Example sentences of "[pron] [subord] [verb] they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Keith would sooner help someone than hurt them . |
| 2 | There would be men enough left with them to ensure their safe withdrawal , not enough to make it worth his while disabling them . |
| 3 | The high strength of thin fibres may be due in part to the fact that such fibres are very easily bent and it is therefore easier to bend them than to scratch them . |
| 4 | According to this view , the working classes had more to unite them than divide them , and the separateness of states was a piece of mystification which helped to perpetuate capitalism . |
| 5 | ‘ Dying on your partner ’ , he said ‘ is much fairer and more financially beneficial to them than divorcing them . ’ |
| 6 | A few months after my return Goreng found a use for the less obviously subtle or versatile of his captives , which while turning them to material advantage also catered for a certain desired degree of planned redundancy . |
| 7 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 8 | I 'm wondering if I should ring them actually , from unit , and ask them if tell them what 's happening and will she be able to go on Income Support if she does give it up ? |
| 9 | Mind , must of re-done those toilets or something cos look they 've even got a disabled |
| 10 | Well we did did n't we cos sat 'em |
| 11 | An officer on foot will often spend a whole shift without doing any police work , and without talking to anyone except to greet them and provide simple information … |
| 12 | The general public seem to think we do nothing but skin them . |
| 13 | Well she said he he 's done nothing but bully them . |
| 14 | Er because having written half the songs as well , the lyrics all mean something so I may as well have spoken them as sung them . |
| 15 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 16 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |
| 17 | It is precisely because I am so in favour of family planning — of women ( and men ) planning their own families — that I am so supicious of any population policy that attempts to do anything but help them have the number of children they think is best for them . |