Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] they [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is confident that between them they can do their bit towards the deciding Test in a gripping series with Pakistan ‘ being remembered for the right reasons . ’ |
| 2 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 3 | British Telecom says it plans to develop links between the two companies ' local network management systems — Hewlett-Packard 's OpenView and Sun 's SunNet Manager , and its own Concert system — and chose those two companies as its first partners because it believes that between them they control about 60% of the local network management market . |
| 4 | He saw that through them she was imagining a new life . |
| 5 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , ‘ you people have a habit sometimes of coming here to Israel with some specific details and thinking that from them you can deduce some universal truth . |
| 6 | You select the facts that are telling ( pun intended ) , the facts that will advance your story or make clear your characters or even make your locations easy to assimilate , and you hope that from them you can produce something that is not too far distant from the unwritable reality . |
| 7 | " You search the scriptures " , Jesus once replied to his critics , " because you think that in them you have eternal life ; and it is they that bear witness to me . |
| 8 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 9 | I suppose that to them she represented a fast , efficient approach to life that jarred with their more laid-back , aristocratic one . |
| 10 | She had ideas about these two , especially about Michel , but saw that to them she was invisible , not quite real , as au pair girls frequently , perhaps usually , are . |
| 11 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |
| 12 | A spokesperson commented : ‘ It 's true that without them we may well have closed . ’ |
| 13 | Never let the politicians get hold of your own particular source of comfort and kid you that without them it will not survive . |
| 14 | Old servants of the railway company came into the signal-box from which the broadcast was given and spoke of the closing of the station as if for them it was the end of a world . |
| 15 | The constable was soon joined by his colleagues and between them they obtained detailed descriptions of the man who had dashed from the direction of the bakery . |
| 16 | They were respectively a banker 's son , a Junker and a retired army major , and between them they represented the whole range of Junker-middle-class collusion and delusion . |
| 17 | In 1835 she teamed up with two other pauper girls , Eliza Johnson and Ann Yerbury , and between them they occupied three tenements belonging to Thomas Edwards on Naish 's Street . |
| 18 | The other men moved in , and between them they tore all her clothes off , an intense frenzy , until she stood in front of them , whimpering naked in nothing more than her flat walking-shoes . |
| 19 | Meredith lost herself in the arrangements , and between them they managed to create a reasonable atmosphere again . |
| 20 | And between them they make up a total of thirty-eight different characters . |
| 21 | He hurried to her aid and between them they managed to half-carry Miss Merchiston from the room . |
| 22 | There were six other octogenarians also in attendance and between them they had notched up 170 years service with P&O companies . |
| 23 | She was soon back with a trolley and all the necessary requisites , and between them they washed the woman from top to toe , and dressed her in a white hospital gown . |
| 24 | Penny went shopping with Rowan , into one of those very expensive boutiques shops , yeah , and between them they bought this dress , and when they got it home , Rowan 's mother would n't let her have it because it was too revealing and so Penny was stuck with it and then her mother would n't let her have it either , but the shop would n't refund , it would only give them credit so she 's got all this money to spend in the shop . |
| 25 | and between them they decided |
| 26 | Where what you do is take something , that is capable of doing that , and you take something that 's capable of doing that , and you join them together , and between them you get so much more than they could do individually . |
| 27 | When he crossed the Glen it would be in his own good time , and with an eye to what prizes were left alive for the taking , and for them he would fight as doughtily as any man if he must . |
| 28 | ‘ And for them it was exotic . |
| 29 | By that age , 51% have been promoted out of clerical work and for them it is merely a stepping-stone to a higher status non-manual job . |
| 30 | Nobody else in this dive has any money , and for them it will he a long cold evening . |