Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 2 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 3 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 4 | SINCE the first police forces were founded 150 years ago , everything about them has changed except the way they are organised . |
| 5 | Undoubtedly , the two interrelated movements — the democratic movement and the labour movement which developed so vigorously in the nineteenth century continue to have a major influence in politics , but the relation between them has changed during the present century , in a way which is also relevant to the character of more recent movements . |
| 6 | Thus , sometimes a seller will find himself still in possession of goods after the ownership in them has passed to the buyer . |
| 7 | Er well there was none of them got married during the time that I was there . |
| 8 | They either end up in stalemate , or one of them gets dragged over the line . |
| 9 | OFF-LICENCES all over Ulster will be handing out free measures to customers next month — to help stop them getting sozzled on the sofa ! |
| 10 | Where there was a danger in the past of them getting tagged as the Talulah Gosh it 's OK to laugh with , the Popinjays have packed away their school recorders and become grander , more articulate and sexy than you 'd have ever guessed before . |
| 11 | Although many of them feel cheated by the government 's refusal to hold a referendum over Maastricht , that is not the defining issue . |
| 12 | Some of them become trapped beneath the thatch , and whirl above me as diminutive galaxies of light . |
| 13 | He confronted Julie Stott , 27 , and her companion , Peter Ellis , 27 , forced them to lie spreadeagled on the ground , and apparently shouted for them to hand over their money and watches . |
| 14 | But they got rid of the lot for a couple of Ford motor trucks , and William 's grandad with them . |
| 15 | Now you 're moving to Bilborough , you 're moving to Bilborough erm just say in five years time they got rid of the flats erm and they built houses on here on the site , would you move back ? |
| 16 | And er we were on that for about an hour or so and then they got rid of the the badly injured were taken off then and put on the Therris it 's support vessel that was Just happened to be there at the time . |
| 17 | The worst thing they ever did was on the leader page , the last one they got rid of the Extended Titling on . |
| 18 | ‘ People never remember what happened immediately before they got hit on the head , ’ Wexford said cheerfully , ‘ especially when their skulls are fractured . |
| 19 | By formally merging , companies could continue their old practices within the merged company and take their chance if they got investigated by the MMC . |
| 20 | Liverpool 's inexperience meant they got sucked into the type of game a more experienced side would never have got involved in . |
| 21 | Similar complaints were heard in the Church of England about the condition of curates during the nineteenth century , a time when what pay they got came from the parish priest under whom they served or whose place they took in the parish while he lived elsewhere . |
| 22 | As the city state continues to develop , private ownership becomes more and more concentrated in the hands of some of the citizens , but the division this give rise to does not lead to the formation of classes among the freemen because they remain united against the slaves . |
| 23 | They remain dedicated to the task of setting up a group of integrated schools as a sector of education complementary to the existing system . |
| 24 | They became separated near the river which had become swollen in torrential rain and gales . |
| 25 | The vast majority curse the day they became hooked on the habit . |
| 26 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 27 | They became known as the ‘ separated ones ’ ( this is what the name Pharisee means ) because of their refusal to compromise . |
| 28 | They became trapped in the ice . |
| 29 | It was not that they went away , it was that they became interwoven with the strange elusive echoes and the memories that lingered in the vast dark Castle . |
| 30 | There is some evidence that these were originally connected to his grandson Frederick II , and that by the mysterious process of collective imagination and tradition , they became drawn to the more powerful figure of Barbarossa . |