Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun pl] [verb] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get concessions for juniors do they have to be members and get tickets in advance ? |
| 2 | Carpets , tiles and flooring , the Steamatic helps revive all sorts of surfaces leaving them more hygienic , cleaner and brighter . |
| 3 | It advises the reader not to leave their bedroom window at night because all sorts of pitfalls await them ; crocodiles , ghosts , monsters . |
| 4 | It appears that policemen and women the world over have similar views about their job and agree on what aspects of police work they like and dislike . |
| 5 | We keep animals in pens to fatten them . |
| 6 | Barber argues that the knowledge and skills of professionals provide them with considerable power and it is therefore essential for the well-being of society that this power be used for the benefit of all . |
| 7 | In addition to using casual workers to man up for " events " , we also found cases of organisations bringing them in to cope with peaks in what might be termed their " more continuous " activities . |
| 8 | In some cases groups of villagers rented them , in others local landowners and in others again merchants , who took them on a speculative basis ( 209 , p.282 ) . |
| 9 | Their pilgrimage is a flight from the malignant dwarf , Quilp , and the novel alternates an account of their progress with the attempts of others to trace them , for good reasons ( Kit Nubbles and Nell 's great-uncle ) or bad ( Quilp and his accomplices , the Brasses ) . |
| 10 | Such rulers could defend the social order by force assuredly ; but by replacing the moral authority of the totem-father with the force of arms and the ingenuities of police control they ran the risk of invalidating the purely psychological and religious prohibitions which had supported the old order and had so successfully promoted human social advancement . |
| 11 | Bangkok is well supplied with ‘ shooting galleries ’ where pushers go down lines of addicts giving them all a fix with the same needle . |
| 12 | Bernard Arenson , Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs , claimed that the relaxation had been made to assist the poor in Haiti who had suffered unduly from the effects of sanctions depriving them of jobs and wages . |
| 13 | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ) and the Western European Union ( WEU ) agreed on Nov. 20 to support the UN resolution by adopting powers to stop and search any ships entering or leaving Yugoslav waters , with warships being allowed if necessary to fire across the bows of vessels to force them to stop . |
| 14 | Some people say certain responses in others make them see red and they are guaranteed to be upset , even though for the sake of peace they may repress their anger or hurt . |
| 15 | By the end of September 1990 , the network of IDS Advisers on Enterprise and Education had undertaken a cumulative total of 5,534 visits to employers to persuade them to offer work experience to school pupils and appropriate short-term placements for teachers . |
| 16 | Here are soldiers and sailors , with troops of acquaintances to see them off . |
| 17 | The Department of Transport estimates that before belts were compulsory , only about a third of people in the front seats of cars wore them . |
| 18 | In the early 1900s buyers of firms guessed they could raise cash flows through economies of scale and by limiting competition . |
| 19 | If they get there the men plot all kinds of strategies to get them out of such posts . |
| 20 | The figs themselves are hardly bigger than acorns , but there are huge quantities of them and all kinds of animals find them irresistible . |
| 21 | The bright colours of flowers make them conspicuous from considerable distances . |
| 22 | The locks the Minoans fitted to their doors were little more than wooden bolts with pegs to hold them in place . |
| 23 | They will also be distributed to youth organisations and to youth workers in parishes to encourage them to press for more appropriate TV programming . |
| 24 | However , it was a shaky start for the Lions today with four sparkling tries from threequarters helping them to salvage a victory . |
| 25 | Puffing our experiences and views into words gives them meaning and enables us to feel confident and in control . |
| 26 | Houses have been bought by local builders with plans to restore them , though in many such cases very little work is actually done . |
| 27 | Speakers at the conference also criticized the Department of the Environment for not providing local authorities with funds to enable them to track down offenders . |
| 28 | One fundamental difference between junior and adult fiction is that many ( in certain periods , most ) writers for children feel they must tell their readers what they want them to know or to feel . |
| 29 | Secondly , the letters in Cubist painting always have some associative value ; in Picasso 's Ma Jolie series the words , from the title of a popular song , relate through their musical connotations to the still lifes with musical instruments and paintings of figures playing them . |
| 30 | Senada and her children , Mevlida ( 16 ) , Sanel ( 15 ) , Saliha ( 12 ) and Jasmina ( 11 ) , now have changes of clothes to see them through the week , cash in their pockets , and the run of Bob 's kitchen and store-cupboards , which were pre-stocked with macaroni and pasta for their arrival . |