Example sentences of "[vb past] they [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He lived down Gypsy Lane with his two sisters , he was a single man you see and my father and mother lived here and my , they not only mended shoes but they made them and er course naturally , you know , well of course Needham was n't as big as it is now but they made them for the best people , if that , if that 's the right , not the right expression say , but er but you know what I mean er and er and he , you know , all his life you see he did that and then one day he had a shock because his er , what would you call him colleague , he , he died suddenly in the night .
2 They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave .
3 Alexandra took the long pins out of her hat and laid them in the red glass tray on her dressing-table .
4 In short , the consumer called the tune and the operators who prospered were those who best identified the needs of the consumers and met them at the right price .
5 ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
6 One of these papers was a recent statement by the county education committee that no change in the status of the grammar school was contemplated : on that basis , I was able to reassure my anxious colleagues , when I met them on the first day of term , that abrupt change was not imminent .
7 The beadle led them through the gloomy rooms off the main hall where the Court of Common Pleas , Court of Chancery and Court of Requests sat , and down a warren of lime-washed corridors until he stopped in front of a door and rapped noisily with his wand .
8 The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island .
9 At the top of the staircase various Chamberlains , dressed in gold embroidered jackets , welcomed the guests and led them to the Grand Master of Ceremonies .
10 And members are still less than enamoured with their district council group leader , Coun John Richardson from Willington , who led them to the disastrous defeat .
11 Bloom et al. " s study of how to is acquired in infinitival complement constructions led them to the clear conclusion that " the children learned to with the meaning " " direction towards " " and not as a meaningless syntactic marker " ( 1984 : 391 ) .
12 Working the 2 Step programme becomes progressively more relevant on a daily basis in the recognition that it provides such a superb philosophy of life than many recovering people come to consider that they were fortunate to have addictive disease because it led them to the 12 Step Programme .
13 Grooms took their horses whilst a pompous steward of the Prince 's household led them up the main steps into the spacious hall .
14 Presently it led them from the main highway to minor roads and country lanes .
15 Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy .
16 And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces .
17 ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career .
18 The Parquet had existed , he thought , since at least 1883 when a reforming Minister of Justice had unearthed in his office some Arabic translations of parts of the French Code Napoleon and promulgated them as the new Egyptian legal system .
19 Only one Egyptian historian is known to us , the priestly scribe Manetho who compiled the list of all the pharaohs and conveniently divided them into the particular groups or dynasties which Egyptologists still employ today .
20 Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s .
21 I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans .
22 It 's just like sharing I mean if we had two pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would
23 If we had erm four pizzas and we shared them between the two of us how many would we get ?
24 I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself .
25 It closed the banks and immediately sold them to the Richmond-based Signet Banking Corp .
26 Glenn Hoddle got them to the Premier league … maybe Keith Scott can keep them there !
27 So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium !
28 Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and
29 That 's what I should have done but I got them in the wrong order .
30 you probably got them from the same place .
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