Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] they [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I 've heard about them in the Owsla . |
| 2 | ‘ The money we lifted was hardly intended for them in the first place , was it ? ’ |
| 3 | The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s . |
| 4 | The sand gets shaken off them at the knockout . ’ |
| 5 | In short , Labour and the Liberal Democrats will have the argument won for them on the ground — and as long as they locate their policies in terms of wealth creation , rather than punitive redistribution , the current election election result has given them a platform from which effectively to challenge for power next time round . |
| 6 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 7 | A second set of trophies , the Thirsk Bowman 's Insignia , was presented in 1884 , after the death of Henry Peckett who had looked after them since the demise of that society . |
| 8 | As described earlier , Brown and his colleagues ( 1986a ) have argued that they now have good evidence that the prior existence of a close supportive relationship is protective against depression if that person provides the support expected of them at the time of a crisis . |
| 9 | Often this is because they fail to understand what is expected of them under the broad , general duties of the Health and Safety at Work Act . |
| 10 | I asked my friends who have had au pairs what they 'd expected of them in the kitchen . |
| 11 | Theoretically one can have the best materials taught by the best teachers , but although a number of films have been made , and probably will continue to be made , they have not had the success that was expected of them in the fifties . |
| 12 | Justices who exercise this delicate jurisdiction are under a statutory duty to carry out the inquiry expected of them by the Children Act 1989 . |
| 13 | Both managers said they would assess managerial competence by a person 's ability to achieve the goals expected of them by the organisation . |
| 14 | is not , on the true construction of section 6(2) and section 61(1) , entitled to the relief claimed against them in the statement of claim . |
| 15 | Recently many artificial fibres , such as nylon , made in chemical factories , have replaced cotton or wool , or they are mixed with them in the spinning or weaving process . |
| 16 | The children must be quite clear from the outset about the task in hand ; what is going to be expected from them during the course of the lesson ? |
| 17 | Once territories have been established by young fans , occupants are physically confined within them for the entire duration of the match . |
| 18 | It is a power committed to them by the judges , a power which the judges may resume . |
| 19 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 20 | The case took 8 × 80 oz bottles to treat and the last three bottles had dye added to them at a rate of .5 oz per 80 oz . |
| 21 | Along the colonnade under Upper School were recorded 1157 names of Old Etonians killed in the First World War ( 748 others , including my brother Dermot 's , were added to them after the Second World War ) . |
| 22 | First-class writers can defy this rule-of-thumb , but anyone else doing so risks alienating readers who have come to them for a particular sort of entertainment . |
| 23 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 24 | And Melanie had spied on them through a keyhole , and would never get closer to them than the keyhole in the door behind which they lived . |
| 25 | ‘ Gloves , cane and collar astonish these artists in shirt-sleeves — they have always looked on them as the insignia of feeble-mindedness … still , it 's great to be in the thick of the dog-fights of great art . ’ |
| 26 | Until the 1930s , for example , it was a routine practice of the London police to record thefts reported to them by the public as ‘ lost property ’ . |
| 27 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 28 | That prompted judge Robert Watson from the USA to interject : ‘ Judges can only score a foul if it is reported to them by the referee . ’ |
| 29 | DHSS requires firms to notify any adverse reactions reported to them within a month of receipt . |
| 30 | When the lonely howl of a wolf carried to them through the forest , Isabel jumped , glancing at the door as if she expected to see the beast standing there . |