Example sentences of "[vb pp] they by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WITH the forthcoming visit by the South Africans looming large , the RFU have taken the opportunity given them by the All Black and Wallaby tours to South Africa to get in some early homework on the Boks . |
| 2 | They had been coming over steadily ever since , in spite of warnings about the difficulties of living in a foreign land — warnings given them by the English Jewish establishment . |
| 3 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 4 | It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk . |
| 5 | Whatever their regrets at the time , however , the Americans had certainly lost them by the early 1950s as they came increasingly to value the sterling area as a buffer for the dollar . |
| 6 | How- ever , the first instalment of the kingdom would soon be sent them by the ascended King himself . |
| 7 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |