Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought I 'd got rid of them all but I had n't , right ? |
| 2 | A shadow seemed to have fallen over them , perhaps a premonition that they would never see each other again , and they stared at each other as though trying to commit each other 's features to memory . |
| 3 | An uneasy tension seemed to have fallen between them again , as if the hot , searing flash of passion inside the cave had been a product of their environment , and not of their own feelings for each other . |
| 4 | The events of the year seemed to have washed over them and left them unaltered . |
| 5 | Steve breathed , impressed , as they trundled up the last stretch of drive after the gates had clanked shut behind them . |
| 6 | She had originally intended to resell them but found she had grown attached to them and had built shelves in her sitting-room . |
| 7 | Some of his little ways had indeed been quite surprising in the past , seeing that they ranged from the quartering of badgers , rescued from a baiting , in her coal-shed to the introduction of separate limbs and even of whole orphans for dissection when they were in good supply towards the end of winter ; but she had grown used to them little by little . |
| 8 | On November 21st he told Poindexter , who was advising him that the Justice Department ‘ fact-finding mission ’ was about to descend on his office , that he had got rid of them all . |
| 9 | The third , who had become separated from them , lost his shirt , and was so dirty that he was arrested at Parma station . |
| 10 | We had to get rid of them they were nearly collapsing |
| 11 | Odd gloves we never used to charge for had to get rid of them and er so apart from those two offices er there was immediately above us was a biggish office spreading over these two blocks of offices , called the ticket office and there at that time about eleven girls working in it on tickets . |
| 12 | Whatever it was , he felt he had to get rid of them . ’ |
| 13 | The point was the Germans hated them and wanted to get rid of them . |