Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | France has 40 resorts and Spain 31 , most of them little known over here but none the worse for that , provided you can speak the appropriate language . |
| 2 | I keep saying when they get sort of quite long that I 'll have them properly shaped and |
| 3 | She would not part with her shoes for long enough for me to have them properly repaired . |
| 4 | Write these down and get them properly agreed with your boss . |
| 5 | The cummerbund , meant to be worn with the singlebreasted jacket , is also acceptable , but I fear I find them rather affected . |
| 6 | Now that he was left alone with the two women , both of whom ( he imagined ) rather admired him , Rupert felt a sense of power , though there being two of them rather limited the scope of what he could do — cramped his style , he might almost have said . |
| 7 | It was felt that the TUCCs would not have the time or resources necessary to look after the wide range of services and operators , many of them locally based , in the bus sector . |
| 8 | On Sept. 6 President Fernando Collor de Mello ordered Justice Minister Bernardo Cabral to investigate charges by the human rights organization Amnesty International that death squads , some of them secretly operated by the police , were murdering street children . |
| 9 | But it 's true to say that most actors feel their drama school training has left them inadequately prepared for working in television and film by the time they graduate . |
| 10 | Foreign Minister Joaquín Ricardo García was quoted by local radio as saying on July 18 that a total of 13,000 Haitian citizens , most of whom were migrant workers , had left the country " in the last few days " , 2,000 of them forcibly repatriated and the rest having left " voluntarily " . |
| 11 | Pinning a bright smile on her face , she carefully placed a sugar bowl on each table , beamed at them all impartially , scurried back for the pile of menus on the counter — only to have them forcibly removed from her hands by Feargal . |
| 12 | ML 6 , caught in a searchlight , was also hit and afire , and survivors from the two craft drifted down river on rafts , many of them badly wounded — Micky Wynn had lost an eye and been rescued unconscious from the MTB 's charthouse . |
| 13 | When Sabin developed his attenuated strains of polio he energetically pursued his goal of making them widely accepted as vaccine strains . |
| 14 | The crisis can not be interpreted in terms of independent action by the commons ; the magnates too petitioned for reforms , and a group of them vigorously supported Archbishop Stratford in 1341 . |
| 15 | However , the contract will doubtless contain other terms , some of them expressly agreed between the parties ( e.g. the date of delivery ) and some of them implied ( often by other sections of the Sale of Goods Act — e.g. as to the place of delivery , section 29(2) ) . |
| 16 | Both of them rarely talked . |
| 17 | There are three reasons for this : first , women dress differently from ‘ 20 men all wearing pinstripe suits ’ , making them more memorable ; second , they offload their emotions over redundancy much more quickly , making them better prepared to look for a new position ; and third , because of the so-called ‘ glass ceiling ’ , those women who do make it to the top are ‘ slightly better ’ than their male competitors . |
| 18 | I 'd like to see them better treated . |
| 19 | The view is widespread among the senior officers we talked to , and among ordinary policemen , that policewomen , as women , have instincts and capabilities which make them better suited to specific types of police work . |
| 20 | One thing the microfloppies have in common is the fact that they are all under 10 cm in diameter , making them better suited for briefcase-size computers than the existing 5¼-inch ( 12–5 cm ) and 8-inch ( 20 cm ) diameter floppy discs . |
| 21 | And this makes them better suited to the longer distances . ’ |
| 22 | When tenants take on a lease they may make extensive alterations to the premises in order to make them better suited to the type of catering enterprise they intend to undertake . |
| 23 | Perhaps editors need to bear in mind what authors may think when this sort of thing happens and keep them better informed . |
| 24 | One of the other the other things that we will erm be taking responsibility for is , is something called the Front Line Review which I want to come back too , because it 's something that will interest you as a group erm , but that 's basically again a Council learn initiative , where the Council 's want to look at over the next month all of the front line services we provide , the , the services that you come into contact with on a day to day erm level and look at , you know , are we providing a service as you want , are we providing them efficiently , how would you like to see them better provided . |
| 25 | Most of them apparently turned up for the first Sunday game at the picturesque University ground . |
| 26 | Malengin Fole led them through several apartments , all of them apparently abandoned . |
| 27 | The addition of this weakling to the family of Test nations will seen them merely tolerated as non-profitable visitors , lower on the scale even than Sri Lanka , who are still awaiting a first invitation to play West Indies after 10 years of Test status . |
| 28 | They have twenty six mig 21s and 15 Su 22 , some of them constantly armed and ready for action . |
| 29 | Most of them only looked about 15 years old . |
| 30 | When he had them so placed , he spurred ahead and drew dear , and the archers cut them down like corn . |