Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 It was as though he had joined them at the table , and it was n't doing D'Arcy 's appetite any good at all .
32 Rachel turned in the cramped space and saw that someone else had joined them on the jig .
33 And seeing that someone had joined them in the chapel , he pinched Caterina 's cheek , and lightly slapping her shoulder , said aloud , ‘ Away with you , find someone else to pester . ’
34 Gamal and one or two of his friends had joined them in the box and Gamal was not entirely comfortable either , though for different reasons .
35 The handsome young fisherman Pablo had joined them in the café , and now he said , ‘ Señorita , you are doing nothing today .
36 ‘ Indeed you would n't find better anywhere , ’ said Mrs Bennet who had joined them in the cellar with her daughter .
37 Various organisations have lobbied me about the Bill .
38 Then I 'd wondered if some women who 'd stopped me on the path had taken it .
39 And having pilloried them in the past it is only fair to hear their point of view .
40 Eighth , they plant churches because ‘ God wants YWAM missionaries to build into local congregations the spiritual foundations ’ he has given them as a mission .
41 He warmed the pot , instinctively found the tea in the caddy Frances 's Auntie Pamela had given them as a wedding present , and brewed up .
42 She 'd given them as a wedding present , she said , and never seen them used .
43 When you 've made your gifts to the various museums , you have given them with the stipulation that none of the works of art may ever be sold .
44 This teacher 's view that the Afro-Caribbean pupils felt obliged to live up to the labels given them by the school was reiterated by other teachers .
45 The rather flat results of the autumn sales of nineteenth-century paintings in New York indicated that the market remains somewhat thin , although , as usual , good pictures , attractively priced , nearly always sell , if not for the frequently high estimates given them by the auction houses .
46 The Franciscan friars of Reading found it necessary in 1234 to obtain from the king a letter ordering the warden of Windsor Forest not to exact cheminage in respect of the timber given them in the forest for their buildings at Reading .
47 I turned to find that a girl had joined me at the bar .
48 Chris Patten has now joined me as a party chairman held responsible for winning an election by running a bad campaign !
49 He has always impressed me as a man of great good humour , and with a wonderful fund of stories .
50 After visiting Bruce Hutchison , the next stop would be at the home of Mrs Nellie McClung whose books ‘ Clearing in the West ’ and ‘ The Stream Runs Fast ’ had impressed me as a youth .
51 The Committee had simply patted them on the back like spoilt children and told them , ‘ Now just send your children back to school . ’
52 Worst of all , seamen rapidly came to the conclusion that the service and suffering to which the union had committed them in the name of Britain and the Empire did not extend to the shipowners , and especially not to those who were fortunate enough to escape requisitioning of their vessels by the government .
53 For some reason though , the evil Krip does n't have the sense to smash all the records and has instead scattered them over the island .
54 They probably thought you 'd added me as a convoy . ’
55 In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network .
56 Since , however , the types of response given by these enquirers did not differ significantly from applicants , we have grouped them with the applicants for the purpose of the analysis .
57 This win over their local rivals now means Rovers ' record under Big Mal 's vibrant leadership is one defeat followed by a run of one draw and three victories which have lifted them off the bottom of the table .
58 At once , he could see that it was the same monstrous nightmare that had attacked them in the basement .
59 Treadwell certainly had n't mentioned any of this when Spruce had interviewed them with the Bishop .
60 He 's picked me for the Jack Gannon , and I 'm four months under age , and he says Hermia 's really improved . ’
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