Example sentences of "[vb past] they [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Franks led them through some swing doors with a flourish and into another corridor , explaining that normally he would not waste money by taking them to a full editing suite . |
| 2 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 3 | Again , the would-be reformers ' interpretation of the 1980s led them to this conclusion . |
| 4 | Eadmer inserted them at this point into his Historia Novorum . |
| 5 | They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia . |
| 6 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 7 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
| 8 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
| 9 | Bernard Coard 's How the West Indian Child is made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System ( 1971 ) had already given concrete expression to many black parents ' justified fears that their children were being systematically mis-classified as educationally subnormal and relegated to a ‘ special ’ education which effectively excluded them from any possibility of acquiring decent qualifications . |
| 10 | Certainly Cromwell regarded them with some anxiety , and in 1533 he made Throckmorton promise that he would ‘ stay at home and meddle little with politics ’ . |
| 11 | Many more women sought separations after the passing of the 1886 Act , which allowed them to do so on grounds of the husband 's unwillingness or inability to maintain , although in practice the legislation provided them with little material assistance . |
| 12 | The Russian landlords did not and could not revolt against the tsar , who alone provided them with some legitimation against a peasantry profoundly convinced that the land belonged to him who laboured it , but also of their hierarchic subordination to the representatives of God and the emperor . |
| 13 | The prophets had sharp words for those who reduced them to this level . |
| 14 | Practical jokes were the order of the day during the making of The Jokers ; everyone played them on each other . |
| 15 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
| 16 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 17 | The sheer weight of goodwill fax messages told them of this fact . |
| 18 | Mm , mm and no , I dropped them off this morning , that 's it , he 's picking them up |
| 19 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 20 | Well that 's because , perhaps because , when they were young children people directed them in that kind of decision making , or look people directed them to look at those sorts of levels . |
| 21 | On the Sunday I met my parents and , courtesy of Jack , handed over sponsor 's tickets which allowed them into any part of the course and the clubhouse and also provided tickets for lunch . |
| 22 | The five-member tribunal sentenced each of them to life imprisonment with hard labour , and also stripped them of all property , civil rights and military rank . |
| 23 | But we never touched them at that time . |
| 24 | She walked them towards each other , their clawed feet bent stiffly inwards , on the cold slate shelf : " How did you get shot , little brother ? " each asked the other in a high child 's squeak of imitation . |
| 25 | Improving staff morale — Staff also felt that the care programme approach could help their morale and broaden their repertoire of interventions when the training process they received ‘ valued staff ’ and taught them about each other 's professional skills and local resources . |
| 26 | But whereas Edouard loved cars for their design , and their beauty , and collected them on that basis , Grégoire loved them for the engines under their gleaming bonnets . |
| 27 | Although the ministers were too polite to commit themselves , even when I pressed them on this point , it was clear to me that they felt they , and their church , had been used . |
| 28 | Of those who reported that their disability handicapped them in some way , 90 per cent stated that they ‘ had to take special care ’ and 86 per cent reported a restricted work or social life . |
| 29 | I called them into this room and spoke to them . |
| 30 | He called them by this name because , he said , they went ‘ floppy ’ when you shot them . |