Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 They skimmed you in an ante-room
2 And they got them from a host of people including Lady Thatcher , the Princess of Wales , Noel Edmonds , Frank Muir , Cliff Richard , Sir Harry Secombe and Ian Botham .
3 ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester .
4 I think sometimes I ca n't help but think it 's how they made him in a way , you know , like I , you , sometimes your , I think you should sit down and play with something , but he wo n't sit quiet and amuse himself
5 I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes .
6 They asked him for a swimming pool and a better playground , but he was n't making any promises .
7 Lionan , the dandy , was talking behind his hand to the brutal Mullach , who was gulping his beer moodily and staring at the serving maids as they passed him in a bustling procession .
8 I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen .
9 Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion .
10 Then they led us into a building and kept us there , all together . ‘
11 ‘ I believe they wired it to a car battery and the body asked if Danie Craven is still President of the South African Rugby Board ’ — UNNAMED SOUTH AFRICAN PLAYER on hearing that a Bronze Age body had been found perfectly preserved in an Alpine glacier .
12 They attacked him with a gun barrel before escaping .
13 That is why they attacked me with a bomb .
14 It was a royal monopoly , and an earlier King Arkesilas is depicted on a Spartan vase of the mid-sixth century supervising his officials as they weighed it on a man-size balance ( Chamoux , Cyrene , plate vi .
15 Perhaps then they heated it in an oven , or on a hot griddle ? )
16 They approached him at a steady pace as though unconcerned by his presence , but they went in single file , Allen with his hand lying lightly on the knife at his belt and Marian carrying her bow , strung , and with an arrow ready notched , lightly and inconspicuously in her left hand .
17 Even Daley Thompson , who insisted he had very little interference from teachers , said they helped him in a non-involved way : ‘ They were all right ; they left me alone and let me get on with what suited me .
18 After that , they moved him to a building near Rue Michelle Boutros , and later on to the cellars of two different hospitals in West Beirut , both of them supplied by Tony 's company , AMA Industries .
19 When the band sensed that Harvey was growing tired they moved him towards a finale and spread a musical carpet and drew a musical curtain and the trumpet milked the applause .
20 He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape .
21 Quickly they built it into a pyramid over the torch .
22 They regarded him as an oddity .
23 They declared their hostility to apprenticeship since they regarded it as a delay in ridding the colonies of slavery .
24 Two fifteenth-century archbishops of Canterbury , Chichele and Bourchier , write of ‘ the Church of England ’ in terms which show that they regarded it as a distinctive entity within the Church Universal , and one in which they could take considerable national pride .
25 At first they regarded it as a prerequisite for the socialization of large-scale heavy industry .
26 His old friends the overseers did him proud to the very last : in their generosity they provided him with a 14s. funeral .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 When the Sheriff and his men approached the brothers at Winchelsea , they found them in a state of drunken revelry .
30 ‘ Two days after I did the tattoo they found him on a street in Los Ilusiones .
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