Example sentences of "they [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They sleep entrusted to darkness |
| 6 | Were the wishes of those they commemorate taken into consideration ? |
| 7 | Sometimes they get blown off course by exceptionally strong winds — to thrill bird watchers by their apparent ‘ tameness ’ and exquisite plumage ; to spin on the spot in circles ; and to dab at the water surface for invertebrate food . |
| 8 | The first 500 lucky people through the door at each gig will — if they get recorded in time — receive a free seven inch featuring mutated covers of ‘ Teenage Kicks ’ and ‘ With Or Without You ’ . |
| 9 | Without a CICS/Open product on the market , Data Logic casts the race for Unix-based OLTP solutions outside the IBM world as a Tuxedo versus Encina affair where ‘ the market will decide whether they get pushed into interoperability . ’ |
| 10 | So , anybody entering the exhibition is encouraged to stand on a spot at the bottom of the stairs , and they place in the token that they 've bought at the box office , as they do so , they get flooded in light , and the special computer voice made by the university takes you through into the exhibition . |
| 11 | The night of the Spring Ball arrives , Carrie looks beautiful , she 's being escorted by the nicest possible person and then they get elected as King and Queen of the Spring Ball ! |
| 12 | It often happens that while on their southward migration in autumn , they get forced off course by westerly gales , at times arriving in Shetland in large numbers . |
| 13 | They get married at City Hall so that she can have her green card and stay . |
| 14 | You mean to say they get paid for stuff like this ? |
| 15 | They feed suspended in mid-water , but are versatile enough to browse also under the ice and on the seabed . |
| 16 | They feel involved as part of the presentation . |
| 17 | Our own capacities diminish as they become dominated by TV images . |
| 18 | If elderly individuals see life through helpless , defeated eyes , where they become resigned to pain and disappointment , loneliness and despair , their reaction to new situations will not be positive . |
| 19 | Only through composition can pupils acquire effective mastery of the enlarged vocabulary with which they become acquainted through literature , but which remains inert in their minds without the exercise of applying it to the expression of their own thought . |
| 20 | Thus there are quite wide variations in the political attitudes and involvement of workers ; and the form which these attitudes eventually take , among both white-collar and blue-collar workers , and in which they become embodied in trade union policies , will be crucial for the future development of the existing welfare states . |
| 21 | MPs are demanding an inquiry into claims that Britain 's largest compact disc maker is deliberately sacking workers before they become entitled to redundancy pay . |
| 22 | When they 've felt like a' dae it 's a sign they 'll be movin' oan soon . ’ |
| 23 | They 've roped in drummer Chris Acland of Lush and guitarist Russell Yates of Moose for their cautious ground-testing comeback gig , a sort of one-off , growing indie supergroup . |
| 24 | My God ! they 've landed from planet X ! |
| 25 | Longman have made a very good start to the year and erm , and so they 've progressed from day one , making last year I expect to continue . |
| 26 | At lunch-time today he said , I called in with regard to those records they 've placed on order . |
| 27 | They 've trained in addition to the once a month or even twice a month , they 've trained whenever their duties allowed . |
| 28 | Yeah they , they 've played in red and white , red , white , red shirts white shorts , but they , they used to play in claret and blue I can remember seeing them in claret and blue when I was a small boy but erm |
| 29 | Well if they 've applied in time they can get a p postal vote . |
| 30 | But they 've gone with time . |