Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before m w when my father and mother when they were courting before they they got married to with , yeah ? |
| 2 | Instead they stayed talking until the small hours , telling me of the strokes they 'd pulled and the mischief they 'd got into as kids — right under my unsuspecting nose ! |
| 3 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |
| 4 | Nobody sits at home unless they 've asked to for two or three days . |
| 5 | And , we 've seen through their advertising in targeting women that they 've tried to post the image if you smoke , you 're more likely to be slim and slender . |
| 6 | mini , there 's a minimum capital requirement , they 've got ta of been carry on business as a former |
| 7 | That 's all they 've talked about at work , you know . ’ |
| 8 | Under his face , half overlaid by a crag shaped like a mushroom growth on a tree trunk , entirely obscured until his eyes were close up to it by the thick vegetation , was the open fissure which for thirty days they had searched for in vain . |
| 9 | In 1922 the number of literacy centres and those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to by 1921 . |
| 10 | There was little hope for political enlightenment in the provinces at a time when the number of literary centres and of those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to in 1921 . |
| 11 | They would feel happier north of the river like everyone else ; Islington seems to have been their favourite suburb , and that was where they had moved to by the time the next child arrived , three years later . |
| 12 | THIS photograph shows the staff at the Royal Bank 's Edinburgh West End Office in 1922 shortly after they had moved from to temporary premises at . |
| 13 | In the test phase subjects first attempted to recall the features they had written down and then performed a 4AFC recognition task attempting to identify the slide they had viewed from among three distractors showing a slightly different view of the same scene . |
| 14 | But as we talked the matter over , I thought I heard , in the background , a droning unbodied voice explain that the robbers were young , socially deprived victims of the Thatcherite era of greed and exploitation , not to be blamed for acquiring , by unorthodox means , some of the luxury goods they had heard of from capitalist advertisers who had wickedly aroused their consumerist aspirations . |
| 15 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 16 | The Soviets obtained what they had hoped for since the war : an agreement that European borders should be changed only by peaceful means , which in effect recognised the post-war settlement in Eastern Europe . |
| 17 | It was the family portrait they had posed for on Easter Sunday afternoon : Connor , Ruth and Danny , staring glassy-eyed into the camera . |
| 18 | They were not very loud , like the crack of a fairground rifle , and they had come from behind him , from the playground . |
| 19 | Wenger 's data show that 43 per cent of elderly people named as a confidant someone they had known for at least 50 years , and 75 per cent named someone they had known for 30 years . |
| 20 | It was the boy they had talked to in the Coptic Place of the Dead , the one who had given them information — and kicked Georgiades on the shin . |
| 21 | Invariably the tension relieving behaviour of geriatric anxiety is howling and barking in the owner 's absence — completely out of character with the dog that they have lived with for 13 or so years . |
| 22 | Jeff Goodman talks about a new opportunity which the University Careers Service is offering to graduates of the last ten years to re-assess where they have got to in their careers . |
| 23 | The regulation of pension funds tends to be far lighter than for insurance companies as they are bound by trust legislation , and because the companies that offer pensions have an incentive to make sure that schemes are adequately administered as they are responsible for the benefits they have agreed upon for their employees ( even though they rarely run the fund themselves ) . |
| 24 | And the fact that they have voted against with such a large majority is something |