Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing about them surprised him . |
| 2 | Something about them made him feel deeply afraid , but he knew that he could n't just stand there . |
| 3 | One need not know about them to hold them out as a threat . |
| 4 | And anyway , even if we ask them , I mean , even if they think we can do something about it , though Christ knows what , I do n't want a lot of knowalls who have n't got any kids and do n't know the first thing about them telling us what to do with ours — ’ |
| 5 | I 'm getting paranoid about that , determined not to sign anything , worried that maybe I already have when they first brought me here and said it was just a receipt for personal effects or a legal-aid application or whatever , and I worry about them getting me to sign something when I 'm tired and they 've been interviewing me in shifts and all I want to do is go to bed and sleep and they say oh do us all a favour and sign this and you can sleep , come on now ; it 's just a formality you can always deny it later , change your mind , but you ca n't you ca n't of course , they 're lying and you ca n't ; I even worry about signing something in my sleep , or them hypnotising me and getting me to do it that way ; hell , I do n't know what they get up to . |
| 6 | Mythological stories about them suggest they are necessarily seen in this simplistic way to reaffirm to ‘ real polises ’ that it is they who are the true inhabitants of the pragmatic world of conflict and action . |
| 7 | But ultimately the test is whether the buyer could fairly and reasonably refuse to accept the physical goods proffered to him on the ground that their failure to correspond with what was said about them makes them goods of a different kind from those he had agreed to buy . |
| 8 | She was right about them letting me out . |
| 9 | I look at their mouths and their hands , put on a prim expression and think about them having me in bed . |
| 10 | There 's usually just enough rightness about them to make you feel guilty but not quite enough to stop one feeling resentful and baffled as well . |
| 11 | But you never hear them er about them do you ? |
| 12 | But if you 're really pissed , you do n't care about them do you , eh ? |
| 13 | Zeolite and many of the resins become fully charged and must be soaked in salt water , or better still have a steady trickle of salt water running to waste through them to recharge them . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't think there have been any new developments since yesterday morning , but I 'll run through them to keep you up to date . ’ |
| 15 | I do n't mind Come Up and See Me being released ; God willing it will go high enough for them to invite me on Top Of The Pops ! |
| 16 | It had seemed an impossible dream at the time ; but to have an impossible dream was a harmless comfort , and their love and respect for Rabbi Moishe made it difficult for them to grudge him their co-operation . |
| 17 | ‘ Local authorities have an independent responsibility from 1 April and it is less than satisfactory for them to say they will pay the same rates as central government , ’ he said . |
| 18 | It 's alright for them to say we 're gon na do this and |
| 19 | But I mean we also , we , I mean we 're providing a service for them to allow them to come on off the street , use the bus , right , but at the same time were trying to provide services for them because one of the things that came out in a consultation was , young people did n't feel that there was enough information for them in the town . |
| 20 | Though arrested in Denmark , Britain , France and Spain for narcotics and arms offences , al-Kassar had made himself too valuable an asset to European and American intelligence agencies for them to allow him to go to waste in prison , so that he went about his illegal business with a brazen assurance matched only among international criminals by his partner , Rifat Assad , younger brother of the Syrian president , who also owned a villa outside Marbella , and whose daughter , Raja , was al-Kassar 's mistress . |
| 21 | The majority of women do undertake paid work in their later middle life , and it can be just as wrenching for them to leave it as for men . |
| 22 | I have discussed it with Dorothy Tomkin I think we have a genuine desire to move to a more authority-based planning system , erm , we have n't got the methods of doing that yet , and I turn to C B S and to local authority and to the traditional carers for them to join us in that . |
| 23 | I paid 100 pesos for them to tidy her up and put her in a 900 peso coffin on which I paid a 200 peso deposit . |
| 24 | Needless to say , they have sound commercial reasons for putting this clause in their warranties — if you damage the machine trying to install some extra SIMMs , for example , it 's expensive for them to fix it . |
| 25 | Jim did not seem to be there enough for them to talk it through and neither of them had any money . |
| 26 | But there I am , waiting for them to give me the okay . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ All it tells us is he must 've had a foreign accent for them to give him a name like that . |
| 28 | For them to give you the service you want they need to know about your ideas and any suggestions and comments you may have to ensure the best possible service . |
| 29 | for them to give you this kind of service ! |
| 30 | ‘ There is no need for them to slaughter me . |