Example sentences of "they [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	Many people value their group award certificates , such as HNC or HND , highly and wish to display them or present them to prospective employers .
2	the ruins of peoples which are still found here and there and which are no longer capable of a national existence , are absorbed by the larger nations and either become part of them or maintain themselves as ethnographic monuments without political significance .
3	The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern .
4	As a change and to provide more nourishment , try pouring yogurt over them and topping them with fresh fruit .
5	The first such coins were made from electrum from the rivers that flowed down from the Troilus Mountains , but advantage was soon taken of the different status in the traditional value system of the gold and silver components to separate them and use them for different denominations .
6	Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age .
7	Well obviously they would look after them and keep them in good order , and what have you , so that there was no hold up with them trying to make a wage or whatever .
8	He placed a little white enamel cup before each of them and filled it with strong black tea .
9	But he gave much of his time to them and showered them with expensive gifts .
10	If females are concentrated together then it is much easier for a single male to herd them and defend them from other males .
11	The correct policy with respect to them was thus not to abolish them but to subject them to constructive supervision .

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