things they 're doing . |
| 24 | I said well what the hell 's she doing Arthur , if she do n't want them tell her to come , send them in here I said and give them to the kids . |
| 25 | I stood and watched them for a while , training my binoculars on them and seeming , now and again in the shifting images of light , to discern structures around them . |
| 26 | At home she unloaded and stacked them in the basement . |
| 27 | He plucked and ate them with surprising sensuality , sucking out the juice and spitting the pips into his left hand . |