Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [conj] they [verb] them " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hated the Communists because they nicked his family 's bit of land and he hated the Germans because they treated them like pigs , ’ says Peter Solowka . |
| 2 | Parents are extremely keen to have their children admitted to the college because they want them to take advantage of the excellent education that it offers . |
| 3 | They bought the potatoes and they put them into this machine to mix them up with a couple of pails of water and then they drained all the taters off and left the milk that was left and used that for the baking . |
| 4 | But erm n n not , not the handicrafts that they teach them now at school . |
| 5 | They had bought flowers in the village and they laid them on the new grave . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 7 | I mean the Bradford Dukes always win at Bradford because I 've heard on the grapevine , not from me , that they 've got little bumps round the bends and they fill them in and only the Bradford riders know whereabouts they are , so they skirt round them . |
| 8 | so he goes oh what the hell and they shovel tea down him and erm he starts throwing up and , what happened is that when he , when he gets like cut down they ta take him back to the room and they put them in their boxer shorts just sitting there and they 've wired up a mouse trap to like their their |
| 9 | Well , they marched them to the top of the hill and they marched them down again . |
| 10 | On the night before they took them out to be shot . |
| 11 | In the past , Joanne and the other teachers had been able to measure how well they were doing by ‘ ticking off ’ sections of the syllabus as they completed them . |
| 12 | Instead of picking out creatures that are buried , they collect spire shells and crustaceans that lie on the surface and they find them by sight . |
| 13 | Some may prefer to be given a global picture of what is involved in the task and then be allowed to fill in the details as they need them . |
| 14 | It is not open to the health authority to deny liability on the ground that the organism that they injured was not in law the plaintiff and yet to deny responsibility for the defects with which the plaintiff was born on the ground that they inflicted them before birth . |
| 15 | The assistants price the items as they stack them on the shelves , or when they are already on the shelves . |
| 16 | There are fertilisers gone down the river and they kill them all off . |
| 17 | Yet that person with AD may be ‘ positioned ’ differently , both by themselves and others , if they avoid the games because they perceive them as a mindless waste of time and prefer to go for a walk instead . |
| 18 | And like my parents sort of went , the thought that they gave them money that we had for it , yeah |
| 19 | After a count of three , soundlessly checked by Delaney with his arm , Silk heaved back on the door as they lobbed them in . |
| 20 | The acting coxswain persevered , his crew , lifelines secured , out on deck scouring the sea for the divers until they spotted them , close to a creel buoy . |
| 21 | What I keep trying to tell him is that if you do something like this , this space underneath has to be at least as much between the top of the S as the and the baseline and they sell them . |
| 22 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 23 | They stay with the paving stones and the plumbing because they understand them , and because they do n't constitute a challenge to anybody . |
| 24 | They make sense to the children and they permit them to make sense of their world . |
| 25 | French workmen fleeing from the dock were fired on because the Germans thought this was an organised rising , the explosions coming so long after the raid that they took them to be the work of the Free French Resistance Movement and threatened reprisals if the ‘ revolt ’ did not stop . |
| 26 | The deviousness and deceitfulness of tobacco advertising , promotion and sponsorship activities which are directed at children lie in the fact that they tell them that one must be healthy and have lung function of 120 per cent . |
| 27 | However , it is possible to concede that defendants should be judged on the facts as they believe them to be , and yet to argue in favour of an exception in rape cases . |
| 28 | In the kitchen the fire was burning low but there was light enough to see the steam rising from the bedclothes as they held them out to air . |
| 29 | only other one he 's got is a silk one so er I was gon na go on Tuesday and have a look and they had them there before Christmas , seven ninety nine and , but it said one size now I do n't know whether the one size will fit Di because the last one I had for him I sent away for and I had erm so I do n't know whether them down there would fit , they were seven ninety nine , there were white and lemon and pale green that was striped I think . |
| 30 | They missed a few kicks at goal but they nailed Northampton to their line and worked up such a storm that they had them scurrying all ways . |