Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the thirteenth century they got rid of old restrictions which fettered the freedom of alienation in the interest of lords or heirs . |
| 2 | They got rid of electronic monitoring equipment , including TV cameras and recorders , by complaining that these interfered with their powers and caused headaches . |
| 3 | All members of the company ( though not its secretary ) must be qualified solicitors , and there are special provisions to apply when a member dies or is struck off the roll or otherwise loses his qualification to practise , which in essence provide that such member 's shares become non-voting so long as they remain registered in unqualified hands , and only qualified solicitors will be able to vote as proxies . |
| 4 | INSET courses are normally conceived for practising teachers who require refresher courses from time to time : when unqualified teachers take part in them , they remain classed as untrained teachers by the end of their course . |
| 5 | I can recall a class of ten-year-olds designing their own Norman village for several drama sessions before they became engaged in non-projected drama activity ( personal play , as Peter Slade calls it ) , i.e. before they started interacting with each other as villagers instead of through their designs . |
| 6 | The more media permeated life from 1945 to 1990 , and the more they became concentrated in international conglomerates , the more important the accountability of media themselves became . |
| 7 | These broad silver coins were first minted under his orders and they became known as Giulii for that reason . |
| 8 | In April 1990 , as the downturn deepened , they sold LET to Swedish life insurance giant SSP for £550 million , pocketing £40 million each and staying on to run the company . |
| 9 | But there was a house on this repossession and it was sort of like just a sort of young couple and they 'd bought this house and it was like a two bedroom house and they 'd done up beautiful . |
| 10 | They 'd gone from legless to stone cold sober in nothing flat . |
| 11 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 12 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 13 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 14 | They 'd seemed on close terms since the night he overheard them quarrelling . |
| 15 | They seem built into human nature and it is often impossible to imagine a society without them . |
| 16 | Everything with them , you know like er , I mean , I mean they get paid for fair enough |
| 17 | A huge £50 million has been raised for charity since the race started in 1981 and runners can pat themselves on the back for all the financial help they have given to worthy causes . |
| 18 | They feel pinched by rising costs in repairs and housing . |
| 19 | We learn such skills from our mothers , midwives , books and from our own inner promptings , and as we use them they become absorbed into everyday life , often so much so that we no longer realize just how much we have learnt and are capable of ; in fact , we only take notice of the areas in which we feel that we fail . |
| 20 | Tiling joints can be extremely difficult to clean if they become filled with compacted grease . |
| 21 | These isotopes begin to decay as soon as the meteorites enter the Earth 's atmosphere , where they become shielded from cosmic rays . |
| 22 | Do authorities know how many carers belonging to ethnic minorities they have in their district , how many require respite facilities , and how they fare compared with other carers ? |
| 23 | It was suggested that the morale of Registry staff was low , and they appeared isolated from other parts of the departments with no appreciation of their role in terms of other functions , due to the lack of feedback about their performance in meeting the needs of the users . |
| 24 | The involvement of approved social workers ( ASWs ) in the assessment process was associated with diversion of many of the women away from compulsory admission , although even they appeared affected by patriarchal assumptions . |
| 25 | overlap with auction house chatter in that aristos are always selling the contents of the servants ' hall if they 've fallen on super-taxed times , or buying things if their grandfathers went offshore . |
| 26 | Cold water fish and then er what are generally known as tropical fish which are basically fresh water tropical fish , and maybe this last fifteen years or so , er a step up from that they 've gone onto tropical marine fish . |
| 27 | The Sanpro industry as a whole has been quick to wheel out the public relations machinery , and they 've gone to great lengths to reassure women that there really is n't any danger at all . |
| 28 | He says they 've led to racial tension , crime and drug abuse . |
| 29 | ‘ Many are perfectly normal — except that they 've hit on hard times . |
| 30 | Varnish stain but erm In in this particular light now I can see where they 've put on thick blodges that run down . |