`` They straggle at such a rate '', he told the commander-in-chief, `` that if the enemy were enterprising, they might get two from us, when we would take one of them, which makes me wish General Howe would go on, lest any incident happen to us ''.

They had to be told that one.

They told police the intruders took a mink coat worth $700, a black Persian lamb jacket worth $450 ; ;

" They want a book of 200 pages or more ", Alcott told his daughter.

They were told to limit themselves to the specification of OR. 1132.

" They will abuse bar staff, half a dozen a night, normally gangs of blokes, the marketing is directed at yobbos ," one bar owner told The Age newspaper.

They told Columbanus it was intended as a sacrifice to their god Wodan ( Illi aiunt se Deo suo Vodano nomine ), whom they identified with Roman Mercury.

They chased him relentlessly and upon reaching Delphi he was told by Apollo that he should go to Athens to seek Athena's aid ; he did so and she arranged a trial.

" They won't have me in the army, at any rate at present, because of my lungs ", Orwell told Geoffrey Gorer.

They eventually rose up in an attempt to regain their rights ; but their story is not told here.

They also differ from the Ulster Cycle in that the stories are told mainly in verse and that in tone they are nearer to the tradition of romance than the tradition of epic.

They did what they were told, bringing him seventy heads piled up in two heaps at his gate the next day.

:: They went and told the sexton, and

They told the residents of Lansing, New York that this new " city " had an area of 65 blocks, contained a church and also a public and academic square.

They, comparing the oracular response with this occurrence, decided that this was the person whom the god told them the wagon would bring.

They are told and retold endlessly in the teahouses and caravanserais of Asia and can be heard in homes and on the radio.

They placed him in a car and told him to cover himself with a blanket.

They were finally selected and told they were going to be a band.

They also allege that Zhou purposefully told Nehru that there were no border issues with India.

" They told me, " Make Mad your home ," said Aragonés, " and I took it literally.

They told him that they wanted some parts of the film to have a real and contemporary feeling and other parts, like the dream sequences, to have a very stylized look.

They land in several nearby countries that prove inhospitable, and are finally told by an oracle that they must return to the land of their forebears.

They are told only that the challenges are neither insurmountable nor unreasonable.

They were told they were on a highly secret mission, and were instructed to return to Germany after the operation and enroll in flight school.

When Labour won the 1997 general election, Powell told his wife, Pamela Wilson, " They have voted to break up the United Kingdom.

They brought to it all the odors that clung to men like themselves, that of their own sweat, of campfire smoke, of horses and cattle.

They thought of themselves, to use Jefferson's words, as `` the Argonauts '' who had lived in `` the Heroic Age ''.

They never troubled themselves about us while we were playing, because the fence formed such a definite boundary and `` Don't go outside the gate '' was a command so impossible of misinterpretation.

Lautner, for his part, `` belonged to the present-day race of small artists, who do not demand the utmost of themselves '', and the bitter description of the type includes such epithets as `` wretched little poseurs '', the devastating indictment `` they do not know how to be wretched decently and in order '', and the somewhat extreme prophecy, so far not fulfilled: `` They will be destroyed ''.

They bring an inextricable component of value within themselves, with attractions and repulsions native to their own quality.

Defoe then commented, `` If they Could Draw that young Gentleman into Their Measures They would show themselves quickly, for they are not asham'd to Say They want only a head to Make a beginning ''.

They had watered their stock at immense profit, then had raised the price of coal fifty cents a ton, netting themselves another $20,000,000 in annual profit.

They accuse their enemies of precisely the crimes of which they themselves are most guilty.

They feel that World War 3, has already begun, and they are setting themselves up as a `` last line of defense '' against the Communist advance.

They were always leaping to light cigarettes, open car doors, fill plates or glasses, and I mistrusted the whole lot of them to the same degree that I mistrusted bake shops that called themselves `` Sanitary Bake Shops ''.

They were not free to be themselves in this situation, an interpersonal one, where there was an observer of their reactions and they had no guide for acceptable behavior.

They think of themselves as trustees for the entire society and try to serve the entire society.

They are in themselves neutral, and, so far as they get a moral quality, they get it only through being invested with it by the attitude of the onlooker.

They will kneel and plead for Boris' leadership in a strangely intense song, its phrases irregularly broken as if gasping for breath, but when the police with their cudgels move away, they mock and grumble and fight among themselves.

They had ruined the radar warning system with their window, they had made themselves invisible above their flares.

They love to dust, scrub, polish, wax floors, move the furniture around from place to place, take down the curtains, put up new ones and have themselves a real ball.

They depend on my supposedly expert knowledge of a trade of which they themselves know little.

They were not capable of supporting themselves off the plantation, and Louisiana law required their removal from the state.

They can hardly restrain themselves from raising the question of whether Republicans, if they had been in power, would have made `` amateurish and monumental blunders '' in Cuba.

They sit alone in their rooms and try to paint, and only succeed in isolating themselves still farther from life.

They were even, Anne and George, probably thinking themselves very considerate in not hinting that she really should cut out `` one or two countries '' and come home in August to get Cousin Emma's house ready before the teachers came to Tuxapoka in September.

They had left themselves too much to discover.

They were reflecting trends in research and discourse initiated by Feminists in the academy, although they excused themselves from commenting specifically on those pioneering critics.

They could also use their strong fins to hoist themselves out of the water and onto dry land if circumstances required it.