Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd had ideas about them buying somewhere of their own , but so far they 'd had to stay as ideas . |
| 2 | Do n't worry about them coming out on strike . |
| 3 | Most people here would be very worried if information about them turned up in Greece , or in other European Community countries , based upon suspicion . |
| 4 | The subjective impressions which RHA managers formed on their visit to the hospitals while they were deciding what to do about them has continually to be borne in mind . |
| 5 | It visited chiefs , and worked through them to find out about local resources , tools , apprenticeship patterns and market locations . |
| 6 | They often think that if their flying is good enough , it is safe for them to press on in any weather conditions . |
| 7 | ‘ But it does n't seem right for them to drive about like that , ’ said Sister Dew . |
| 8 | These remained the concerns of Belorussian peasants in the 1920s , but unlike French peasants there were no small-scale politics for them to latch on to in order to climb slowly out of their deep provincialism . |
| 9 | We were waiting for them to turn up at Hamish and Tone 's but they never showed . |
| 10 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 11 | In fact the channelling of reports and dissertations towards educationally productive goals is merely part of a wider and far more important issue , that of establishing a new climate of opinion among teachers and those who train them which regards enquiry about the learners and the environment in which they learn as an important part of a teacher 's professional life , which seeks to develop interests and provide skills for them to do so as part of their training and retraining and which rewards initiatives undertaken in college and subsequently . |
| 12 | Bankers do not make it easier for them to do so by , for example , facilitating the transfer of standing payment orders . |
| 13 | The welfare state therefore acts as a ceiling over the heads of those on low incomes , making it difficult for them to move up through their own efforts . |
| 14 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 15 | It was a bit of a squash but he did n't seem to mind and I 'd put on a tape of golden oldies ( stuff from around 1985 ) for them to sing along to . |
| 16 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 17 | And thirdly , his world contained a great number of Christian knights , professional warriors , lords of unrule : if he could but find a holy cause , a just war , God 's war , for them to engage in outside the frontiers of Europe , what might they not achieve , what peace might not come to Christendom ? |
| 18 | Walking with his gauche , bouncy tread , his shoulders hunched , Nicola 's husband led Blanche and Dexter down the steps into the kitchen and gestured for them to sit down round the kitchen table . |
| 19 | For example , if it is costly for firms to hire more labour or adjust their capital stock it will be optimal for them to spread out over time their response to any relative price signals they receive . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 21 | This sets out the draft proposals and erm will after this meeting go to all members of the Council for them to go through with a toothcomb as well as you . |
| 22 | Many elderly people do this each year if it is not suitable for them to go away with their family , and they understand the need those who are caring for them have for a complete break . |
| 23 | Initially , all that is required of volunteers is for them to go along to a clinic where a small sample of blood is taken . |
| 24 | A couple of tins of peas left out , try and find a space for them to go back in again . |
| 25 | Anyway they said what else would they like and they had some , a set of luggage , well it 's only this nylon stuff but it was very useful for them to take away with them it did a bit of good the and I , I put in this letter I shall no longer order , I shall what was it ? |
| 26 | But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute . |
| 27 | The advertising for them talked scathingly of ‘ one-car captivity ’ . |
| 28 | The 1957 White Paper confirmed in their minds that the decline in British power had reached a point where the concerted pressure of world opinion , particularly in the United Nations , would throw the door wide open for them to walk through into their heritage of immediate rather than prudently timed independence . |
| 29 | Should they die beyond the Rante , then their shamans , the stories went , could quicken their corpses long enough for them to walk home under their own steam , even without their heads . |
| 30 | Their closeness was less due to their nearness in age — though with only eighteen months between them it had been easy for them to grow up with similar interests and shared confidences — than to the fact that neither of their parents had ever made much of them . |