Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 31 | We can not literally weigh religious truth-claims or look at them through a micro- scope . |
| 32 | Observation suggests that young people are most at ease and most open with adults who treat them ‘ casually ’ and as equals , who do not indulge them , act in a condescending way , or look upon them as something ‘ special ’ . |
| 33 | ( 1 ) attitudes towards the nature of representation , ( 2 ) behaviour within council groups , ( 3 ) preference for governing the city as a whole or looking after the interests of a ward , ( 1 ) preference for dealing with general policy issues or with individual problems , ( 5 ) preference for specialisms in one aspect of council work or generalizing over them all , and ( 6 ) attitudes towards the involvement of community organisations in the government of the city ( Newton 1976a:114 ) . |
| 34 | Chiggers — the larval forms of minute skin-burrowing mites , board passing animals , or shoeless people , from the ground or drop on them from vegetation . |
| 35 | Why should n't Gay come to Sunset Cottage , and sink or swim with them ? |
| 36 | There is certainly interaction between these and the processes and responses of many arts : many works are derived from or stimulated by them ; other works articulate new ‘ natural ’ perceptions . |
| 37 | Feminist psychology 's theoretical neglect of power relations is also demonstrated in its tendency to ignore differences in age , ‘ race ’ , class and sexuality , or to deal with them in biological terms . |
| 38 | Those on the sidelines tried not to see them or know about them , but it was difficult . |
| 39 | Peter Gaskell wrote : ‘ The chastity of marriage is but little known or exercised amongst them : husband and wife sin equally , and an habitual indifference to sexual vice is generated which adds one other item to the destruction of domestic habits . ’ |
| 40 | Parts of these may still be in use or have ponds or marlpits in them , but they are generally easy to recognise . |
| 41 | If you received a grant from Gulbenkian or worked with them in any way , then he would be grateful to hear from you . |
| 42 | Mother was almost always at home , ready to play with the children , or to read to them . |
| 43 | Be-bop , sometimes called straight-ahead jazz , is written with eighth notes , but at particular tempos the eighth notes are felt with a lilt or bounce to them . |
| 44 | Though all our knowledge ‘ is in the senses or derived from them ’ , it is not always simply a matter of sensory information . |
| 45 | • A free-running rhythm with a period greater than 24 hours ( because the time-cues were too weak or the subject was unable to receive or respond to them adequately ) ; |
| 46 | ‘ My father specifically forbade us to communicate any of the information it contained to the authorities , or to cooperate with them in any way whatsoever . |
| 47 | Try to recognize your needs , and try to spend time fulfilling them or asking for them . |
| 48 | And among them , or known to them , was a murderer . |
| 49 | The level of attention which a special needs child might merit and deserve may not be possible — or the programme which the rest of the class follow may have to be skewed or truncated or adapted for them to be integrated . |
| 50 | They may not exist or access to them may be refused . |
| 51 | Classes are fine when you 're teaching them or learning in them , very long and boring when you 're just an observer . |
| 52 | I 'd spent so much time on my own , sitting watching birds , or reading about them or drawing them , that I did n't make many friends , and those I had took second place to the birds . |
| 53 | It does n't include the unregistered and unmeasured unemployed — women with men who have to maintain them or claim for them , and those whose dole is exhausted but who are disqualified from supplementary benefit because they live with wage-earners . ) |
| 54 | Snotlings can not be joined by heroes or led by them — they fight as a big mass of their own kind and are far too excited to respond to even the simplest commands . |
| 55 | At any given moment , he could present a convincing case for the client to sell British Telecom shares , reinvesting the proceeds , or to hang onto them and sit tight , or else to double up , or even to buy more shares in a distinctly dubious OTC stock , while hanging onto British Telecom . |
| 56 | Lightweight inexpensive fabrics like cheesecloth and muslin can be shirred and hung between rods , wires or traverse poles attached below the ceiling and above the skirting or baseboards , and either caught back at doors and windows or fixed around them ( with rods or wires attached to the top of the frames ) . |
| 57 | Be determined not to think about or dwell upon them . |
| 58 | They do not have the wherewithal to carry out the administration and paperwork or to watch over them and ensure that they learn on the job and produce an effective piece of craftsmanship . |
| 59 | Narrative is concerned with process , that is to say , with change in a given state of affairs ; or it converts problems and contradictions in human experience into process in order to understand or cope with them . |
| 60 | However one designs the procedure — whether a parliamentary procedure or a public inquiry — the majority of poeple will think that it is unfair that it is being forced or inflicted on them . |