Example sentences of "[pron] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vases in the Marine Style , including rhytons , bridge-spouted jugs and three-handled amphoras , are decorated with triton shells , argonauts , octopuses , starfish , rocks and seaweed — all of them treated in a free and fluid way . |
| 2 | It was a strange conversation , sleepily hostile , with both of them drained by the extravagant expenditure of passion that had gone before . |
| 3 | The Somerset establishment ganged up on them , wrongly accused them of being troublemakers , and one committee member tried shamefully to get them sacked from their newspapers . |
| 4 | That same day he told me , as if he were giving me a magnificent present , that he thought he could pull strings and have me posted with him . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah , Château Margaux ‘ 48 , ’ one of them exclaimed with great excitement . |
| 6 | Members heard there were now no obstacles to building the relief road and that everyone consulted about it was ‘ wholeheartedly in favour . ’ |
| 7 | I feared that , but I must always have wanted it too , because when you had me dismissed from that job — Oh , I hated that , I hated not being able to see you any more , but I thought it was you I hated . |
| 8 | If words or phrases are used which do not mean anything to you ask to have them explained to you in layman 's terms . |
| 9 | All the figures , some of them cloaked like witches , were facing in the same direction — away from Maisie and Robert . |
| 10 | She keeps nothing hidden from Edward , so confident is she of his love and so secure in her belief in the future that lies before them , unconventional and home-based : |
| 11 | He pulled out the pouffe and sat on it with them propped on his knees . |
| 12 | You will find them listed in the Market Research Society Handbook . |
| 13 | You will find them listed in the Yellow Pages . |
| 14 | However they might have trouble finding adjectives to do these performances justice : his breathtaking virtuosity , which takes appalling difficulties of the music in its stride , at times had me bogeared in admiration . |
| 15 | At the beginning of the twentieth century Freud wrote about sexuality in children , which was , at that time , an original contribution to the understanding of human beings and the problems many of them developed in later adult life . |
| 16 | A recent review by Berk ( 1986 ) identified 38 methods , most of them developed in the USA during the 1970s . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The cloudburst switched itself off as abruptly as it had started , and the moon , peering momentarily out from an ink-black cloudscape , showed a coastal desert of pure white sand backed by low hills of chemical-green and violent reds , cactus everywhere and trucks parked on the dirt verge , most of them painted in livid crimson on white — Optimista , Primero de Mayo , La Virgen . |
| 19 | Painter-signatures of Euphronios and Euthymides cease around 500 , and their styles of drawing can not be traced further ; but the signature Euphronios epoiesen begins about the same time and continues for twenty years or more , always on cups , most of them painted by one man , evidently his pupil and one of the greatest of the next generation , Onesimos . |
| 20 | She had them hidden in a box , in the store room . |
| 21 | No , you put them hidden in the |
| 22 | I just do n't understand where father got them or why he kept them hidden like this . ’ |
| 23 | He had them erected in the grounds of his house — now council offices . |
| 24 | Make sure electric blankets are BEAB approved , and have them checked by the manufacturer every four to five years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 27 | By the next day , there were three angels keeping vigil by her bed , one of them clad in black applying cold cloths to her brow . |
| 28 | But then , most of them relied on the head men , we used to tell them you see , to keep their mouth shut . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The distance was short but dawn must not find them exposed without cover . |