Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing about them surprised him . |
| 2 | Without even knowing it , we may make assumptions about them based on the fact that they 're called Charles rather than Kevin . |
| 3 | Philip had forgotten temporarily about them moving from Little Knoll , what with getting Caspar out of the tractor-shed and thinking of Lee making his way up to Jubilee Wood . |
| 4 | These are indeed vital , but overconcern about them obscures wider issues . |
| 5 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 6 | However , to the extent that our assumptions for thinking about them remain within the framework which derives from Weberian thought , we may well not recognize them for what they may be . |
| 7 | Right You know you were talking about them deleting all er references ? |
| 8 | One need not know about them to hold them out as a threat . |
| 9 | Rumours about them had circulated for several years but this was the first time they had been linked by a named source — former US ambassador Lewis Fields . |
| 10 | Did you ever hear them talk about them smuggling the whisky through the glen ? |
| 11 | ‘ I think I would have known if she was very upset about them splitting up . ’ |
| 12 | He 'd had ideas about them buying somewhere of their own , but so far they 'd had to stay as ideas . |
| 13 | Right , I 've just got a , two or three minutes , I 've just wan na get something quickly done before we , we close and I 'm not gon na look up all the references , because your get them for next week any way in , in the house group , but , now , now in a sense it 's difficult to understand to take all this in after all his God and were people , how do we understand Jesus , it 's , it 's difficult , however knowing something about them does help us to understand something important , it helps us to understand what happened when Jesus ascended , when he went back to heaven , you see when Jesus arose from the earth the , the disciples who watch him it says there in Acts chapter one , they saw him go up in to the heaven , up into you know in a cloud , have you ever thought what that really means what on earth was it , they saw him go up in a cloud , can you image a sort of great clouds coming and dropping down over the mountain top there and was suddenly whisking Jesus up and then watching Jesus going up in this cloud into the sky , I do n't really think it was quite like that , have you ever wonder why it was that Jesus went up in a cloud , you see what was he doing , he was n't beginning a journey to some far off place in the universe , some distant corner where God the father was , he was n't doing that at all , what do you think a cloud can you , give any suggestions of what a cloud might represent because very often a lot of some of the language in the bible is picture language and it , it , it speaks as something else , what do , what do you think a cloud , does any body have suggestions of what a cloud might speak to us about , or speak to us of , sorry , power yeah , any thing else |
| 14 | When the mail van pulled up outside , the hum of talk about them went silent . |
| 15 | Fiji stood tall while all about them went slip-sliding away . |
| 16 | You were right about them operatin' an outside patrol , as y'kin see . |
| 17 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 18 | A thousand villeins round about them swarmed |
| 19 | We have to allow disabled people access to this equipment , if we are serious about them taking part in the planning and evaluation of services . |
| 20 | Yeah but you were moaning about them taking er all the detail off . |
| 21 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 22 | There was a closeness about them borne of familiarity . |
| 23 | The result was that in spite of some misgivings about the script and the incessantly repetitive dialogue about them doing their own thing , reviewers spoke glowingly of ‘ an actor named Jack Nicholson … is magnificent ’ and ‘ he gave a brilliantly witty performance ’ . |
| 24 | I 've never read a U2 interview so I do n't know if there are rumours about them doing insane things . |
| 25 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 26 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 27 | I have written to one or two retail outlets complaining about them selling these fish , also spoken to a couple of managers but they are still selling these fish . |
| 28 | I have written about them to show that spiritual journeys and beliefs are legitimate , fruitful ways of exploring the world and to encourage writers to go ahead with this kind of exploration if they so wish . |
| 29 | He wondered if Rufus had children and if so did he worry about them coming to terrible harm the way Adam worried ? |
| 30 | But er But I 've known that story about the er about them coming up that way and they stayed at the the burnside at Dalvaine . |