Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun] [verb] they [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days this happens when you check in and of course I was asked to open my suitcase to show them the contents . |
| 2 | There was another Moses , a Midianite , who introduced the god Yahweh , a local volcanic god — ‘ a coarse , narrow-minded , local god , violent and bloodthirsty , he had promised his followers to give them a land flowing with milk and honey ’ . |
| 3 | And Gee ( 1975 : 311 ) argues that whereas in I helped them carry the load " I take part in the carrying " , this is not necessarily implied by the sentence with to , where " I need not actually have done any carrying " , as shown by : ( 16a ) I helped them to carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 4 | ( 16b ) * I helped them carry the load by having my secretary get them a cart . |
| 5 | ‘ If they do n't drive , then they ask their husbands to give them a lift . |
| 6 | Both men had pocketed their torches to allow them a better grip on their shotguns , and a couple of times they interrupted their progress to stand straining their ears into the whispering darkness around them for any sound of the fearsome dogs . |