Example sentences of "they [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.

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1 72 ) and , towards that end , each of them occupied a territory on the periphery of the USSR within which a particular nationality was in principle predominant — Estonians in Estonia , Ukrainians in the Ukraine , and Russians in the Russian Republic , which was by far the largest .
2 I can have them fried the next day .
3 time that took to get them shod a halfpenny cheaper !
4 That 's happened , I could n't get any one year I took the triplets to the erm Goose Hill coffee morning in the Town Hall and I gave them all money for the tombola and one of them won a Creme Egg
5 Those are the Saw Doctors interesting this about the Saw Doctors is one of them won the lottery in Ireland I do n't they have a lottery we 're go when are we going to get a national lottery that 's what I want to know when are we going to get it a national next year we 're going to get a national lottery that 's right and one of the Saw Doctors won the national lottery and he won three quarters of a million pounds er and they have n't made much money the Saw Doctors but he won three quarters of a million pounds so that have n't worked for quite some time but they are back on the scene as I speak and er they really if if they er come to York they 're certainly worth seeing .
6 No , no yo yo i is n't it funny when I thought it is a fault , one of them discarded the right ?
7 Oh I think they ought to have them cleaned every year do n't you ?
8 I mean , if you went to America and told them told a bu , American business man that to invest in this country because we 've got a lot of !
9 of the country you would probably hear them called a slasher and a what ?
10 Had any of them crossed the road on their own .
11 But er however there were none of them struck the camp .
12 Its new range of Glascol resins used in printing inks is gaining market share as they given an even glossier appearance to the print .
13 And while acknowledging that some women wreak inhumanity on others , Kennedy argues that jailed mothers are crushed by a double burden ; not only have they broken the law , but they feel ( as does society ) that they have failed their children .
14 Had they forgotten the Arusha Declaration ?
15 Norman Swash , a Middlesbrough councillor and former process worker at Wilton , said : ‘ Why have they targeted the pensioners when they make their cuts ?
16 Had they considered the previous state of the law ?
17 Not for a moment had they considered the possibility .
18 Many of those who voted against the government would not have done so had they expected an election .
19 I do n't know but then frankly thinking but then I got them in the end you know I just did n't sell them because nobody paid that much and then ah in the outset and I paid quite a big price for for two for Patrick and me and then when they were they they dropped the price and then I got some more .
20 Charles Gorham , the deaf founder-secretary and editor of The Deaf and Dumb Times , within days of the foundation of the BDDA , registered his personal dissent in the issue of August 1890 : The Congress , in deciding that the title should be " The British Deaf and Dumb Association " , would have done better had they omitted the objectionable word " dumb " , which is really unnecessary and has proved very misleading to the public .
21 These were the right decisions , I believe , but had they adopted an average yardstick in 1935 , rather than a maximum , and kept the yardstick in line with actual average production figures , the necessary steps taken would have appeared less dramatic .
22 Not once in all those years had they seen a real smile on his face .
23 Now , if they seen a miracle , if they had been there before and had seen Jesus do something like this , then it would appear that they would have ev , that Jesus would have every reason for saying , oh you faithless people !
24 Had they seen the chaos left by a clumsy intruder ?
25 Make an effort to be interested in them — have they read any others by the same author , have they seen the play/film/TV series of the book ?
26 Had n't they seen the statue of him in the Market Place where he stood with his palette , apparently painting the pub and King 's the grocer 's ?
27 Yes , cos they seen the trouble from the balconies , you know .
28 Never once during that time had they seen the light of day .
29 had they seen the Royal Bank ads ?
30 What , then , are these models , and how have they shaped the Left perspective on the British constitution , and on the need for change in the rules and the institutions of the political game in Britain ?
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