Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She first offered monarchs to four ‘ experimental ’ birds and viceroys to four ‘ control ’ birds ; she recorded how many times the birds avoided the butterflies or pecked at them . |
| 2 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded whether they avoided or pecked at them . |
| 3 | Brower then offered viceroys to both classes of jays and recorded the number of trials in which they avoided the butterflies or pecked at them ; the numbers in the Table give her results . |
| 4 | Or sit on them until you explode ? |
| 5 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 6 | If he did n't like something , he 'd let the musicians know exactly what he wanted or expected from them . |
| 7 | They may also come to contract for the community health and care services their patients need , taking over from the social services departments or competing with them . |
| 8 | The use of a suitable media in a filter , encourages bacteria to fix to its surface where they break down these nasties as the water is pumped or passed over them . |
| 9 | Third , it is made public , that is , shared with others who may be able to use the findings or build upon them . |
| 10 | Third , it is made public , ie , shared with others who may be able to use the findings or build upon them . |
| 11 | The cats would scratch them up , or pee on them . ’ |
| 12 | There is that persistent reluctance of Greeks to build factories , or to work in them . |
| 13 | It is not a sign of " malice " to refuse an apology , or to repeat the allegations prior to trial , or to persist in them at the trial : this is no more than steadfastness in the cause ( although if the allegations turn out to be false , such conduct may increase the damages . ) |
| 14 | Anyone can work out who the ‘ subspecies ’ Marxomanni , Mussolimini and Swastici are meant to represent , but they do not really play an important part in the story , since we can feel that John , the Pilgrim , is not really tempted or overwhelmed by them , any more than Lewis ever felt the slightest inclination to become a Maminst or a Fascist . |
| 15 | The endorsement process is repeated until the SSR has been distributed to the managers of all packages which may be affected by it and accepted or rejected by them . |
| 16 | Have you had any , anybody else phone them up or written to them ? |
| 17 | a capital sum may be paid directly to the settlor ; 2. a capital sum may be paid indirectly to the settlor ; 3. a capital sum may be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if a sum is paid to any third party at the settlor 's direction ; 4. a capital sum shall be deemed to be paid to the settlor if the sum is paid to any third party by virtue of an assignment by the settlor of his right to receive it ; and 5. a capital sum shall be deemed to have been paid to the settlor if it is otherwise paid or applied by them for the benefit of the settlor . |
| 18 | Many of the letters are flying in the air above their fellows , or sinking beneath them , and the orchestra of different characters is dominated by the solo x key . |
| 19 | For the rest , they can choose either to give preferential treatment to foreign firms ( by means of incentives not available to local firms ) , or to discriminate against them by such means as Brazil 's market reserve policies . |
| 20 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 21 | The client for whom the firm is acting should be clearly identified and care should be taken to ensure that third parties do not form the impression that the firm is advising them or acting for them when this is not the case . |
| 22 | I did n't use to curse or swear at them . |
| 23 | The Americans helping them , or listening to them , include a mixture of officials and academics , particularly from Harvard . |
| 24 | If you do decide to offer items to the media , your organisation or client 's own products are by far the best giveaways , for they enable the producer , journalist or researcher to try them out for themselves before featuring or writing about them . |
| 25 | In this guise , the computer 's role was to deliver machine-readable information that would supplement that normally found by students in printed form or received by them in the shape of lectures and seminars . |
| 26 | We never recorded what information we sent them or received from them . |
| 27 | I no longer believed them or believed in them , having to believe in myself as a matter of survival . |
| 28 | let me read those verses again , he says my flock wandered through all the mountains and on every high hill , and my flock was scattered over all the surface of the earth , there was no one to search or seek for them . |
| 29 | Indeed , he might have been perturbed to think that I was diverting so much energy towards his defence ; but , so far as I know , he was ignorant of these interventions of mine , as I never showed him the letters or alluded to them . |
| 30 | The unequal status which women possess in society results in a situation in which what they have to say is for many purposes discounted or reinterpreted for them . |