Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a strange conversation , sleepily hostile , with both of them drained by the extravagant expenditure of passion that had gone before . |
| 2 | You will find them listed in the Market Research Society Handbook . |
| 3 | You will find them listed in the Yellow Pages . |
| 4 | A recent review by Berk ( 1986 ) identified 38 methods , most of them developed in the USA during the 1970s . |
| 5 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 6 | No , you put them hidden in the |
| 7 | He had them erected in the grounds of his house — now council offices . |
| 8 | Make sure electric blankets are BEAB approved , and have them checked by the manufacturer every four to five years . |
| 9 | The test which best discriminated between the effects of left and right sided electro-convulsive therapy ( ECT ) after two treatments to each side was naming of objects after hearing a verbal description of them given by the examiner seven minutes after shock administration . |
| 10 | But then , most of them relied on the head men , we used to tell them you see , to keep their mouth shut . |
| 11 | Perhaps they are sheepish about the efficiency or integrity of their testing systems , and unwilling to have them exposed to the public scrutiny that would follow if the banned athletes chose to take the matter further in law . |
| 12 | Get yourself twelve songs — and have them transposed into the right key , for God 's sake . |
| 13 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 14 | Sensations rushed in : the cries of the traders in the street below them mixed with the screams of the swallows that swished low across the roofs ; the dark aroma of the strong coffee mingled with the fresh smell of the bread . |
| 15 | Children have their very own entertainers and a full programme keeping them occupied during the day and early evening ( During Season and Bank Holidays ) . |
| 16 | Now to keep them occupied for the journey . |
| 17 | When releasing barn owls that have been in captivity for a long time , we keep them confined to the barn until we 're sure that they are going to adapt happily to their new surrounding . ( ) |
| 18 | They might have them frozen in the frozen bit , frozen gateaux and stuff |
| 19 | Obviously , the first requirement in developing students ' critical abilities is to get them immersed in the disciplines they are studying , and bring them to appreciate and to respect the internal criteria of evaluation — the kinds of evidence , criteria and values that are particular to each discipline . |
| 20 | I 've seen them reported in the papers and on TV . |
| 21 | With this in mind , Mr Suharto has encouraged the formation of the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals , a group of thinkers , many of them educated in the West and several of them cabinet ministers . |
| 22 | Instead she was confined for twenty hours a day on a ward for the criminally insane , most of them doped and many of them bruised from the warders ' heavy handling . |
| 23 | Some ideas are as follows : the first team to have everyone sat on the floor , first team to have everyone standing on one leg . |
| 24 | If you have a diver with spinal bend , and you do n't recompress them , you have someone paralysed from the waist down . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm very optimistic that we can get the goals , but we do n't need to chase the game right from the start and leave ourselves exposed at the back . |
| 26 | Nor have I referred to the minor changes made to the 1987 regulations in 1990 and 1991 , which have already been applied in the accounts of most societies and will be familiar to their preparers and auditors by now . |
| 27 | Thus was I blinded to the fact that he is , in fact , the quintessential heavy metal arsehole . |
| 28 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 29 | Or have I fallen into the trap of seeing a dozen cases of doubt and declaring a universal epidemic ? |
| 30 | ‘ Or have I stumbled on the trials of the Regiment 's new secret weapon ? |