Example sentences of "[vb pp] they [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have heard them for some time ; now we see them , red and white on the green of the plains . |
| 2 | The decision arose from a claim lodged with the ECJ by a group of mainly Spanish-owned fishing companies , employing vessels registered as British , that amendments to the UK 1988 Merchant Shipping Act which excluded 95 of their vessels from British waters were illegal under EC law and had exposed them to financial ruin . |
| 3 | However , no accounting standard-setting body in the world has recognized them as serious propositions for replacing accruals accounting . |
| 4 | In recent months their flagrantly communal slogans ( 'Say it with pride — I am a Hindu' ) have propelled them to significant gains in municipal and other elections . |
| 5 | The MPs said Mr Clarke had received them with great sympathy and had promised to take time to consider every possible factor which could strengthen the town 's security . |
| 6 | The River Thames had received them with some kindness , not passing on to them hepatitis or typhoid or any of the other plagues its waters might be carrying . |
| 7 | And why not have placed them for safe keeping in a pocket , satchel or valise ? |
| 8 | Meryl had joined them with some reluctance after the welcoming address , but the moment had been well chosen ; Anthea and the professor had been deep in conversation with an eager group of ladies from Leicester , leaving Meryl momentarily alone . |
| 9 | Sarah had joined them through another miracle , a cloak thrown by Mary Jacobus which upheld her feet on the water . |
| 10 | Welshman Ian Woosnam would have joined them in second place but for a double bogey at the 17th for a 73 , while Scotland 's Colin Montgomerie is tucked in just behind after finishing four over par . |
| 11 | The Viennese modernists , Klimt , von Hofmannsthal , Hoffmann , Moser , had only joined them in this acceptance . |
| 12 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 13 | I 've given them to that solicitor that |
| 14 | ( This explains the small amount of attention given them by contemporary theorists of enlightenment in contrast to the adulation lavished on the Prussian and Russian rulers . ) |
| 15 | Does the Secretary of State not accept that our valley councils have lost more in rate support grant over the past 10 years than he has given them in new money in the latest package ? |
| 16 | In the past , the orthodox approach had been to take these literally , while the rationalists had dismissed them as arbitrary fiction . |
| 17 | European investors have traditionally taken this view of FRNs and have regarded them as close substitutes for money market securities . |
| 18 | Contemporaries certainly regarded them in this light . |
| 19 | Contemporaries certainly regarded them in this light . |
| 20 | In addition to securing Commonwealth support for their position , the British sought to consolidate their own aviation policy into some definable form , something which had eluded them for several years . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , RUC 's bid to capture one of the few trophies to have eluded them in junior soccer got off to a much more convincing start as they trounced Harland and Wolff Welders in the first round of the cup competition . |
| 22 | However , even if they do not make the play-offs , the Chiefs have achieved a degree of respectability that has eluded them in past seasons . |
| 23 | The turbulence will have carried them over different paths . |
| 24 | The RCM held that , if the parents of refugee children had discouraged them from religious practices , their temporary guardians should not presume to treat them differently . |
| 25 | What could be anticipated with confidence was the beneficial results of redistribution , for Unionists had expected them for some time . |
| 26 | I had expected them at that stage to do the decent thing and wait for us to catch up but , smelling their first blood of the season , they continued in much the same fashion and eventually ran out 7–0 victors . |
| 27 | In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other . |
| 28 | They had known all along they had a good , competitive car ; a single mistake had mired them for three races ; it was now solved and they could build for the future . |
| 29 | But she had earned them on sheer merit . |
| 30 | It 's important that we identify what desires and needs we could have in common with one another when using this approach ; if we do n't know the people concerned very well , or have not considered them in this way , we need to use the participative approach described above . |