Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of Europe laughs at the feudal system that most of them got rid of centuries ago . |
| 2 | Visiting friends can be a great help for this , and you can ask them to come prepared with items to read to the patient , or ideas to discuss . |
| 3 | The job of quietening them has fallen to Bob Burgreen , the chief of police . |
| 4 | ‘ Maybe my connection with them has rebounded on Sheffield United . |
| 5 | None of none of them has got in contact with me . |
| 6 | He knew how to extract ideas and information from people without ever making them feel sucked of vitality — because he never failed to give back as much as he took . |
| 7 | Before setting out she had buried her husband , two sons and a daughter — all of them having starved to death . |
| 8 | I can not find any reference to them having bred in captivity , except one paragraph , which says ‘ they may be induced to spawn by frequent water changes , which would represent the onset of the rainy season when their breeding takes place . ’ |
| 9 | They a they 'll have the other two , they got told in advance but this one , she never . |
| 10 | At a larger distance , none the less , a pattern of partial unity of purpose grows faintly visible , and the old romancers and young realists of post-war Britain by now look one in what they denied and defied , even if they remain opposed in style and in the positives of dogmatic faith . |
| 11 | Like a city buried by a volcano , they remain frozen in time , untouched by the change , decay and renewal which constantly alter the structures of our conscious mental life . |
| 12 | Prior to AD 625 the coins are found mainly in Kent and the upper Thames valley ; afterwards they are found spread over a wider area as far afield as Ireland , Scotland , Derbyshire and Yorkshire , although they remain concentrated in south-east England . |
| 13 | I 'd like to go into a little more the composition of the net debt which again is something that er interests some of you we have er a reduction both on gross debt and equally an increase in cash as you would expect as a result of the Elsivir sale the increases are not fixed debt fixed term fixed rate debt is a function again of the exchange rate we have n't in issued any more the whole of the reduction of debt therefore is confined to our floating rate or variable debt and that amount 's ready to the repayment of the gilder drawings we had under our to hedge or partially to hedge our holding in Elsivir We have increased our cash holdings and they remain concentrated in sterling as part of our sterling er asset er portfolio which is managed from Millbank and which we regard as our investable funds as and when needed . |
| 14 | They became engaged in England and next year Miss Brooke set out for New York chaperoned by her brother Edgar , a solicitor . |
| 15 | In the Ordovician and Silurian periods they became adapted to life in most marine environments , but were particularly numerous in shallow water habitats , in some cases forming whole banks , as mussels do today . |
| 16 | Some stayed and , ruled by Torcoth , they became known as Turks , while others followed Francio to the Rhine , where they became known as Franks . |
| 17 | Some stayed and , ruled by Torcoth , they became known as Turks , while others followed Francio to the Rhine , where they became known as Franks . |
| 18 | Since , according to the group — ‘ the Sits ’ as they became labelled in Britain — the problems of production had been solved , the question was one of consumption . |
| 19 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 20 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 21 | They sleep entrusted to darkness |
| 22 | Were the wishes of those they commemorate taken into consideration ? |
| 23 | His nostrils were cavernous and so finely edged that they seemed made of paper . |
| 24 | Like the girl with the clipboard , they seemed consumed with gratitude and admiration for his skill in getting there . |
| 25 | Fond of the good life , they came armed with salmon , whisky and champagne . |
| 26 | They came armed with batteries of attorneys , British and American , merchant bank and investment bank advisers and the way in which their participation developed was immensely thorough . |
| 27 | ( If they 'd existed in George Orwell 's day , when they were needed at least as much as now , we 'd have been spared all his sentimental fallacies about the perfect symmetry of family life . ) |
| 28 | ‘ Mother said they 'd met at university — ’ frowned Meredith . |
| 29 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 30 | It would have been much more fun , do n't you think , if they 'd dressed as housewives . |