Example sentences of "[vb past] they [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people feared involvement in popular education because it made them immediate targets of the Contras . ’ |
| 2 | But the sheer range and volume of business with which the secretaries of state dealt made them important officers of government . |
| 3 | The Central Area pulled all these parts together , as it were , and made them interdependent portions of the whole . |
| 4 | He led the People of Israel out of slavery in Egypt , led them through the Red Sea , led them forty years in the wilderness and brought them safely to Palestine , Eretz Yisroel . ’ |
| 5 | The procedural structure of trusts also lent them great advantages in setting up dispositions in favour of third parties , and enhanced the chances of those dispositions being observed and enforced . |
| 6 | The belt tying the skirt on drew the bodice edges in round the breasts ( if they were to be exposed ) and presumably lent them some support from the sides and from below . |
| 7 | Gibson sold them four trees on the estate " … all of poor value … " part at 1s. a foot and partly at 1s. 6d . |
| 8 | ‘ After The White Lion won they gave me £6,000 and told me to get them another , so I sold them three shares in Rambo 's Hall — who I 'd bought cheaply in a job lot as a yearling — for £1,500 each . |
| 9 | Got involved and cooled it down a bit and er and found some of the people some premises , and I think got them some money from Duke of Edinburgh award scheme or something , to buy music music equipment . |
| 10 | Er er got them last week from Freeman Hardy and Willis . |
| 11 | They sported ditches and hedges and he built them proper jumps in the hedgerows to practise over and life got far more earnest and dangerous . |
| 12 | I agree one hundred per cent with Graeme Souness when he insists it was that last 10 minutes in the Lenin Stadium which cost them eventual victory against Spartak Moscow . |
| 13 | Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea . |
| 14 | He probably told them all lies like that . |
| 15 | The new law of prohibition of alcohol afforded them marvellous matter for the pleading of the liberty of men and women against the tyranny of majorities , and they sang or preached several eloquent perorations in praise of freedom . |
| 16 | President Borja ended months of hostility between the government and the Quechua , Achuar and Shiwiar tribes , representing 148 communities and an estimated 20,000 indigenous people , when on May 13 he granted them legal title to more than 3,000,000 acres of homelands in the eastern province of Pastaza . |
| 17 | Andy Kiwomya 's pace caused them all sorts of trouble as Dundee made the early running . |
| 18 | But even though the makers recalled them last year to be modified , more than 35,000 still have not been returned . |
| 19 | Since the birth of their sons , Felix ( now aged four ) and Max ( one ) , the Roberts were lucky enough to take over the raised ground floor which not only gave them more space but also allowed them vital access to the garden . |
| 20 | At one time , the Club went as far as refusing to allow juveniles a reduced entrance price for the London Road terrace but allowed them half price for other areas . |
| 21 | You free yourself of the hold others had over you when you allowed them this control over your life . |
| 22 | if management took an interest in the workforce and allowed them some control over their environment then the workforce would feel less alienated from the workplace ; |
| 23 | Father Peter waved them back to their seats and went across and poured them generous stoups of ale from the jar just outside the small buttery door . |
| 24 | Chris Lawrence , in working with a class of London children , showed them some photographs of ‘ dancers ’ whom the children were later to meet and instruct on the movement of animals . |
| 25 | Father Peter took three earthenware bowls from a small cupboard near the inglenook and served them generous portions of soup from a black bowl which hung perilously from an iron hook above the flames . |
| 26 | They could take those who still owed them large sums to the Insolvent Debtors Court . |
| 27 | TWO hundred baby hedgehogs have been saved this year by RSPCA nurses who fed them scrambled eggs at West Hatch , Somerset . |
| 28 | Anyone who bought the shares when we tipped them last year at 8p has done well . |
| 29 | From time to time he brought them small presents of coffee and sugar , although he was always slightly shy and embarrassed about giving them . |
| 30 | and we saw them burning bodies on the side of the river . |