Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | They skimmed you in an ante-room |
| 2 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 3 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 4 | Perhaps then they heated it in an oven , or on a hot griddle ? ) |
| 5 | They regarded him as an oddity . |
| 6 | These short features were independent of my research for the book but they provided us with an opportunity of working together and getting to know each other . |
| 7 | The cyclists received a marvellous reception from the staff of JM Birmingham at 6am on completing this most challenging stage and they provided us with an excellent cooked breakfast . |
| 8 | But in practice positivists almost invariably worked uncritically and unquestioningly with the products of the existing legal definitions ; by default , they endowed them with an objective status . |
| 9 | ‘ People were hugging and kissing each other as my car powered its way to the finish as they joined me in an early celebration . |
| 10 | They hung it to an almond tree in the square by its ankles so that everyone could see it , and when it began to rot they burned it in a bonfire , for they could not determine whether its bastard nature was that of an animal to be thrown in the river or a human being to be buried … |
| 11 | They took me to an enormous wall built of Pelasgian blocks . |
| 12 | Instead of sending back to Britain for a , a part , they took it off an old tank you see , and on that had been part was still all right you see , but the tank was er useless but there would maybe be a bit of the track alright , so we cannibalized them . |
| 13 | They saw it as an attack on feminine intelligence , it so obviously was n't and the argument is , by now , nothing but hearsay . |
| 14 | It was not surprising , therefore , that while the Six were willing to discuss the Grand Design within the OEEC context , they saw it as an addition to , not a replacement for , their own plans . |
| 15 | Such people have been disappointed , to say the least , that the Government postponed the community care programme by two years because they saw it as an opportunity for the balance of resources between residential care and community care to be readdressed . |
| 16 | They treated me as an intruder . ’ |
| 17 | Based on their extensive studies on behalf of the National Association of Social Workers into differential use of social welfare personnel , Barker and Briggs ( 1968 ) developed a fairly sophisticated conception of how the social service team would work , and they offered it as an alternative to previously specified models of staff differentiation and utilization . |
| 18 | The other Great Reforms of the 1860s , affecting the judicial system , the press , and the universities , made little impact on the peasantry , and although they gained a minority voice on the new local government bodies ( the zemstva ) set up in 1864 , they viewed them as an additional burden rather than as a vehicle for their own interests . |
| 19 | Then they accompanied us to an eating house . |
| 20 | They put him on an airliner . |
| 21 | But they greeted her as an old friend . |
| 22 | They may not have made him the finest British light comedian since his hero David Niven , but at least they rescued him from an uncertain future in Britain where he may have ended up as a cross between Roy Castle and Ronnie Corbett . |