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 ? |