Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] they [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have now , through your lordship 's favour , the satisfaction of seeing them cultivated in my neighbourhood , by the skilful hand of my friend , Mr. Miller , and shall take the first opportunity of describing and engraving them that the public may see how much they are indebted to your lordship . |
| 2 | In Italy a roughly similar consular bulletin on trade relations with foreign countries and means of developing them appeared from 1862 , though irregularly and often in rather skimpy issues . |
| 3 | I would n't of thought they needed to . |
| 4 | ‘ The Sunderland lads have the consolation of knowing they played at Wembley . |
| 5 | Had he kicked three more penalties during the Bledisloe Cup series instead of watching them rebound off the posts or miss by a whisker , Fox 's average would have been identical to Hodgkinson 's twenty-eight points from his last two matches amounts to ample proof that he has made a complete recovery from the doldrums of Dublin last October when he spoke of retirement in the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks losing their titles . |
| 6 | Badger gassing , the infallible and humane method of killing them recommended by Lord Zuckerman was stopped on the grounds that it was fallible and inhumane . |
| 7 | For plastering they had to be fresh and supple with the green leaves still intact . |
| 8 | Even though they had been confirmed … in writing they remained without support or corroboration and should not have been accepted … as sufficient for the purposes of an unqualified certificate . ’ |
| 9 | From teaching they moved into mission work and in 1901 began their careers in this field as Superintendent and Matron respectively of the Institute for the Deaf at Bolton , Lancashire . |
| 10 | Without speaking they walked through the gap of the east window and on to the edge of the cliff and saw only the moon-bleached beach stretching north and south , the thin fringe of white foam . |
| 11 | Conservationists have expressed concern over the future of Britain 's peatlands because a deal aimed at preserving them agreed in January 1992 [ see ED 55 ] has still not been signed and could be abandoned . |