Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When efforts to persuade them to go proved fruitless , the building began to be demolished around their heads . |
| 2 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 3 | As they became established , shares in many of them became quoted on the Stock Exchange . |
| 4 | and one of them got bunked off |
| 5 | The rest of Europe laughs at the feudal system that most of them got rid of centuries ago . |
| 6 | Supposing one of them got carried away and hit the old boy too hard . |
| 7 | Many of them got burnt out . |
| 8 | The girls were called Lizzie , Winnie , Ada and Edith , and I think all of them got married . |
| 9 | Visiting friends can be a great help for this , and you can ask them to come prepared with items to read to the patient , or ideas to discuss . |
| 10 | With the demise of the traditional industrial landscapes nostalgia for them has grown . |
| 11 | ‘ Leave them alone until someone who understands them has examined the site . |
| 12 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 13 | ‘ If critics have any reason for existence , ’ one of them has said , ‘ this is it : to give assurance of value , and to provide somehow perhaps anyhow — the means by which readers may be put in possession of the valuable book . ’ |
| 14 | Love and trust still exist , but because the emotional machinery that registers them has gone wrong , we do not feel as we used to . |
| 15 | The employees modify their expectations ; some of the trust between them has gone and with it , as Goffee noted , loyalty or commitment to the organization is reduced . |
| 16 | ‘ Now that opposition forces have overthrown Siad Barre , the single objective which united them has gone . |
| 17 | I have five children and not much money and not one of them has gone wrong and they all treat me with great respect . |
| 18 | Over the past 15 years perinatal mortality rates have more than halved while the social and political pressure to measure and interpret them has increased . |
| 19 | The promotion has led to some shops selling out of £120 vacuum cleaners , and the Cambuslang , Strathclyde , factory that makes them has defied the recession by switching to seven-day working . |
| 20 | There are unlikely to be any Scottish Conservative Back Benchers either , not only because there are so few of them but because none of them has participated in this debate , apart from a brief intervention by the hon. and learned member for Perth and Kinross ( Sir N. Fairbairn ) that could hardly have been described as serious participation . |
| 21 | Other sugar substitutes like saccharin , cyclamate and aspartame , are all targetted at dieters , combining a sweet taste with no calories ( although each one of them has faced questions concerning safety ) . |
| 22 | This is probably because they are all adapted to forest or woodland conditions and none of them has developed the close-knit social formations that are characteristic of open-country animals . |
| 23 | Each of them has reached me and I know not how to save myself . ’ |
| 24 | One of them has escaped from a particularly unusual commitment — he was once an angel , but has chosen to become a human being , for the love of humanity . |
| 25 | The development of these powerful new means of communication and the accompanying development of personnel highly skilled in them has expanded the means of control of information as well as its dissemination . |
| 26 | Dividing the strata into two broad bands — the male non-manual and the male manual workers — Table 2.2 demonstrates the degree to which the distribution of earnings between them has remained relatively constant over the past fifty years . |
| 27 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 28 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The number of business managers and City executives among them has soared , ’ Hamilton-Phillips explains . |
| 30 | It is difficult to accept the praises of some American critics for the overblown gigantism of the Beaux-Arts , particularly as none of them has followed Ruskin 's injunction to see architecture as mirroring the life of a society in all its facets . |