Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | But erm n n not , not the handicrafts that they teach them now at school . |
| 4 | ‘ If you 've got a pen I 'll read the directions as they gave them to the family . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The assistants price the items as they stack them on the shelves , or when they are already on the shelves . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They make sense to the children and they permit them to make sense of their world . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |