Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] they [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Men tried to burn the distaffs while the women tried to stop them by throwing buckets of water . |
| 2 | He 'd suspected them of having an affair for a while , but they had both kept their tracks well covered . |
| 3 | Indeed Katie 's group , when I 'd pushed them into talking about Mitch a little more , spent most of their time examining his picture and finding fault with his appearance . |
| 4 | I have stopped telling customers that it used to be ripened under piles of manure , as it seemed to stop them from buying it . |
| 5 | If you have a hood over your hob or stove you should see that bulbs arc enclosed to protect them from spattered grease and heat . |
| 6 | He managed to rout them by tearing his clothes off and setting them to sail down a river , then blocking the river with a mighty boulder . |
| 7 | Reynolds sought to unite them by avoiding unnecessary controversy . |
| 8 | It was reported that , when ZANU-PF held primary elections in mid-February to select its candidates , several senior party officials , including Joyce Mujuru ( Minister of Community Development and Co-operatives ) , had been defeated , but that Mugabe had reinstated them after nullifying the results . |
| 9 | The bagman-fox , now on home ground , had delayed them by running up a long culvert . |
| 10 | Roger Gernet , hereditary warden of the royal forests of Lancaster , had seized this opportunity to exact from them an ox for winter pasture and a cow for summer pasture , and had prevented them from taking housebote and firebote in the forest . |
| 11 | Later redefinition of the goal as ‘ providing transportation ’ removed the blinkers that had prevented them from realizing that cars were made largely in Detroit but had to be received in good condition in every State , and that driving them to their destination was expensive . |
| 12 | The settlers had claimed legal ownership of the houses in October and had made efforts to move in to the Silwan sector at that time , but the police had prevented them from doing so after the Attorney General , Yosef Harish , had recommended that they be barred from the properties on security considerations . |
| 13 | A policeman had suspected them for loitering about , they would n't give a reasonable explanation or account of themselves . |
| 14 | Wang and Chen , formerly editor and publisher respectively of the banned journal Economic Studies Weekly , had been arrested in October 1989 , and the government-controlled media had accused them of playing a major role in organizing the pro-democracy movement of April-June 1989 [ see pp. 36587 ; 36640-41 ; 36720-22 ] . |
| 15 | He had talked them into leaving . |
| 16 | Airport police confirmed Demeke had gone through security checks , dismissing reports that he had avoided them by transferring from an Oslo flight . |
| 17 | The person they sought had disappeared into thin air ; it was only then did they puzzle and wonder if the dusk had conned them into imagining that they could be mistaken . |
| 18 | The Export Reviewing Committee subsequently reported that the dealers had circumvented them after withdrawing the export licence and dismembering the book , sending the individual sheets ( each valued at an sum below the licence threshold ) to New York . |
| 19 | But Burmese dissidents in the area , including a representative of Aung San Suu Kyi 's own party , said yesterday that Thai local authorities had barred them from meeting the Nobel winners . |
| 20 | We had to placate them by appearing in what they thought was acceptable guise . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course you can drive down and drive back and be back soon , ’ she fumed later when Marc had released them after prolonging his cat-and-mouse game with his brother for as long as possible , ‘ but what 's the point when there is no paper ? ’ |
| 22 | I do not wish to oppose the previous order , although it is debatable — merely to refer to it in passing , to say that I hope that , when the Select Committee on Health takes evidence on the national health service trusts , no witnesses will be intimidated by threats of disciplinary action intended to prevent them from giving evidence . |