Example sentences of "[prep] they and [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Mother Superior and the nun were thinking the child was odd , it was nothing to what Millie was thinking about them and her introduction to the school and its inmates . |
| 2 | They helped build Kuwait and they know about Kuwait and we know about them and we trust each other . |
| 3 | And lo , the angel of the Lord came upon them , and the glory of the Lord shone round about them and they were sore afraid . |
| 4 | Like Spike Milligan , his jokes are very hard to explain — it 's difficult to say what exactly is funny about them and they do n't read well if you write them down . |
| 5 | Ask officials at the DSD secretariat in Bonn about them and they shrug , ‘ It 's a legal requirement , so the costs are not important . ’ |
| 6 | These have something of the character and purpose of propaganda about them and they therefore need cautious exegesis , but they at least manifest the king 's view of his subjects ' expectations and in doing so reveal the model to which he felt he should conform . |
| 7 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 8 | Since she had been secretary to a bishop ( she learnt to type by trial and error ) , and also chauffeur to a bishop ( she learnt to drive by trial and error ) , she knew a lot of the clergy and their wives and had visited them all over the diocese , often in the black-out , and sat with the wives while the husbands talked to Bishop Owen , so she was good at remembering about them and their children and found the wives of the clergy to be fun . |
| 9 | I can hardly remember why I stopped going out with some of my exes but that does n't mean that I brood about them and their later and surely unsatisfactory relationships with men unable to hold a candle to myself . |
| 10 | Your knowledge about them and their likely responses gives you power . |
| 11 | In acknowledging other people 's active status , by finding out about them and their personal lives through informal socialising regardless of overt status , it 's possible to learn and understand a great deal . |
| 12 | Moreover , problems can be like Chinese whispers : the parents may be quite surprised at what you have been told about them and their problems . |
| 13 | But in general , parents love their daughters , and are very concerned about them and their welfare . |
| 14 | ‘ We created a virtuous circle , ’ said Lockett , ‘ since the act of instituting the questionnaire in itself demonstrated to clients that we cared about them and their requirements . ’ |
| 15 | There 's only the castle grounds that 's a park in the city centre you 've got to pay a quid to go in there on Saturdays and Sundays and I think these trees really matter I am concerned and I 'm going to ask questions about them and I will talk to David about it as well although the leaf stem he can keep himself . |
| 16 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 17 | people keep telling me about them and I do n't seem to write them down , I probably |
| 18 | got ta got ta royal visit coming up he said you 've worked at the Scottish Office do you know anything about them and I said yes tell the Scottish Office they 'll do all the a Royal navy one I 've got to do it I said fine when is it ? |
| 19 | I asked him er about them and he says his mate always uses them and he says they 're right good . |
| 20 | Conceptually , it is hoped that some light will be thrown on the whole question of disciplinary boundaries or subjects ; these are the bricks out of which the whole educational edifice is constructed and yet we know little about them and there are those who doubt their very existence . |
| 21 | Time and again he fell in love with young men who had nothing effeminate about them and who , though temporarily involved in a bisexual life , did not share Minton 's inversion and could not on any long-term basis return his love . |
| 22 | They think we should breed lambs off them and we do n't do that because they are too young to stand the environment , ’ Mr Hartley said . |
| 23 | She said her lines with the sour taste of sickness in her mouth , but got through them and her exit creditably . |
| 24 | There had been copper dragons and dragons painted on porcelain so fine that light filtered through them and their colours seemed to change as you looked . |
| 25 | Scores of people have been through them and their marginal jottings and exclamations are reminders of those who searched and those who found . |
| 26 | What I think would be nice is if , if one or two people from each group came and laid claim to some of these things and we went through them and we sort of read them out loud because it 's a bit hard to read there , and we 'll see what Bob 's view is on this and . |
| 27 | It was the first time he 'd bothered to read through them and he found much useful material for his hobby of persecuting Gina . |
| 28 | through them and you make sure you 've got them all down O K ? |
| 29 | And I went through them and I I narrowed it down to three things now . |
| 30 | oh yeah the people , matey 's walking along and he 's going like this and he 's pulling it as he 's doing it , he says and he 's doing it in proper time like that , but with one arm going he 's twiddling it , he 's doing it , he says no my feet are exactly like that , very effective but you can actually get fined for loosing them , you have to pay for them and its like a real , shooting sticks as well , you do n't tend to carry erm , these pay sticks you carry them like the old shooting sticks , the old you know ? |