Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They have seen a phenomenon they believe to be smoke , and with nothing but their personal opinion to guide them , they have promptly pronounced its origins as fire . ’ |
| 2 | TWO PEOPLE were charged last night with terror offences in London while police hunting the killers of a soldier in Derby named a man they wanted for questioning . |
| 3 | Detectives are tonight still questioning a man they arrested on Saturday night . |
| 4 | Bereaved people have done it too , perhaps starting a fund to commemorate a person they loved in order to help other sufferers of the same condition . |
| 5 | Minutes before three youths had been seen in a car driving at high speed … as they crossed a junction they collided with another car and spun into Mr James . |
| 6 | After 1714 the balance shifted to a point where the King and the Commons had something like mutual vetoes : the King chose the ministers and could normally be sure of not having to put up with a minister he disliked , but the Commons could reject a minister they disliked by refusing to vote for the taxes he proposed , thus pushing the King into dismissing him . |
| 7 | If they had a voyage they paid for it . |
| 8 | Whenever the papers wanted a quote they came to me , when the local radio wanted an interview I was the spokesperson . |