Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Acme Transport v Betts [ 1981 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 131 , at p134 , Cumming Bruce LJ said that the Court of Appeal " were indebted to the judgment and tact of Counsel in that neither of them sought to confine us by referring to authority on the meaning of other exemption clauses in other contexts " . |
| 2 | Summer in the country , was the toast echoing in Diane 's ears as she went back inside ; and she shuddered , and wondered if she could think up something really cutting to say the first time one of them tried to treat her like a servant . |
| 3 | Although one of them tried to get him to America . |
| 4 | Some of them seemed to view it as a sort of health cure . |
| 5 | they got to take them to Court and ask the off the questions officially under oath , there 's no good getting 'em together like that |
| 6 | Twenty years later , after including a pledge to abolish the Lords in the 1983 manifesto and dropping it from the 1987 manifesto , the Labour party again committed itself to reform of the Lords : now they planned to replace it with an elected chamber designed more to reflect the diversity of the nation and the regions , but with less legislative power . |
| 7 | They planned to buy it from Spiro 's cousin Nigel , but returned to California after telling neighbours the children hated the wet cold weather . |
| 8 | It was winter and I was changing her clothes three times a day and my self-control snapped and I shook her very hard to stop her sitting down without her pants and was so upset by my behaviour and frightened by what I had done that they agreed to put her in a home . |
| 9 | They agreed to release him as an uncontested registration to enable him to find a county where he could hope for greater opportunities , and although we ca n't guarantee a first-team place , he 'll get plenty of chances if he does the business . |
| 10 | They agreed to shorten it to ‘ Other Scenes ’ . |
| 11 | I can never be grateful enough to them for the sacrifice they made to keep me at school , when even ten shillings a week would have relieved the pressure on the food bill . |
| 12 | The citadel bacame a furniture warehouse , before it was bought by Tamara Malcom and her husband in 1973 and they applied to convert it into a theatre . |
| 13 | Oh goodness I do n't think , I think they stopped using them during the war and I cr see that used to be like the gasworks , the gasworks you always used to have clogs , they used to have wooden soles , did the gasworks and then they used to have erm like a steel bar underneath or round the sole |
| 14 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 15 | They , they stopped having them on the , the seafront anyway . |
| 16 | Fleischmann 's entry reports ‘ music , cooking , skiing , walking ’ — nothing very remarkable here perhaps , but they helped to bring him to the most intense period of his scientific career . |
| 17 | The woodmen never broke up those temporary dwellings which they built to see them through the weekdays of the felling season . |
| 18 | They tried to give us to our ancient enemies in 1912 , 1974 , 1985 and now we 've had the ‘ Brooke initiative ’ which was another attempt by Westminster to be rid of us . |
| 19 | When they tried to set it by setting and him out |
| 20 | WIELDING a meat chopper , a man slashed and injured two government workers and a policeman yesterday as they tried to evict him from his home in Kowloon Walled City , which the Hong Kong government says is a slum and should be demolished . |
| 21 | They tried to eject him from the podium . |
| 22 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-30s , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 23 | The Redcar lifeboat was alerted and when they tried bring him on board , the man , in his mid-thirties , refused point blank to be rescued . |
| 24 | Cambridge liked undergraduates reading theology to have two years over the work and believed that if they tried to do it in fourteen months they would do it superficially , or else they would be sure to hurt themselves by overwork . |
| 25 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 26 | Now , belatedly , they tried to take them by force , an exercise in which they failed despite the loss of tens of thousands of irreplaceable soldiers . |
| 27 | They tried to intimidate me by holding on to the furniture . |
| 28 | They tried to attract me by offering tempting morsels — one offered me a Rolls-Royce with a personalised number plate — but my loyalties belonged to John . |
| 29 | On one occasion , they tried to interest him in the piano but that finished within three weeks with two surprises . |
| 30 | Now the first time they tried to change them in May they lost the vote , the women , to increase it from three to four . |