Example sentences of "[prep] [indef pn] they [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean to tell me , ’ Mrs Wilson interrupted , ‘ that you went round every secretarial agency in London asking about someone they might have employed fourteen years before , someone who most likely had changed her name , and you expected to succeed ? ’ |
| 2 | Russian designers have certainly taken advantage of anything they could learn from the West . |
| 3 | Therefore it is only natural for the sponsors to indulge in a little nepotism and provide its Japanese audience with somebody they can identify with while they are enjoying a nightcap . |
| 4 | The compartment was fitted out with everything they would need to live there for ever . |
| 5 | Terran employees who still had the faculty of independent mobility fled , understandably , with everything they could lay their hands on . |
| 6 | They built this vast Gothic castle , a sort of Highland fortress , only gargantuan , and filled it with everything they could think of , to show off . |
| 7 | The spacious boot coped admirably with everything they could cram into it in one week — picnic hampers , the weekly shopping , even the latest buys from Sue 's visits to the garden centre . |
| 8 | It is in this prayerful meditation that mystics say that they receive an illumination of the reality of God over and above anything they can reach by their own efforts . |
| 9 | Erlich had offered to help them with anything they might shout for , and he had been turned down . |
| 10 | Does , does it call into question the fact that that was really what the peasants did think and believe , or were the peasants opportunists , and if they felt they could get away with anything they would get away with anything ? |
| 11 | Radio in Zambia broadcast not only in English but also in seven Zambian languages ; therefore , unlike television and most newspapers , it was able to communicate with a large proportion of the people in their own language or at least in one they could understand . |
| 12 | I think people were just dying to seize upon anything they could find . |
| 13 | They fought over everything they could think of to fight over they were really niggly ! |
| 14 | There are other people who only work by consensus , but once they 've agreed to something they 'll do it very effectively . |
| 15 | She wants to catch up on everything they can teach her about themselves , because then she can learn about herself . |
| 16 | Christians , too , look to Abraham as the father of all those who depend in faith on God rather than on anything they can do for themselves ( see Romans 4:16 ) . |
| 17 | In that match I feel we would gain some consolationf from having 11 corners and maybe want to see the moves leading up to those … as they did nt amount to anything they may have just shown the ‘ dangerous ’ attacks . |
| 18 | The Great Lakes area , for instance , is infested with zebra mussels , which stick to anything they can get their suckers on , while certain waters in the Gulf of Mexico suffer from clinging sea grasses . |
| 19 | Each time the Collective Ghost clutches at someone they must make a successful WP test or suffer the same effect ; if they are already suffering from despair , the effect lasts an extra D10 turns . |
| 20 | Thus , though more than 20 per cent of people are in fact likely to use mail order , it is very unlikely that mail order would ever occur to more than 20 per cent of people as a potential source of credit when they were ( say ) standing in front of a shop window looking at something they would like to buy . |
| 21 | Then Radio One discovered the song , and soon the nation was full of people declaring their over-sexiness for anything they could think of . |
| 22 | And a witness told how he had seen looters running through evacuated apartments hunting for anything they could carry away . |
| 23 | If we had a union worth anything they 'd look into it . ’ |